Description
This pumpkin baked oatmeal is the ideal fall breakfast: cozy spiced and full of healthy oats! Bake up a pan and eat off of it all week.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups Old Fashioned rolled oats (don’t substitute steel cut or instant oats)
- 1/2 cup pecan pieces (or chopped pecans)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons Pumpkin Pie Spice (or 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves and 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg)
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 3/4 cups milk of choice (dairy, almond or oat)
- 6 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil, melted and cooled to room temp
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- For serving: 1 tablespoon coconut oil melted with 1 tablespoon maple syrup or maple Greek yogurt*
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.*
- Butter an 8 x 8″ or 9 x 9″ pan. In a medium bowl, mix together the rolled oats, pecan pieces, baking powder, pumpkin spice, and kosher salt.
- Dump the dries into the prepared pan.
- In the same bowl, whisk together the pumpkin puree, milk, maple syrup, melted cooled coconut oil, and vanilla. Drizzle the milk mixture over the oats. Stir lightly with a fork to make everything gets evenly incorporated.
- Bake 40 to 45 minutes until the top is nicely golden and the oat mixture has set. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for about 10 minutes.
- Before serving, drizzle with maple syrup OR add maple Greek yogurt* plus a drizzle of maple. Store leftovers refrigerated for up to 1 week: reheat in a 300 degree oven or microwave until warm.
Notes
*For the maple Greek yogurt, mix 1/2 cup Greek yogurt with 1 tablespoon maple syrup and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. Make sure to still add a small drizzle of maple over the top when serving.
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegan
