Pumpkin Pecan Baked Steel Cut Oats

These pumpkin pecan baked steel cut oats taste like pumpkin pie filling, but they’re a healthy breakfast to start your morning with whole grains.

Would you believe we’ve never cooked steel cut oats until this recipe? I know, I know. We drink Chemex coffee and eat quinoa and wear Chambray shirts, yet our breakfast game has yet to be revolutionized by steel cut oats. Well, consider us steel cut oat virgins no more, because we’re now fans.

Steel cut oats are nothing like normal rolled oats. In fact, they’re a chewy whole grain like this freaky one. Not what we were expecting. However, when baked up in a custard-y”filling”, they’re absolutely delicious. Our idea for this recipe was to combine they chewiness of steel cut oats with the velvety, spiced-up goodness of pumpkin pie. Luckily it worked like a charm (and not all our kitchen experiments do!). After cooling, the oatmeal sets up and can be cut into squares for devouring. To me, it tasted just like a light version of pumpkin pie. And who doesn’t want to eat pumpkin pie for breakfast? It’s also fairly healthy, with a minimal amount of maple syrup as a natural sweetener, it’s a nice gluten-free whole grain option for the morning.

We created this recipe as part of an internet-wide celebration of pumpkin recipes in honor of October! Check out this list of links for friends around the web and their recipes. The recipe was also created in partnership with Bob’s Red Mill, one of our very favorite whole grain companies. We’d love to hear: are you a newbie to steel cut oats? Would you try this recipe? And if you did, what did you think?

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This Pumpkin Pecan Baked Steel Cut Oatmeal is sponsored by Bob’s Red Mill. All opinions are our own; we’re huge fans of their products and use them often. Thank you for supporting the sponsors who keep A Couple Cooks in action! 

Looking for more healthy pumpkin recipes?

• Pumpkin Goat Cheese Baked Gnocchi
• Pumpkin Sage Stuffed Shells
• Pumpkin Pie Mousse Shooters
• Pumpkin Oatmeal
• Easy Pumpkin Hummus
• Pumpkin Frozen Yogurt

This recipe is…

Vegetarian and gluten-free.

Pumpkin Pecan Baked Steel Cut Oats

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• Author: a Couple Cooks
• Prep Time: 10 minutes
• Cook Time: 60 minutes
• Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
• Yield: 6 to 8
• Category: Breakfast
• Method: Baked
• Cuisine: American

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These pumpkin pecan baked steel cut oats taste like pumpkin pie filling, but they’re a healthy breakfast to start your morning with whole grains.

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Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 2 cups milk (or almond milk)
• ⅓ cup maple syrup
• 3/4 cup pumpkin puree
• 2 tablespoons melted butter, slightly cooled
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon ground ginger
• ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 cup raw steel cut oats
• 1/2 cup pecans, chopped

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Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375ºF.
2. Grease a 9 x 9 baking dish.
3. In a medium bowl, lightly beat the egg. Whisk it together with the milk, maple syrup, pumpkin puree, melted butter, and vanilla. In a small bowl, mix together the spices, baking powder, and kosher salt. Whisk to combine the spices and baking powder into the wet ingredients, then stir in the raw steel cut oats. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan.
4. Cover the pan loosely with foil and bake in the center of the oven for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, chop the pecans. At 30 minutes, uncover the pan and sprinkle with pecans. Bake an additional 30 minutes until golden brown (60 minutes total).
5. Serve hot, scooped into bowls, or let cool completely to room temperature and cut into squares for serving. You also can refrigerate and serve cold, which is our favorite way to eat it!

Keywords: baked steel cut oats, health steel cut oats recipe

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Sonja Overhiser

Cookbook Author and writer

Sonja Overhiser is author and recipe developer of Pretty Simple Cooking, named one of the “best vegetarian cookbooks” by Epicurious, and a recipe developer and healthy & sustainable food advocate behind the award-nominated food blog A Couple Cooks.

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Alex Overhiser

Cookbook Author and photographer

Alex Overhiser is photographer and recipe developer of Pretty Simple Cooking, named one of the “best new cookbooks” by Bon Appetit, and a recipe developer, photographer, and technical expert at A Couple Cooks.

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