A delicious fruit and nut oatmeal with an assortment of nuts and dry and fresh fruits.
First things first, this is not really my own recipe, nor is it really a recipe because does oatmeal qualify as one? But it's a post I've been meaning to put up for a while now because someone wise once said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
At our home I make most meals, but Desi zealously keeps charge of breakfast. That's because he has a Seinfeldian love for cereal, and at any time you can find a dozen different kinds in our pantry. Not cheerios mind you, but healthy ones with words like "multigrain" and "wholegrain" and "bran" in their names
Every morning, or sometimes even in the afternoon if he happened to eat something else for breakfast, Desi will pull out a huge bowl, mix four different kinds of cereal in it (for their different textures), and then chop up a melange of fruit and nuts to add to it.
Over all of that he will pour some vanilla soymilk and then take 15 minutes to enjoy every bite, usually with the morning paper.
It's something I, as someone who has never fallen in love with cold cereal, simply do not get. Ergo, Desi simply does not trust me to get it right.
But on weekends, oatmeal usually replaces the cereal and that is where I get interested. What's not to love about oatmeal for breakfast? Kissed with golden maple syrup and crunchy with sunflower seeds, Desi's healthy and delicious oatmeal is the perfect start to the weekend. It contains 7.5 grams of dietary fiber, about a fourth of your daily requirement, and 6.6 grams of protein, besides a ton of other nutrients like potassium, vitamins, folate, magnesium, manganese, thiamin and zinc. Good stuff.
Try these vegan breakfast recipes next:
- Vegan Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal
- The Best Vegan Scones
- Vegan Buckwheat Waffles
- Sourdough Skillet Pancake
- Vegan Double Chocolate Pancakes
This recipe makes two Desi-sized servings because he likes his breakfast huge. But about a fourth is just right for me.
Desi's Fruit and Nut Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 banana (cut into coins)
- 6 almonds (chopped)
- 6 walnut halves (chopped)
- 6 pecan halves
- 1 Brazil nut (chopped)
- 2 tablespoon blueberries (fresh or dried)
- 2 dried apricots (minced)
- 1 dried fig (minced)
- 1 date (minced)
- 2 prunes
- 1 tablespoon sunflower seeds (raw, unsalted)
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin seeds (raw, unsalted)
- 2 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 cup nondairy milk (oatmilk or soymils are great here)
Instructions
- Mix the oatmeal with 2 cups of water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Lower the heat to a simmer and cook about 5 minutes or until very creamy. When the oatmeal has thickened, add the soymilk, stir together and warm through, then turn off the heat.
- Divide the oatmeal into two bowls and divide equal amounts of the remaining ingredients between the two bowls. Stir well and eat hot.
Vaishali
David, thank you. Fresh figs and dates would be wonderful, but as you guessed we don't usually get those here and when we do they are often prohibitively expensive. Sounds delicious, though.
David
Hi, great site, fabulous recipes. Aside from the seeds, this oatmeal is virtually identical to what we make -- same fruits, most of the same nuts. (Of course, we couldn't couldn't come up with any of your dinner recipes in a million years.) One difference is we use fresh figs and dates rather than dried ones. But we live in Santa Monica; i realize it's more difficult to get fresh figs and dates in other parts of the country. Thanks again for all your recipes. David