Soaked Baked Oatmeal
Soaked Baked Oatmeal is easy, nutritious and a great breakfast hot from the oven or cold, cut up into bars. We love this for breakfast especially in the winter, but I have also used this for breakfast in the car as we head out on a trip.
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I like to soak my oats as it makes them more digestable by reducing the phytic acid in the oats. Oats as well as other grains, nuts, and legumes have high amounts of phytic acid. Phytic acid is an inhibitor of some of our important digestive enzymes. It binds itself to different minerals, like magnesium, calcium, iron, and zinc, which then become indigestible to your body. As a result, if we eat diets high in phytic acid, the nutritional value of our food declines.
Soaked Baked Oatmeal
The night before mix into a glass bowl:
- 4 cups oatmeal (regular oatmeal NOT quick oats)
- 1 cup yogurt
- 4 cups water
Mix them, cover them and let them soak overnight.
In the morning mix together:
- 6 eggs
- 3/4 cup raw honey or pure maple syrup (if you want it less sweet use only 1/2 cup)
- 1/2 coconut oil or butter melted
- 2 t. vanilla
- 1 T. cinnamon
- 1 T. baking powder
- frozen blueberries (these are optional, but we love these in it)
Mix everything together then add the soaked oats and mix. Lightly mix in the blueberries. Butter a 9x13 pan and pour in. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 min. Check and make sure that it is done in the middle. If it isn't done keep it in the oven until it is done. One rule of thumb is that once it is smelling really good it is done or almost done. (I learned this in my wilderness training/backpacking leadership class. We would bake bread and cake over the fire in a dutch oven on a backpacking trip, and we didn't want to keep checking the cake and letting out the heat. So when we started smelling it we knew that it was done or almost done.) If you start paying attention to this it works for most baked goods.
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