Cinnamon Banana Oats with Warm Fruit Topping
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup oats (quick or rolled, or quick steel cut varieties)
- 1 tbsp ground flaxseed
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 sliced banana or 1/4 cup apple sauce
- Pinch of salt
- 1 cup unsweetened plant milk
Apple topping
- 1 Fuji apple, thinly sliced
- 1 tsp sweetener of choice (e.g., date syrup)
- Pinch of cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
- 1 tbsp water
Preparation
Add all ingredients to a saucepan and bring to a low medium heat to simmer.
Stir the oats with a spoon or spatula as it cooks for about 3 minutes.
Remove from the stove top and top the oatmeal as desired.
If you don't like banana as a sweetener, use apple sauce instead.
Fruit topping
Thinly slice a Fuji apple.
Add the sliced apple to a pan with 1 tsp of sweetener of choice, a pinch of cinnamon, a pinch of salt, and 1 tbsp water.
Cook the apples until the liquid is absorbed and they brown.
Pour the cooked apples over the oatmeal.
