Pina Colada Steel Cut Oats
PIN IT!At about 8:05 pm last night, I got a brilliant idea. I thought “I’m going to make some crock-pot steel cut oats so I have a healthy breakfast option this week!” So I hopped into my super clean, super dreamy kitchen (*might be an exaggeration), mixed some things together in my magic ninja and set it to cook on low. And then, 20 minutes later, I went to bed because I’m 98 years old. And erm, COMPLETELY forgot about them. The magical pina colada steel cut oats sat in my crock pot for hours, cooking and probably burning and dying a horrible death while I slept 15 hours like an old woman. So, imagine my surprise when I woke up and found a batch of creamy, beautiful and delicious oats staring at my face when I opened the lid to my pot. (that sounded dirty).
Excuse the crap-tastic photo on this one. No matter what I did, I just could not get a sexy photo of it. Probably because it’s a bowl of smooshy goo? Man I’m doing a terrible job of selling this. Let me start over. THIS OATMEAL HAS RUM!
I shot these oats a total of 55 times and like none of the photos came out. I’ve been having a Julie/Julia style meltdown over it. But, you don’t care about that! You want to hear about how these oats that shouldn’t have turned out but did taste, right? Well, let’s see the best way to describe them. GOOD. BOOZY. TASTES LIKE A PINA COLADA. Really, it does. It’s amazing. Luscious, creamy, fruity and coconuty (it’s a word). It’s like you poured a frozen cocktail over oats and called it a day. And then added sprinkles of this magical stuff.
The only thing I’d recommend if you make them is to stir about halfway through. They were just a little chunky when I woke up because I didn’t stir them. And just don’t even bother trying to take photos of them b/c you’ll have 5 mental breakdowns before it’s even 9 am.
Pina Colada Steel Cut Oats
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Serves about 7. (3/4 cup servings).
Prep time: >10 minutes
Cook time: About 4 – 6 hours
Ingredients:
- 1 cup uncooked steel cut oats
- 1 1/2 cups light coconut milk
- 1/2 cup milk or light cream (we used 1% milk)
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup pineapple Chobani (nonfat)
- 2 tablespoons sugar (I used Zulka pure cane sugar)
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- About 2 1/2 tablespoons brown rum
- 2 1/2 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces
- 1/4 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
Directions:
- Add oats, coconut milk, light cream, water, chobani, sugar, cinnamon, brown rum and coconut flakes into the basin of a crock pot. Top with pieces of cut up butter.
- Turn crock pot on low and cook for about 4 1/2 – 6 hours (mine only took about 4 1/2 hours), or until oats have incorporated all of the liquid. Stir mixture every 1 1/2 hours to avoid burning and sticking.
- Serve immediately with extra coconut flakes.
Nutritional information per serving:
Calories: 232.5
Fat: 9.25 grams
Carbohydrates: 23 grams
Fiber: 2.5 grams
Protein: 5.7 grams
Weight Watchers Points: 5
Claire
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P.S. These photos are not bad at all, lady! I'm definitely drooling all over them :)
Kidding. But really, this looks ah-mazing!!!!