Amish-Style Baked Apple Berry Oatmeal

With a dish of baked oatmeal, you’ll have breakfast ready for the week! This recipe is loaded with great ingredients like oats, nuts, blueberries and apples. Unlike stove-top oats, baked oatmeal has more of a breadlike consistency. You can dress it up with a little milk or cream, or even a scoop of yogurt for a parfait style dish.

Change it up!

While we enjoy the ingredients listed below, this recipe is easily adaptable to your liking. Just add your favorite mixture of fruit and nuts! Try these combinations:

• Use raspberries and Dole Chef-Ready Cuts Sliced Bananas (#2835) topped with toasted coconut.
• Love carrot cake but watching your calorie intake? Try adding shredded carrots, pineappe and coconut.
• Mix in Jif Creamy Peanut Butter (#2913), BBF Organic Chia Seeds (#8941) and Dole Chef-Ready Cuts Sliced Bananas (#2835).

This Amish inspired baked oatmeal recipe features rolled oats, wild blueberries, diced apples and comforting spices.

Amish-Style Baked Apple Berry Oatmeal

Ingredients:

• 3 cups Honeyville Regular Rolled oats (#1068)
• 1 1/2 tsp Clabber Girl Baking Powder (#2847)
• 2 tsp AP Ground Saigon Cinnamon (#3626)
• 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
• 3/4 tsp Regal Fine Sea Salt (#1146)
• 1/2 cup real maple syrup or lightly packed C & H Brown Sugar (#2261)
• 2 1/2 cup milk
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tsp Blue Cattle Mexican Vanilla (#6702)
• 4 Tbsp Kirkland Salted Sweet Cream Butter (#1723)
• 2 1/2 cups diced fruit like a combination of Dole Chef-Ready Cuts Diced Apples (#1263) and Wyman’s Wild Blueberries (#1218)
• Nuts (optional; can add Diamond Fancy Medium Pecan Pieces #2812 or Kirkland Walnut Halves & Pieces #1293)

Instructions:

1. Lightly spray an 8X12” or 9X13” baking pan Vegalene Spray (#1212) and set aside.
2. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together the oats, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and brown sugar (if using maple syrup instead of sugar, combine with liquid ingredients).
4. In a separate bowl, whisk together the milk, eggs, and vanilla. Pour over the dry ingredients and add the melted butter. Whisk to combine.
5. Arrange the fruit evenly over the bottom of the baking dish and pour the oatmeal mixture over the top.
6. Bake for 35-45 minutes until the top is golden and the mixture is set (not very jiggly).
7. Serve warm, with a little milk or cream, if desired.

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