No Sugar Added Baked Oatmeal

Warm and filling baked oatmeal is the perfect way to start the day. Flavorful without all the added sugar of most packaged oatmeal products. 

Printable recipe here. 

This oatmeal recipe made a great "go-to" breakfast item for my husband and I during our "no added sugar challenge (post pending)." 

I'm not going to put it out there that is this is the best recipe ever and that it's the most delicious thing I've ever eaten, and that "oh my goodness we ate every bite within the first day"... 

Cause I hate it when bloggers do that. You know? Not everything tastes wonderful and makes you want to eat every bite. Especially a recipe with no sugar. ;) 

If you are health conscious and like oatmeal, then yeah, you will actually like this recipe. It's not super sweet, but it has enough flavor to be pretty tasty. 

I highly recommend serving this with fresh of frozen berries (blueberries were wonderful) and some canned whipped topping. 

I made it one Saturday morning and my husband and I ate it for breakfast for the next week. I love not thinking about breakfast in the morning. Now that's worth bragging about. 

Wet ingredients: plain or unsweetened vanilla yogurt, applesauce, egg, unsweetened almond milk, and mashed banana. 

Dry ingredients: old fashioned oats, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice (optional). 

Use really ripe bananas, they mash the easiest!

Mix-ins! These can be basically whatever you like in oatmeal. I used shredded coconut (use non-sweetened for the no added sugar recipe), chopped pecans, and chopped walnuts. 

All mixed up and ready to bake! It takes awhile, so make sure you aren't too hungry to wait for it!

After about 20 minutes. It's drying out, but not done yet! Keep going!

Now we're talking! Nice and brown on the top and cooked through inside. 

No sugar added baked oatmeal

Ingredients: 

• 3 cups regular rolled oats or steel cut oats
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Dash of pumpkin pie spice, optional
• 1 + tsp cinnamon (I like A LOT of cinnamon)
• 2 cups unsweetened vanilla almond milk (or regular milk)
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 1/3 cup plain yogurt or sour cream
• 2 ripe bananas, mashed
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans, walnuts, or mix both
• 1 cup shredded coconut (preferably unsweetened to keep the sugar content low)
• 2 tbsp peanut butter

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Stir together rolled oats/steel cut oats, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice in a large bowl and set aside.
3. In a medium bowl, combine almond milk, egg, applesauce and yogurt/sour cream. Add milk mixture to oat mixture and stir until combined.
4. Stir in banana, pecans, coconut, and peanut butter.
5. Pour into a 3-quart casserole dish coated with non-stick spray and bake covered for 20 minutes. Remove from oven, stir mixture and bake uncovered for an additional 20 minutes, until lightly browned.
6. Spoon into bowls and enjoy. I highly suggest topping this with fresh or frozen blueberries and a tbsp. of whipped cream!! Other toppings could be maple syrup (will definitely add sugar though), peanut butter, more nuts, really whatever you can imagine.

*Recipe adapted from pbfingers.com 

Click here for printable recipe!