Buttered Pecan Oatmeal with milk and sugar in the raw
Written by joythebaker on February 28, 2008 – 12:45 am -
I’ll be the first to admit, that I’ve been breakfast obsessed lately. I fall asleep thinking about the breakfast. I wake up thinking I better hurry to the kitchen to get breakfast and tea started. I eat breakfast standing in front of my kitchen window watching my morning get brighter and brighter with the sun and listening the the morning’s news on the radio. It’s a ritual I’ve become attached to. Oatmeal is my no fail breakfast treat, and I’ve had pecans on the brain lately. This buttered pecan oatmeal is rich, earthy and filling. The warm, sweet and nutty combination would be great with fruit too- any fruit- bananas, apples, peaches, berries. It’s the kind of breakfast my dreams are made of.
Buttered Pecan Oatmeal
serves 1, but it’s a lot of filling yumminess.
For the Pecans
1 scant Tablespoon unsalted butter
1/4 cup chopped pecans
pinch of salt
For the Oatmeal
1 cup of water
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup of old-fashioned oats
sugar in the raw
milk
Melt the butter in a skillet. When butter is melted, add the chopped pecans and pinch of salt. Cook pecans, stirring often, until they are browned and fragrant. Remove from heat and set aside.
In a small saucepan, bring water to a boil, then add salt. Add the oats to the boiling water and turn flame down to low. Cook the oatmeal, stirring occasionally for about 5 minutes. Once oatmeal is sufficiently thickened, mix 1/2 of the buttered pecans mixture into the oatmeal.
Put oatmeal in a serving bowl, add the remaining buttered pecans on top, sprinkle with sugar in the raw to taste, and add milk if you’d like.
Tags: Breakfast, oatmeal, pecans, yummy
Posted in Breakfast, Recipes | 10 Comments »
sisters think alike. i have oatmeal with pumpkin seeds and dried cranberries for breakfast every morning. quite filling and keeps me satisfied well into the afternoon. delicious!
It never ceases to amaze me that I can meander in and around food sites and NOT see one as amazing as this one! You are so talented. I’m scratching my head trying to remember how I got here — something about blood oranges? Anyway, I love oatmeal and play around with what can go in it — I love chopped green apples in mine either cooked with it, or added afterwards.
YUM! this puts my instant-oatmeal-at-work-every-morning to shame. but what a great weekend treat!
Hi Joy,
I’m a student at UPenn originally from Los Angeles and I recently stumbled upon your delicious food blog! This oatmeal recipe of yours looks absolutely scrumptious and I plan on making it sometime very soon.
Tomorrow on pennappetit.blogspot.com I will be featuring this post of yours in my “Friday Blog Lovin’” feature…feel free to check it out
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That looks like a really tasty breakfast!
I have a friend coming into town this weekend and I am definitely going to serve this to her on Sunday morning! You, Joy are a food goddess!!!!
that looks so good!!! i love having a “real” breakfast, too…not just boxed cereal, and oatmeal is a favorite!
Just the name of the recipe had me hooked! I eat oatmeal every morning & adding your pecans will be an extra treat!
By the way, where did you get your lovely measuring cups? I’ve been looking for some like that for a while! And yes Joy, you are nosy (teasing)…
your recipes are fantastic, you think you can do a panini recipe? thatd be great id love to see what you prefer