Recipes with oats
12 easy recipes with oats, our top pick and practical tips for cooking with oats.
Cooking with oats
Oats make a cheap, filling breakfast and a useful baking ingredient. Several recipes here need no cooking at all, and half of them are ready in 15 minutes or less.
This page has 12 recipes with oats: 7 breakfasts and 5 desserts. 8 are ready in 30 minutes or less, and the quickest is Apple Yogurt Overnight Oats at 5 minutes. In these recipes, oats most often go with milk, yogurt and bananas.
Short on time? Try Apple Yogurt Overnight Oats (5 min), Banana Peanut Oat Bowl (7 min) and Cinnamon Apple Skillet Oats (10 min).
Berry Overnight Oats
Five minutes of mixing the night before gives you breakfast ready in the fridge: rolled oats, milk, yogurt, honey, chia seeds and berries. No stove, no oven, and it travels in a jar.
Tips for oats
- Rolled oats keep their texture in overnight oats and baking. Quick oats absorb liquid faster and can turn soft.
- Oats are the base of crunchies and crumble toppings, mixed with butter and sugar.
- Blend oats with banana, eggs and milk for pancakes that need no flour.
- Store oats in an airtight container in a cool, dry cupboard. Oats keep for months unopened, but use an opened bag within a few months, before they start to smell stale.
- Toast oats in a dry pan for a few minutes for a nuttier flavour in crumbles and toppings.
All recipes with oats
Banana Oat Pancakes
Banana Oat Pancakes recipe with banana, oats, and eggs. A simple 20-minute breakfast with clear, step-by-step instructions.
Berry Overnight Oats
Berry Overnight Oats recipe with oats, milk, and yogurt. A simple 5-minute breakfast with clear, step-by-step instructions.
Apple Cinnamon Baked Oats
Apple Cinnamon Baked Oats recipe with oats, apples, and eggs. A simple 35-minute breakfast with clear, step-by-step instructions.
Apple Yogurt Overnight Oats
Apple Yogurt Overnight Oats recipe with oats, apple, and yogurt. A simple 5-minute breakfast with clear, step-by-step instructions.
Banana Peanut Oat Bowl
Banana Peanut Oat Bowl recipe with oats, banana, and peanut butter. A simple 7-minute breakfast with clear, step-by-step instructions.
Berry Yogurt Crumble Cups
Berry Yogurt Crumble Cups recipe with oats, yogurt, and berries. A simple 15-minute dessert with clear, step-by-step instructions.
Chocolate Banana Oat Cups
Chocolate Banana Oat Cups recipe with banana, oats, and cocoa powder. A simple 25-minute dessert with clear, step-by-step instructions.
Cinnamon Apple Skillet Oats
Cinnamon Apple Skillet Oats recipe with oats, apple, and cinnamon. A simple 10-minute breakfast with clear, step-by-step instructions.
Peanut Butter Cocoa Bites
Peanut Butter Cocoa Bites recipe with oats, peanut butter, and cocoa powder. A simple 10-minute dessert with clear, step-by-step instructions.
Apple Crumble
Classic apple crumble with cinnamon apples under a crisp oat and brown sugar topping. Serves 6.
Crunchies
Easy South African crunchies: golden oat and coconut bars. Makes 20 in 35 minutes.
No-Knead Seed Loaf
Easy South African seed loaf with whole-wheat flour, oats and seeds. No kneading and no rising time. Makes 1 loaf.
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