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This recipe is delicious! What a great idea. I make it every Sunday (usually a double batch to feed the family for the week). I freeze it in separate individual portion sized bags. Then we just pop it in the microwave and have a quick healthy breakfast. I typically add a little cinnamon and vanilla to the water that I add to the rice cooker. Thanks for sharing. (Another bonus is the bulgur – I’m a new fan).
MaryJane
My first goal with this post is to convince you to get a rice cooker.
Yes. Stay with me here.
Because my second goal is to get you to use your rice cooker to make your breakfast for you.
And then my third goal is to get you to truly enjoy steel cut oats. Because I know, like, one crazy person who actually likes a big bowl of those harsh grains, and I am not that one person. Harsh is a weird way to describe food, but do you know what I mean? They’re just… too much on their own.
So when I think delicious breakfast involving any ingredient named steel, I think of this little one: bananas, almonds, honey, steel cut oats, regular oats, AND bulgur. That’s right – triple grain! And honey-nut sweet. I’m in love.
These are the things that keep my life interesting.
Because let’s be honest – I’ve had the same breakfast oatmeal for the last five years. Somewhere deep down, I really do want to branch out in the oats department. But I have a hard time letting go of things like pumpkin oats, apple cinnamon bran oats, and Lord help me, double chocolate oats.
That’s why I kept the regular oats in this rice cooker breakfast combo. They make it familiarly (wow – really? spell check counts that as a word?) soft and fluffy, while the bulgur gives a little texture and nutty flavor and the steel cut brings the … whatever steel cut is supposed to bring.
But if steel cut is not your thing AT ALL, and you can’t even fathom the thought of mixing it together with a few other grains and topping it with the most heavenly sweet, crunchy-nutty goodness, you can still do this! Remember my primarily goal for this post? To encourage you to get a rice cooker to make your breakfast for you. Ohhyeah.
This can work with any kind of grains! I’ve used rolled oats with wheat berries, bulgur with steel cut, quick oats with, um, brown rice. Cause it’s a rice cooker and cause I love carbs.
You don’t even need a recipe for this. You just need to choose some grains, dump ’em in, and turn on your rice cooker to make a perfectly cozy and filling breakfast for you.
Okay? Okay.
Honey Nut Steel Cut Oats
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
Description
A simple recipe for steel cut oats made easily in a rice cooker and topped with banana, honey, and almonds. Perfect breakfast!
Ingredients
- 1 cup steel cut oats
- 1 cup quick cooking oatmeal (or rolled oats – doesn’t really matter)
- 1/2 cup light bulgur (dry)
- 3 1/2 cups water
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 cup milk
- honey, banana, sliced almonds, flax for topping
Instructions
- Rinse the bulgur. Place both oats and bulgur in a rice cooker with water. Add the salt, cover, and let it cook until the rice cooker switches off (mine automatically switches off when all the water is absorbed). Check oats – add more water, stir, and cook for another 5 minutes if they’re too sticky or not soft enough.
- Stir in the cinnamon and milk. Serve topped with sliced banana, sliced almonds, honey, and flax.
Notes
The nutrition information includes 1/2 a banana, 1 tablespoon honey, 2 tablespoons sliced almonds, and 2 teaspoons flaxmeal per serving. If you want, you can soften the steel cut oats by soaking them overnight. Any kinds of grains will work for this – just check the cook time on them!
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: honey oats, oatmeal recipe, steel cut oats
By the way, at home, I have this little cutie rice cooker. It’s red and tiny and awesome.
So does anyone else actually have one of these things or am I just obsessed because I live in the Philippines?
My grocery store sells bulgar by the coarseness grade (e.g. #1 – #4) and not by a “light” designation. Any idea which would be the best coarseness to use for this recipe? I’m thinking either #2 or #3 but wanted to check if you had the bulgar grade the recipe was developed with before I experimented. Thanks!
Hi Jack! We don’t recall the grade of bulgar used in this recipe, but we think something in the middle would work out well!
Thats a lot of grains -sound amazing and I want to try it BUT, how big a rice cooker are you using? Mine is a small one that i love, has two settings, cook and warm
I believe ours is at least a 6-cup rice cooker. Since the recipe serves 6, you could try scaling down the amounts to fit your rice cooker.
Thank you so much for this recipe. I’m also trying to love steel cut oats. Have been cooking them in the slow cooker. Will try this recipe in my rice cooker. Question: Can you estimate how long the first cook is in your rice cooker? Mine isn’t automatic.
I used to make this recipe all the time, but haven’t in a couple years. I always made it with wheat berries instead of steel cut oats. I think it’s time I start making it again. It’s delicious! And the rice cooker is my go-to for cooking any kind of grains.
What’s up, after reading this awesome post i am too delighted to share my experience here with friends.
This recipe is delicious! What a great idea. I make it every Sunday (usually a double batch to feed the family for the week). I freeze it in separate individual portion sized bags. Then we just pop it in the microwave and have a quick healthy breakfast. I typically add a little cinnamon and vanilla to the water that I add to the rice cooker. Thanks for sharing. (Another bonus is the bulgur – I’m a new fan).
I appreciate you listing the nutritional value, but I didn’t see what the serving size of the oatmeal is? It is very good. Thank you!
I am totally on the steel cut train! Every morning I do a bowl of steel cut with chia, flax, and hemp seeds, a big dollop of yogurt and some maple syrup. I look forward to it every morning and could care less that it takes up way more of my daily calories than a breakfast should!
Thanks for the great post, I just discovered your blog and I’m loving it!
1Million and 1 option for rice cookers — options that do the job and are value for money. I am a Filipino and live in the islands. Where do you get your steel cut oats? I have been to SM, Ayala and S&R but could not find one. Am trying healthy options one of these days. I meant to feed my new solid eater with oats. Thanks and I enjoy your site.
Rustan’s! š š I found them at the one in Banawa.
Delish! If you don’t have a rice cooker, get one. I have a nice little cheapie ($20) and just tried making steel cut oats for the first time and it worked beautifully. Dolloped some yogurt and fruit on it and was in heaven. My Asian-American friend encouraged me to get a rice cooker and it’s great. I’ve cooked quinoa, winter berries, as well as rice in it. Makes live so much easier š If something needs more time, just add the same amount of water you did the first time and cook again for the same time you did before … works well.
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Thanks Kathy! š
My brother and I are filipino… we’re going to try putting coco jam on this. š
Awesome! I just bought some delicious coco jam from Bohol Bee Farm… it’s this all organic resort/restaurant that (obviously) has bees and honey and lots of other homemade yummy things. I’ll have to give it a try!
I don’t have a rice cooker, but I was staying with a relative who did and I used it to make my morning oatmeal. Until recently I’ve been the same way- oatmeal every morning! I love the fact that you can just leave them in there and not worry about it. This looks much tastier and healthier and a certain honey-nut cereal at the grocery store š
Sold.
I am one of those weird people who likes steel cut oats! Love the combination of grains you used, I never thought to combine grains like that. I don’t have a rice cooker, but my mom does…hmm…maybe I need to “borrow” it.
Good idea! š
Oddly enough…I actually do like steel cut oats! (Bringing your tally to 2 weirdos!) I just rarely make them because they take so long, and when I want breakfast I want it NOW. I definitely have contemplated getting a rice cooker just to make breakfast-making easier (and, ya know, rice making…), and as soon as I have some money in my budget, that may just be happening. Until then, I’m definitely putting this yummy flavor profile on my oatmeal to-do list.
I have been thinking about buying one for awhile, and you gave me the push I needed.
Definitely going to make some oatmeal. Last night was the first time I used it. Great!! I added the rice, sprinkled some salt and curry powder, tossed in some chopped bell pepper and onion. So good. The rice was cooked perfectly.
I love milk rice. Sprinkled with brown sugar and cinnamon. My booklet doesn’t say anything about using milk. I know on the stovetop it can boil over very quickly. Messy! Do I dare try? š
I’m Asian, so of course I own a rice cooker. But I have never once cooked anything other than rice in it. I didn’t even know it people used it for anything else. I grew up always having a rice cooker in the house, and nothing else has been cooked in it. But what an interesting dish to make in the rice cooker. Sounds so good!
I am in love with adorable little rice cookers too. I like it in pink (my favorite color). A lot of the Korean and Japanese home appliance stores have the cutest rice cookers. I have one that talks!
Pink? Talking? This is getting fancy… I didn’t even know that existed!
I’m in the process of moving cross country so no appliance purchases right now BUT do you think a slow cooker could do the same, overnight even?
What a great idea. I like oatmeal and anything like oatmeal (as long as it has those delicious type toppings in your gorgeous photos). I will have to look into a rice cooker soon!
Just found your blog and love it! This post made me so happy — I just bought a rice cooker and am loving the rice and the steamed veggies, but this recipe sounds amazing! I had to print it out and will probably have some steel cut oats tomorrow morning.
Awesome! I’m glad you already have a rice cooker so you can get started ASAP. š
Rice cooker , check , make this recipe, double check!