Towards the end of my pregnancy and throughout early motherhood, prepping breakfast has become an obsession of mine. Why? Because caring for your family at the start of the day can be a lot, and without some ready-to-grab sustenance of my own in the fridge, the most important meal of the day gets easily neglected. Cue my all-too-familiar 10am empty stomach growls. Not good.
For that reason, if I don’t have some kind of muffin, breakfast cookie, or baked oatmeal in the fridge at all times, I legit panic.
And that’s where this recipe comes into play. Prepping a batch of baked oatmeal at the beginning of the week has been a game changer for me, and when I tried out this delicious flavor combination — banana, peanut butter, cashew, cinnamon — I felt like I’d finally nailed it. My ideal healthy breakfast, in the fridge, pre-made and ready to go.
This recipe is also fantastic for serving the family breakfast on the weekend, or making for a friend. It’s pretty hard to beat fresh out of the oven, but also amazing reheated with a splash of milk (I do oat milk) in the microwave. And I sprinkle coarse finishing salt on literally everything, so yep, it goes on top of this stuff too.
These caramelized bananas! They’re everything. But you could sub with lots of other fruit of course — blueberries are a common replacement in my household. The cashews can be subbed out too. I’ve done chopped pecans, and chopped macadamia nuts too, which felt really fancy.
One Bowl Baked Banana Cashew Oatmeal
Serves 8
This Banana-Cashew Baked Oatmeal Will Make You A Believer in Breakfast Prepping
Prep
15 minutes
Cook
35 minutes
Categories
Ingredients
2 ripe bananas, sliced into circles
2 cups old-fashioned oats
½ cup cashews roughly chopped
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups oat milk
¼ cup maple syrup
1 tablespoon peanut butter
1 tablespoon honey
2 tablespoons ground flax seed
1 tablespoon coconut oil melted
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375°. Grease a medium sized baking dish, and arrange half the banana slices at the bottom of the dish.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the oats, cashews, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt. Pour mixture on top of the banana slices.
In the same mixing bowl, combine the oat milk, maple syrup, peanut butter, honey, ground flax seed, melted coconut oil, and vanilla extract. Pour on top of the mixture of dried ingredients in the baking dish and gently press down with a fork to make sure that it's evenly spread out and that the dried mixture is evenly soaked. Arrange remaining banana slices on top.
Bake uncovered for about 35 minutes. Eat immediately, or store covered in the fridge for up to a week.
Yummm I’m all about pre-prepped foods. This is gonna legit breathe new life into my morning oats, can’t wait to try!
This looks right up our alley!!! Thank you!
My husband would love this – not me though. So I will have to scale it down to a serving of two and hopefully it will be just as yummy. Thank you.