Banana Bread Oatmeal - recipes for breakfast

Ingredients

3 cups fat-free milk

3 tablespoons firmly packed brown sugar

3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

2 cups quick or old-fashioned oats, uncooked

2 medium-size ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 cup)

2 to 3 tablespoons coarsely chopped toasted pecans*

Vanilla non-fat yoghurt (optional)

Banana slices (optional)

Pecan halves (optional)

 

Recipe

• In medium saucepan, bring milk, brown sugar, spices and salt to a gentle boil (watch carefully); stir in oats.
• Return to a boil; reduce heat to medium.
• Cook 1 minute for quick oats, 5 minutes for old-fashioned oats, or until most of liquid is absorbed, stirring occasionally.
• Remove oatmeal from heat.
• Stir in mashed bananas and pecans.
• Spoon oatmeal into four cereal bowls.
• Top with yoghurt, sliced bananas and pecan halves, if desired.

 

* To toast pecans, spread evenly in shallow baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 5 to 7 minutes or until light golden brown.

 

 

 

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