I love making simple and healthy plant-based breakfasts that you can meal prep. I’m busy in the morning so I don’t always have time to make a complicated recipe. This quinoa bake can be made on a Sunday for a whole week of healthy brekkies. This breakfast quinoa bake is a sweet one-pan breakfast made of quinoa, banana, and berries. Like vegan baked oatmeal, such as my High Protein Baked Oats or Strawberry Baked Oatmeal, it’s packed with protein and slow-release carbs but it’s 100% gluten-free.
Ingredients and Substitutions
Uncooked Quinoa – you can use any quinoa variety including white quinoa or red quinoa or a combination of both. Bananas – ripe bananas add a delicious sweet flavor but yellow bananas work. Peanut Butter – Use natural peanut butter for added proteins or any vegan yogurt you like. You can also decrease saturated fat by using almond butter or sun butter as a nut-free option. Chia Seeds – this is a key ingredient both for its nutritional profile and to make the bake hold together. Maple Syrup – I prefer classic maple syrup but any other liquid sweetener such as coconut nectar or brown rice syrup. It’s optional if you don’t want to add sugar to the baked quinoa oatmeal. Cinnamon – for flavor. Salt – optional if peanut butter is salted. Vanilla Extract – for flavor. Berries – frozen berries or fresh berries like strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, or boysenberries Warm Almond Milk – or oat milk for a nut-free option.
Add-Ons
You can tweak this recipe to create a range of breakfast flavors by adding some different fruits. For example, swap the berries for:
Diced Mango – and use coconut milk for a tropical breakfast. Chopped Apples – and boost cinnamon to turn this into an apple cinnamon quinoa bake with fall flavors.
You can also add some of the below ingredients to boost:
Sweetness – stir in 1/3 cup of dark chocolate chips and sprinkle a few more on top of the dish before baking. Protein – stir in 2 to 3 tablespoons of your favorite plant-based vanilla protein powder or powdered peanut butter. Texture – stir in 1/3 cup of shredded coconut or chopped almonds or pumpkin seed for a little crunch.
How To Make Quinoa Breakfast Bake
To make this 1-pan quinoa bake you need:
Serving
Slice the recipe into squares and serve in a porridge bowl topped with some of the following topping ideas:
Drizzle of Maple Syrup Extra Berries Almond Milk Chopped Nuts like peanut or almonds Shredded Coconut Chocolate Chips Peanut Butter
How Does It Taste?
This recipe tastes like baked quinoa oatmeal minus the oats, of course, but it has a similar moist texture with fruity flavors that I love in baked oatmeal recipes. The quinoa is very fulfilling and adds a delicious nutty flavor to the dish.
Allergy Swaps
I listed some ideas to make this recipe if you have some of the allergies below. Feel free to adapt this berry quinoa breakfast bake based on your food allergies.
Nut-Free – Swap the peanut butter for vegan yogurt or sun butter. Also, replace the almond milk with coconut milk or oat milk. Sugar-Free – You can skip the added sweetener and use unsweetened apple sauce instead of banana for lower sugar content. Two mashed bananas are equivalent to about 1/2 cup of unsweetened apple sauce.
Storage
You can store this vegan breakfast casserole for up to 4 days in the fridge, in an airtight container for meal prep days of healthy breakfast. Another option is to freeze each serving and thaw it in the fridge the day before.
More Vegan Gluten-Free Breakfast Recipes
Below I listed some more vegan gluten-free recipes for you to try:
