Baked oatmeal is the perfect recipe for a healthy family Sunday breakfast. I know because we make my Lemon Blueberry Baked Oatmeal, Peanut Butter Baked Oatmeal, or Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal almost every week. When you prepare baked oatmeal on the weekends, you don’t have to rush in the morning during the week to make something for the kids. This strawberry-baked oatmeal flavor combines strawberries, almond butter, and chocolate chips, making it taste like a strawberry cheesecake. It’s super creamy, moist filled with strawberry juice and melted chocolate chips. If you love strawberries, or simply have too many strawberries in your garden, try a batch of strawberry-baked oatmeal. You won’t regret it. It’s a one-pan oatmeal that contains all your favorite oatmeal ingredients from oats, milk, and strawberries for a lovely berry flavor. It’s a healthy family breakfast that can be stored for four days in the fridge and is perfect for meal prep for many healthy mornings.
Ingredients and Substitutions
All you need to make this healthy breakfast are a few ingredients:
Old-Fashioned Rolled Oats or quick oats. Both work fine for this recipe. Cinnamon Baking Powder Salt Maple Syrup or any sweetener you love, including brown sugar, coconut nectar, or date syrup. Almond Milk or any non-dairy milk you love. Almond butter or peanut butter l. I like almond butter, it makes the recipe softer and creamier and boosts protein content. Flax Egg Chia seeds Chocolate Chips – Use white or dark chocolate chips or a combination of both. Strawberries, fresh or frozen, cut into slices. Make sure you use the amount listed in the recipe written below. Always cut them into thin slices to avoid too much strawberry juice on some spots of the baked oats. Vanilla Extract
How To Make Strawberry Baked Oatmeal
It’s easy to make this oatmeal bake recipe. The only tricky part is the strawberries. Strawberries are ultra-juicy compared to the blackberries I used in my blackberry oatmeal bake. As a result, if you add too many strawberries to the recipe or you don’t slice them finely, they release too much juice, and the oatmeal never firms up. It’s not a fail, and of course, you can still eat a soft oatmeal bake. However, if you like yours with texture, the firm makes sure you follow my recommendation for the number of strawberries and the way to cut them. There are two ways of making this recipe, depending on the type of strawberries you are using – fresh or frozen. Most of the time, I use frozen strawberries for this recipe. This is because they are already sliced, and cheaper, and even if strawberries are not in season, I can enjoy strawberry oatmeal. Since frozen strawberries release way more juice than other frozen berries, I recommend removing them from the freezer 20 minutes before you start. This gives time for the berries to thaw lightly and release some of their juice. If strawberries are in season, pit the stem, and cut the strawberries into slices. Set them aside in a bowl.
Serving
The most classic way to eat baked oatmeal is lukewarm with a touch of milk in the bowl. Also, adding some toppings to this strawberry-baked oatmeal recipe tastes amazing. Try some of the healthy oatmeal toppings below to add texture and flavor to your breakfast:
Peanut Butter Cashew Butter Extra-Fresh Strawberries Drizzle plain plant-based Greek Yogurt
Storage Instructions
You can store baked oatmeal leftovers in the baking dish and add a piece of plastic wrap or foil on top of it to keep the oatmeal fresh and moist. It stays fresh for 4 to 5 days in the fridge. The next day, serve one portion in a shallow bowl and eat cold or rewarm in a microwave-safe bowl for 1 minute. Serve with plant-based milk, soy yogurt, or on its own. You can also freeze leftovers in a single-serve airtight container and thaw them in the fridge the day before serving.
Allergy Swaps
If you have food allergies, try some of the substitution options below.
Gluten-Free – Some oat brands are gluten-free certified. Pick one of those to make this recipe. Chocolate Chip-Free – You can replace the chocolate chips with more shredded coconut, or chopped nuts like almonds, or walnuts, or banana slices. Nut-Free – Feel free to use any milk you love, like coconut milk, soy milk, or rice milk. Swap almond butter for sunflower seed butter
Find below my answers to the most common questions about this recipe.
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