Why soak oatmeal overnight?

By leaving them overnight, you allow the oats to absorb all the liquid they need, which makes them softer and easier to cook . Additionally, the oats will have a more evenly cooked texture if you start with them soaked. Soaking also reduces the cooking time for oats, so they'll be ready faster in the morning.

How long does baked oatmeal last?

Storage Tips Refrigerate leftover baked oatmeal for 5 to 7 days , either wrapped in the baking pan or in an airtight container. To Reheat. Bake the oatmeal in a 350 degree F oven until it's warmed through, or simply heat it up in the microwave.

What not to add in overnight oats?

As Best points out, "some of the worst ingredients that are mistakenly added to healthy overnight oat recipes include chocolate sauce, sugar, syrup, and dried fruit ."

Can I eat overnight oats everyday?

Overnight oats are perfectly safe to be eaten every day . You may even eat them every morning if you like. However, some say that they feel oats give them digestive issues; overnight oats are not unsafe for those without medical conditions that affect digestion.

Is oatmeal good for a diabetic?

A cup of cooked oatmeal (1/2 cup of dried oats) contains approximately 30 grams of carbs, which can fit into a nutritious meal plan for people with diabetes . Oatmeal is high in fiber and nutrients but low in saturated and trans fats and sugar and can help you maintain a healthy blood sugar level.

Does oatmeal go rancid?

Signs of Spoiled Oatmeal If you notice any of the following indicators, it's best to discard the oatmeal: Foul or rancid odor: Fresh oatmeal should have a mild, pleasant aroma. If it smells off (you will definitely be able to tell) or has a sour odor, it may have gone bad .

Should you refrigerate baked oatmeal?

if you want to double the recipe, make it in a 9×13-inch pan and double the ingredients. Feel free to add nuts or use fresh or frozen fruit instead of the dried fruit. Store the baked oatmeal in the refrigerator for up to 7 days . You can also freeze it for up to 3 months.

Does soaking oats overnight make a difference?

When you soak oats, it's almost like you're cooking them without heat. Soaking helps the starches break down and reduces the natural phytic acid, which may help your body utilize the oats' nutrients much more efficiently. Overnight oats are healthier for your gut .

Is it healthier to soak oats overnight?

When soaked overnight, the starch in the oats is naturally broken down, allowing more nutrients to be absorbed by the oats. This causes the oatmeal to swell up and absorb the liquid through every pore, making it a healthy and filling breakfast meal on its own.

What happens if you don't soak oats?

By soaking your oats you neutralize the phytic acid . This soaking allows the beneficial enzymes to work and increases the number of vitamins and minerals present that your body will absorb. On the plus side, the process of rolling oats removes at least part of the bran, where a large portion of the phytic acid resides.

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The book is The Nourished Kitchenby Jennifer McGruther, and I’m thrilled to be holding a review copy right now. You can order yourshere(released April 15, 2014).

Let’s talk about the book itself, and then I’ve got an exclusive recipe to share with you.

About The Nourished Kitchen

I want to tell you how humbly (and brilliantly) this book is sectioned. Rather than by season or dish, you’ll find true farm-to-table categories of source — the garden, the pasture, the range, the waters, the fields, the wild, the orchard, and the larder.

Within the sections, you’ll find nutrient-dense dishes featuring raw dairy, traditional fats, organ and muscle meat, fish, whole and ancient grains, seasonal fruits, and fresh herbs.

With beautiful photos and explanations, Jenny guides you to creating homemade yogurts, simple cheeses, butter, broths, fermented vegetables, and much more. Her book contains more than 160 mouth-watering recipes, including the one below.

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And conversely, it’s the type of loaned book someone would not want to return. (So don’t be that person — get your own! 😉 )

Jenny and her publisher said yes to my request to share an exclusive recipe from the book, and below you’ll see the one I chose… oh, my, the flavors are heaven and the dish pure comfort and nourishment in the morning (or for a snack).

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Baked Oats with Pistachios, Dried, Figs, and Honey

Dense, chewy, and cake-like, these oat bars are always a favorite in my home. I reserve them for busy weekends when visiting guests stumble out of their slumber and into the kitchen for breakfast. They cut away a square, then top it with honey or yogurt and more fruit. It’s a favorite of my father, and one I always make especially for him when he visits—sometimes substituting walnuts for pistachios, or apricots and raisins for figs. --Jenny McGruther, author ofThe Nourished Kitchen.

Serves 6 to 8.

CourseBreakfast

Author Wardee Harmon

Ingredients

Soaking:

2cupssteel-cut oats
1cuppistachios
1/4cupyogurt

Baking:

1teaspoongroundcinnamon
1/2teaspoonsea salt
6organic or pastured eggsbeaten
1cupraw whole milk
1/2cupraw honey
1orange
1cupchopped dried
Mission figs
2tablespoonsgrass-fedbutterunsalted, plus more for greasing

Instructions

Soaking:

Spoon the oats into a large mixing bowl, toss in the pistachios, and cover with warm water by 2 inches.
Stir in the yogurt and cover the bowl with a kitchen towel.
Set the bowl in a warm spot in your kitchen and allow the oats and pistachios to soak for at least 8 and up to 12 hours.

Baking:

Drain the oat mixture in a fine-mesh sieve, rinse well, and return it to the mixing bowl.
Preheat the oven to 375°F and grease a 9 by 13-inch baking dish with butter.
Stir the cinnamon, salt, eggs, milk, and honey into the oat mixture until well blended.
Finely grate the zest of the orange, placing it in a bowl.
Cut the orange in half crosswise and squeeze the juice into the bowl holding the zest.
Stir both the orange zest and juice into the oat mixture, then fold in the figs.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared baking dish and smooth the top.
Cut the butter into small pieces and scatter them over the surface.
Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until golden brown at the edges and slightly wobbly at the center.
Allow to cool for 5 minutes before serving.
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Baked oats will keep, covered, in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

Recipe Notes

To reheat leftovers, cut a square of the baked oats. Drop a tablespoon of butter into a skillet and heat it over medium heat until frothy. Place the oat square in the skillet and cook until warmed through, about 3 minutes.

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About Wardee Harmon

Wardee lives in the Boise area of Idaho with her dear family. She's the lead teacher and founder of the Eat God's Way online cooking program as well as the author of Fermenting, Sourdough A to Z, and other traditional cooking books. Eat God's Way helps families get healthier and happier using cooking methods and ingredients from Bible Times like sourdough, culturing, and ancient grains.

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Caley Damen via Facebook says
April 12, 2014 at 7:58 am

Candace Damen this sound like something you’d like!
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Vaughn Norman via Facebook says
April 12, 2014 at 8:08 am

sounds good
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Avis Peterson says
April 12, 2014 at 8:50 am

I just completed my pre-order through Amazon. I believe I will like this book and use it often since I pull meals from the garden on a daily basis.
Cheers,
izzi~avis
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Avis Peterson via Facebook says
April 12, 2014 at 8:52 am

I just completed my pre-order through Amazon. I believe I will like this book and use it often since I pull meals from the garden on a daily basis.
Cheers,
izzi~avis
Winthrop Washington
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Peggy Galatas via Facebook says
April 12, 2014 at 11:12 am

yum!!!!!
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Annette Lowrie via Facebook says
April 12, 2014 at 5:15 pm

What is the calorie count on these, please?
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- Patricia says
  April 12, 2014 at 7:04 pm
  
  If you only eat natural whole organic nutrient dense foods,drink plenty of good water (with unrefined salt added to to balance your minerals) and listen to your body’s needs, you won’t need to count calories. Your body will naturally reduce or gain what it needs to return to balance. You may need to leave off foods your body is sensitive to like grains, eggs or dairy, but that is part of listening to your body. Good fortune
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Elizabeth says
April 12, 2014 at 7:01 pm

Thank you for blogging about this recipe. You convinced me to pre-order the book!
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Dona says
April 12, 2014 at 7:43 pm

This sound delicious!!! I do have two questions……..I thought I read somewhere that you shouldn’t soak steel cut oats. I usually only buy rolled oats, w
ould this recipe work with rolled oats?
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Natalie Ann Comeau via Facebook says
April 12, 2014 at 7:50 pm

Yummmm
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Joan says
April 13, 2014 at 12:12 am

Looks delicious. Even doesn’t have what I am allergic to which is even better cos I can try it if i really wanna, it looks delicious and i think i do wanna try it out.
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Nat Yusop via Facebook says
April 13, 2014 at 4:50 am

What a wholesome recipe! It’s difficult to get steel cut oats in my neck of the woods here in Kuala Lumpur. Would rolled oats work just as well ?
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Tiffany Ziegenhorn O'Connell via Facebook says
April 13, 2014 at 12:27 pm

I am making this for breakfast tomorrow!
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Jacalyn Groth via Facebook says
April 13, 2014 at 5:45 pm

Omg I want that for breakfast tomorrow haha
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Nicole says
September 16, 2014 at 9:11 am

I can’t believe that you do not once link to the actual baked oatmeal recipe posted on the nourished kitchen’s blog. Annoying.
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- Wardee Harmon says
  September 16, 2014 at 4:06 pm
  
  Nicole — I’m sorry about this, but actually I had no idea there was a recipe there. If you’d like to add a link in the comments, please feel free. Thanks!
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Karen says
October 27, 2014 at 4:26 pm

Wardee,
I made this recipe and wonder if the 8 cups of oats is correct. I find the dish very dense and I couldn’t fit it all into and 9 x 13 pan. I’m sure it would easily feed 12 hungry lumberjacks. Any thoughts?
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- Rebecca says
  January 25, 2015 at 12:30 pm
  
  I agree!! I think I just wasted some serious money on organic steel cut oats… because I followed it as written 🙁
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- Diane Dahl says
  April 3, 2015 at 4:35 pm
  
  I agree! I cut everything in 1/2 put it in a pan more than 1/2 of size called for and it was about 4 inches thick not done in the middle, over-cooked on the edges. It is in her cookbook this way. I wish she would answer with correct amount. The saving grace was I took it out in spoonfuls and cooked it each morning with milk and yogurt and had fabulous oatmeal.
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  - Diane Dahl says
    April 3, 2015 at 4:40 pm
    
    OOPS! I meant I cut ingredients in half and put it in a pan slightly smaller than the one called for. It was not really edible
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Gorge says
November 8, 2014 at 7:01 am

why do you soak the oats? Soaking oats doesn’t have any effect on phytic acid content, unless you can reference the contrary?
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Joan says
January 26, 2015 at 1:54 pm

Soaking oats does actually do something, it makes them softer and easier to cook or at least it does in Porridge Oats and man does it make the Porridge yummy.
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Diane says
March 22, 2015 at 12:04 pm

Just bought your cookbook and love it. I can’t wait to make this. Everythings soaking now. BUT . . . Ive got to ask. 8 CUPS of oatmeal, won’t that feed an army? I started by cutting in half and hope it works
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Wanda says
February 1, 2016 at 8:23 am

Warden, please contact your friend to sort out the recipe amounts Her website won’t accept questions unless the recipe is posted on her site
Really want to cook this and apprehensive that it’s written incorrectly
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- Diane says
  February 1, 2016 at 8:36 am
  
  Wanda,
  Believe me it is written incorrectly. The recipe has been removed from old links. It is in the Nourished Kitchen cookbook this way but don’t waste the oats. As I stated above I took it out by spoonfuls and added milk and yogurt each day and served it that way to use it up.
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Lauren says
January 21, 2019 at 9:47 am

I made this as it was written on Nourished Kitchen’s website way back in 2013 abc it came out fine then. However, trying to find again I came across this – indeed 8 cups is WAY too much. Here are the adjustments I made:
– 4 cups steel cut oats
– 1/8 cup yogurt (though I’d use the full 1/4 next time)
– 4 eggs
Came out great!
I did sub cherries and almonds for the figs and pistachios. Kept the orange. Next time I might add 1/2 cup more milk and 1 more egg.
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Carol says
September 6, 2019 at 12:32 pm

I made this recipe as written, with worries about the amount of oats, and before finding this site. It turned out like Karen said hers did. I had gotten the recipe recently via email from Mother Earth Living. While it was in the oven, I decided to try to find any comments about this recipe online, because I knew something was wrong, and found this site, and also reviews on Amazons under the book The Nourished Kitchen by Jennifer McGruther – the original author of this recipe. The amount of oats is definitely incorrect, as Lauren stated. Based on info on the bag of oat groats, that 1/4 cup of oats serves 1, and the recipe above serves 8 – if I ever make this recipe again – I will go with 2 cups of oats and all else the same. Meanwhile, I need to find a hungry army!
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Carol says
September 7, 2019 at 10:25 am

I would also like to thank the others in these comments who sent up red flags about the amount of oats, and Diane for her way to salvage this monstrosity. I cut mine up into individual serving-sized cubes and froze 3/4 of the results to use throughout the year. To use, I took a cube of the baked oats, added a handful of raisins and some milk, mashed it up and heated. It was edible. I just wished I had researched this recipe before soaking those oats!
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The Nourished Kitchen by Jennifer McGruther [Exclusive Recipe] (2024)

About The Nourished Kitchen

Baked Oats with Pistachios, Dried, Figs, and Honey

Ingredients

Soaking:

Baking:

Instructions

Soaking:

Baking:

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