From overnight oats through banana bread to oatmeal cookies and pies, this collection of easy oat recipes has everything you need. So if you’ve decided to add this prebiotic cholesterol-lowering grain to your diet or to your kids’ diet – check out these delicious ways to use oats!
Reasons To Add Oats To Your Diet
Oats are very high in soluble fibers and healthy fats. (source) They are also effective when it comes to: (source)
- Optimizing cholesterol levels. Oats contain beta-glucan, which is extremely powerful when it comes to improving cholesterol levels and keeping them on the low.
- Preventing diabetes. Once again, all thanks to beta-glucan.
- Maintaining normal blood pressure.
- Maintaining a desired body weight. All that fiber helps make you feel full for longer and suppresses your appetite and sudden cravings, so oats are great for you if you’re looking to lose weight and prevent yourself from gaining it all back.
15 Delicious and easy oat recipes:
As you’ll see, oats can be enjoyed at any time of the day – for breakfast, as a snack or as a delicious dessert after lunch or dinner.
1. Overnight Oats
This is probably the most famous and well-known recipe involving oats. And not without reason – it’s super easy, healthy and delicious!
All you need to do is grab whatever container and mix chia seeds, oats, some kind of sweetener and milk or water. Then you put it in the fridge and go get your beauty sleep. When you wake up, a delicious and nutrient-packed breakfast will await you. You can add whatever toppings you want – fruit, nuts, nut butter, even dark chocolate. It’s entirely up to you.
2. Healthy Shortbread Cookies
These delicious flourless oat cookies are both vegan and gluten-free, and on top of all that – very easy to prepare.
3. Plum Crumble With Oats
Have you ever wanted to make a pie crust healthier? This is a healthy pie crust recipe with oats that you want to have! Fill it with fresh plums and you’ve got a healthy and tasty dessert!
4. Oatmeal Cake
If you’re looking for a super easy not-too-sweet recipe for oats that you can basically grab and go or pack into lunch boxes – this cake is a must try!
5. Oatmeal Feta Muffins
I know I get goosebumps too when I hear the words savory and oats together. It freaks me out! But not these oatmeal feta muffins, they’re SO SO good. Great for breakfast or a snack!
6. Cheesecake With Oat Crust
These little cheesecakes aren’t just absolutely adorable, they’re very tasty and very easy to prepare too! You only need 6 ingredients to make this wonderful dessert.
7. Caramelized Banana Oatmeal
If you like your oats, cooked as oatmeal for breakfast, try it with caramelized bananas and coconut! It’s super tasty, almost like dessert!
8. Apple Oatmeal Cake
This is a great meal-prep breakfast for anyone ages 0-120. It’s a reader favorite and personally, one of the oat recipes I make constantly when apples are in season! It’s just that good!
9. Almond Butter Oatmeal Blondies
These healthy blondies are one of the my favorite oat recipes for dessert! They’re flourless, easy to prepare and absolutely unforgettable! Careful though, because you might end up making them quite often.
10. Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies
10/10! These cookies are so incredibly amazing, they basically melt in your mouth. Crispy on the outside, perfect on the inside, you won’t even know this is a no flour recipe!
11. Banana Oatmeal Pancakes
These pancakes are super easy to prepare and healthier than normal ones, so give them a try if you’re looking for a quick breakfast recipe with oats. You need a banana, oats,eggs and some more ingredients.
12. Easy Oatmeal Chocolate Muffins
We’ve got some more muffins on the list of easy oat recipes! I know, no one is against it. These are like healthy, oat-y brownies, fudgy, chocolate-y and delicious.
13. Strawberry Shortcake Oatmeal Cookies
These strawberry shortcake cookies taste wonderful and make the perfect sweet snack or small dessert when you need one. We’ve got a great oat base, which is then covered with a smooth cream cheese frosting. Finally, the cookies are topped off with fresh strawberries.
14. Easy Oatmeal Banana Bread
Okay, so banana bread is better than normal bread. What’s better than banana bread? Oatmeal banana bread! This recipe does not use any flour or sugar, but the bread still comes out sweet, tender and with a wonderful banana taste that lasts for another 4-5 days after it’s been baked.
15. Easy Chocolate Cake
Last, but definitely not least in the collection of healthy easy oat recipes, we’ve got this mouthwatering oatmeal chocolate cake. It’s super chocolatey and tasty, but also not too bad nutrition-wise. You can have it for breakfast or dessert!
There Are Many Oatmeal Recipes
As you can tell there are more than five ways to use oats in recipes! You can make sweet and savory things, bake them or soak them overnight! Whichever one you choose, I hope you enjoy the oat recipes you try!
15 Easy Oat Recipes
From overnight oats through banana bread to oatmeal cookies and pies, this collection of easy oat recipes has everything you need. So if you've decided to add this prebiotic cholesterol-lowering grain to your diet or to your kids' diet - check out these delicious ways to use oats!
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup & 1 tbsp coconut sugar
- 4 tbsp cacao
- 2/3 cups oats
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup milk
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup cherries, pitted
- 2 tbsp chocolate chunks
- 3 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tbsp coconut flakes
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F.
- Add all ingredients except chocolate chips and cherries to a bowl. Mix until well combined. Stir in the cherries.
- Line a small baking pan with parchment paper and spread the mixture inside.
- Top with chocolate chips.
- Bake for around 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean after inserting it into the cake.
- Let it cool off and enjoy or store in the fridge or freezer!
Nutrition Information
Yield 8 Serving Size 1Amount Per Serving Calories 144Total Fat 8gSaturated Fat 5gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 2gCholesterol 48mgSodium 184mgCarbohydrates 14gFiber 2gSugar 6gProtein 4g