Slow Cooker Apple-Cinnamon Steel Cut Oats

This week’s Frugal Homemade features a quick & easy make ahead breakfast idea: Apple-Cinnamon Oatmeal, made with steel cut oats in the slow cooker. It doesn’t get much easier than this! My daughter leaves for work every morning at 6AM (earlier than school was!) and loves to eat oatmeal on the fly, so I thought I would give it a try in the slow cooker with fresh apples and some golden raisins for a little Friday Treat. 🙂

Let’s get started…

Slow Cooker Apple-Cinnamon Steel Cut Oats

Ingredients

• 1 cup organic steel cut oats (very reasonably priced in the bulk section of Mariano’s at $.66/cup!)
• 1/4 cup golden raisins
• 1 extra large Granny Smith apple, peeled & cut into small cubes
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 1/2 cups water

Directions

Place all ingredients in your slow cooker and slowly stir in the water. (Stir well, so the cinnamon gets mixed into the water and isn’t staying on top of the water.) Cook on low for 8 hours. Top with a few raisins and apple slices — and if you like your oatmeal a little creamier, just add a pat of butter.

How easy is that? This was a hit, so I’ll be making it again. This would be an easy and filling breakfast for busy weekend mornings, too; just throw it in the Crock-Pot overnight and wake up to the comforting scent of warm apples & cinnamon! Recipe serves four. Enjoy. 🙂

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Slow Cooker Apple-Cinnamon Steel Cut Oats

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This week's Frugal Homemade feature is for a quick, easy, make ahead breakfast -- Apple-Cinnamon Oatmeal made in the slow cooker!

Course Breakfast, Slow Cooker

Total Time 8 hours hours 20 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Author Rachel Singer

Ingredients

• 1 cup organic steel cut oats
• 1/4 cup golden raisins
• 1 extra large Granny Smith apple peeled & cut into small cubes
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 1/2 cups water

Instructions

• Place all ingredients in your slow cooker and slowly stir in the water. (Stir well, so the cinnamon gets mixed into the water and isn't staying on top of the water.)
• Cook on low for 8 hours.
• Top with a few raisins and apple slices -- and if you like your oatmeal a little creamier, just add a pat of butter.