How to make Slow Cooker apple and cinnamon oatmeal

Kate Elliott

Contributing Writer

If I'm going to be eating oatmeal, it has to be made with steel-cut oats. I prefer the texture of them to rolled or quick oats. But cooking steel-cut oats can take a long time because they're whole and need awhile to break down. And I just don't always have that kind of time in the morning. That is, until I tried the recipe below.

These oats actually cook while you sleep. All you have to do is mix everything in the slow cooker before going to bed and let it cook on low overnight. You'll wake up to tender oats that still have a bit of a bite to them, and warm wafts of cinnamon throughout the bowl, and your house. It's not a bad way to get your day going.

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Slow Cooker Apple and Cinnamon Oatmeal

10 minutes

7 hours

7 hours, 10 minutes

1 tablespoon of olive oil

2 cups water

2 cups unsweetened almond milk

5 small apples, peeled and chopped

3 cups dry steel-cut oats

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

1/4 cup pure maple syrup

Place olive oil into a 6-quart slow cooker and use a paper towel to wipe it around the bottom and up the sides of the slow cooker insert.

Add all other ingredients to the slow cooker and stir. Place lid on slow cooker and cook on low for 7 hours.

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