Breakfast is served! This Vegan Baked Oats and Berries dish is perfect to make ahead and serve a crowd or cut into individual portions to freeze.
If you like oats and fruit, you’ll probably love this. I am a breakfast person…I gotta have it and usually right away when I get up. My go-to breakfast is usually oatmeal with sweet potatoes and spinach mixed in (I know, I’m weird).
While I was recovering from rotator cuff surgery, my dear friend Kim brought me this baked oat dish. It was so nice to have breakfast made for me! I was able to just pop a portion into the microwave and breakfast was ready. Being the most awesome friend, she shared the recipe.
It couldn’t be easier. Just mix all ingredients in a big bowl, dump into a casserole dish and bake. This is such a convenient recipe to make for holiday breakfasts, brunches, and every day at home or an on-the-go start to your day.
If you try this, please let me know how you liked it and what variations you have come up with.
- 4 cups oats (I use 1 cup rolled oats and 3 cups steel cut oats) Adjust the type of oats to suit your personal texture preferences.
- 3 cups applesauce
- 2 cups plant milk (I use soy or oat milk)
- 3 cups mixed berries (or other fruit)
- 2+ tbsp cinnamon
- 1/2-1 cup chopped nuts and/or dried fruits
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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In a large mixing bowl, mix all the ingredients except nuts/dried fruit, if using. Mix it well.
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Pour the mixture into a 9x13 (or something close to that size) casserole dish. If using nuts/dried fruit, sprinkle on top.
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Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes.
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Remove from oven, cut and serve or cool and freeze in individual portions.
I like a chewier texture, so I like mostly steel cut oats in this. Play with the ratio to suit your own texture preferences. My version is sort of like eating a warm granola bar instead of a bowl of oatmeal.
I've tried this with frozen mixed berries and cherries, just blueberries, and a frozen smoothie mix that had berries and kale. There wasn't much kale in it, but it was good and I will be trying it with more kale next time since it's an easy way to get more greens. Every version I've tried has been good.
I'm going to try apple and sweet potato next.
I drizzled warm raspberry jam on the pictured serving. Delicious! Also great with no sweetening. Maple syrup was tasty too. I'm thinking that a maple cashew cream sauce would be beautiful drizzled across the top for a fancy brunch.
loved this. subbed some cooked mashed pumpkin for part of the applesauce. so hood i had to freeze it to keep from eating it all at once
That’s a great idea! I was just thinking this morning that I’d like to try replacing the berries with sweet potato and apple chunks! I love the way this can be adapted to suit many tastes. I cut mine into portions and freeze it. If I want it for breakfast I take it out of the freezer at night and let it thaw in the fridge, or I just microwave it if I forget to thaw it. Thanks for letting me know you like it!
May I ask what was in the smoothie mix? I would like to make this an add greens as well but I’m having a difficult time visualizing how to do this.
The smoothie mix I had was berries and kale. I wasn’t too fond of the wads of kale in the baked oats, so if I use it again I will break up the frozen kale into small bits.
I think you could easily add finely chopped greens like kale or spinach if you use fresh. Just mix it in well. Let me know if you try it and how it turns out.
I did try it–I used 2 cups of chopped fresh strawberries and 1 packed cup of chopped kale and I think it turned out well. I topped it with some leftover lemon cashew date frosting with raspberry jam drizzle on top of the frosting. Yum! I think it would have worked if I’d added the full 3 cups of berries even with the addition of the kale and I may try that next time, or perhaps 2 cups of berries and 2 cups of chopped greens. (It also has made me think of how savory baked oatmeal might work out because that sounds delicious to me). Thank you for the recipe 🙂
You mentioned you were going to try it with more kale and I wondered if you did? I have added fiber chopped kale to my sc oats in the Ipot and that work ok. Would love to hear how you added it and how it came out. Thx
I haven’t yet, but I am sure it would work well. I would definitely chop it finely and just mix it in with your favorite fruits or even with sweet potato.
Have you made this with the apples and sweet potatoe yet? If so please share specify recipe and directions! I am not a cook!! Lol thanks
Hi! Thanks for asking! Yes, I did make it with the sweet potato (the orange flesh kind) and apples. I cut both the apples and the sweet potatoes into about 1/2″ cubes and used about equal amounts of each to total 3 cups. I peeled the sweet potato but not the apples. I added a bit more cinnamon too. It was quite good! If you make it, let me know how you liked it.