Step away from the sugar!
One of my favorite ways to sweeten oatmeal is naturally, by melting in a banana. The banana gets all caramelized, and the oatmeal tastes amazing!
The Melted Banana Trick
Step 1: Cook up the oatmeal or another grain as you normally would.
Step 2: In a separate bowl, melt however much banana you want in the microwave or on the stovetop until it’s all caramelized/gooey. This adds so much flavor to the oatmeal! Now, stir the melted banana into your oatmeal.
Optional Step 3: Take your hand blender or Magic Bullet or regular blender and blend everything together so it’s a nice pudding-y consistency. (You don’t have to follow this step, but it mixes in the caramelized banana nicely.)
Below, as part of this recipe: Strawberry Hugs Oatmeal.
Or, for a super-delicious breakfast, try combining oatmeal tricks:
Use with the popular Voluminous Oatmeal Trick.
Rhea says
SOOO obsessed with your website!!
I’m going to add some dates to this as well, for a really caramel-y texture!!
Angie says
Love your blog.
Katie Milliken says
This worked so well! Thank you for the tip!
Betty says
Hi Katie,
Blessings to you in the New Year….I can’t wait until your book arrives in the mail.
Okay I am a sugar addict and I have come to realize how flour, oats , pasta ect. get processed in our bodies as sugar. So even gluten free doesn’t help because it still gets used as a sugar once in the body. My Chiro had me so a NO SUGAR cleanse which meant NO carbs or sugar. It help me flush my system as well as I lost 75 pounds in the year of doing it, HOWEVER now that I am trying to balance things, I am not doing so well. Once I get a sugar fix I can’t stop, but I can’t do the cleanse forever, it is not meant for that. So THANKS TO YOU, I have a great resource. So I wondered about recipes that use no flour or white sugar. I found one through my Chiro that used raw cashews as the flour base, once put in the food processor it got the flour consistency but I am NOT a good baker so don’t know how to make the adjustments in other recipes. My glycemic index is so affected by the use of any flour or while sugar. Any thoughts on that my dear?
Thanks so much,
Katie says
I tried this today and it was amazing!!! Way more flavor than I ever thought it would give me! I also tried out the Voluminous Oatmeal trick too =)
Kate says
I love your website but I’m sick of these pop up scams that keep coming up whenever I’m looking at a recipe 🙁
Chocolate Covered Katie says
Hi, can you explain more about what you are seeing? My ad account manager confirmed that there are no popups on my site, so I’m not sure what you mean by popups. What are the ads for?
Kate says
Hi Katie, I didn’t know how to reply your reply because it said not to reply the email.
Anyway the pop up says ‘You’ve just won £500 of Tesco vouchers!’ I can take a screenshot of it if you like but I don’t think I can post pictures on here.
Ana Davis says
This recipe could be even better if a tablespoon of honey is added to the oatmeal and banana or even peanut butter! to even make this recipe sustainable, Fair trade bananas could be used! Also has anyone tried baking the oatmeal after it has been blended one more time?
Sarah says
I recently bought a large quantity of fruit and vegetables for $4. It includes 30 bananas and when googling things to use them for I came across this idea. It tasted so good but now I am wondering if I can make a batch and freeze some of the mixture to use later or if that probably wouldn’t work? Thanks!