5-Minuts HEALTHY OATMEAL BREAKFAST RECIPE: |
Oatmeal Benefits:
oatmeal is full of all kind of nutrients that are majorly beneficial for your body's overall health. it is full of fiber. having a good amount of fiber in your diet is important for weight loss and gut health and thankfully oatmeal is full of it, because of the fiber, springer says that oatmeal can help with decreasing your LDL bad cholesterol, while stabilizing your blood sugar. oats can help decrease the risk of auto disease, heart disease and gaining more weight.
How to Make oatmeal:
for making oatmeal i used old fashioned rolled oats not quick oats. if you need your bowl of oatmeal gluten free you can used gluten free oats.
in a pot of water oatmeal never had to make, but how you cook it depend on what type of oats you buy. in the stores you will typically see there varieties. there are three types of oats.
1- Quick oats:
these are more fine oats that can be cooked really quickly. you can certainly use those but i don't recommend them because they are more processed.
2- Steel cut oats:
this is the whole oats, unrolled and unprocessed tyep. these take the longest time to cook on stovetop.
3-Old fashioned oats or rolled oats:
in between the whole quick oats and steel cut oats you find the old fashioned oats. they are pretty similar .these are thicker than quick oats, so they need more time to cook.
Recipe:
A basic healthy oats meal recipe with instruction how to cook old fashioned rolled oats on the stovetop or in the microwave.
on the stovetop:
add 1/2 cup of oats, 1 cup of water/milk a dash of salt combine ingredients to a pot and heat over medium high flame, bring mixture to boil and cook 5-7 mints.
Microwave:
add 1/2 cup of rolled oats, 1 cup of milk a dash of salt into a microwave safe bowl with plenty of room for the oats to bubble up. microwave oats for 1mint.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup of rolled oats.
- 1 cup of water or Milk.
- 1/4 ground cinnamon powder
- a pinch of salt
- 1tsp honey
- vanilla extract (optional)
Instructions:
Add all ingredients into a bowl or a saucepan over medium/high heat.
bring mixture to boil reduce heat to low simmer and continue to cook about 5-7 mints.
oatmeal is ready when oats have soaked up most of the liquid and are creamy.
Toping:
serve into a bowl and toping with your favorite fruits and nuts and enjoy your oatmeal breakfast.
Nutrition:
- serving size 1/2
- calories:238
- sugar:9g
- fat:6g
- carbohydreate:43g
- fiber:7g
- protein:7g
- sodium:75.5g
- saturated fat:0.6g
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