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Slow Cooker Steel-Cut Oats or Oat Groats

adapted from Well-Plated "Overnight Slow Cooker Steel-Cut Oats"

makes 6–8 servings

Ingredients
  • 2 cups oat groats or steel-cut oats
  • 4 cups water
  • 2 cups milk
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp ground or fresh-grated nutmeg
  • 1/2 tsp kosher salt
Instructions

  1. Stir together the oats, water, milk, and seasonings in your slow cooker.  Cook on low for 7–8 hours.  

Recipe Notes / Tips
  • To bump up the nutrition, add 3 Tbsp. ground flax meal 
  • To bump up the flavor, toast the oats first (frying pan over medium-high heat for a couple minutes)
  • To smooth the texture of groats (or if you just don't have enough, as happened to me once), substitute 1/4 amount with rolled oats (so 1 1/2 cups groats, 1/2 cup oats)
  • "Banana Bread" style:  add 2 large mashed bananas to the slow cooker stuff and cook