While I do like a sweet breakfast from time to time, my favorites are savory, and this is one of my all-time favorites.
Now you can enjoy hearty vegan savory oatmeal for your breakfast… or any time you feel hungry and want something tasty that’s quick and easy to make!
Hearty Vegan Savory Oatmeal
Ingredients
- Oatmeal
- 1 cups Instant Oats
- 2 cups Vegetable Stock or water
- 1 cups Plant Milk (I used organic soy milk) rice, oat or unsweetened almond milk would be great too!
- 1/4 cups Nutritional Yeast optional
- 2 tsp Mixed Italian Herbs Dried
- 1 tsp Chilli Flakes optional, use less or omit if you don't like spice
- 1 tsp Onion Flakes or onion powder
- 1 tsp Garlic Powder
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric
- 1/2 tsp White Pepper optional, use less or omit if you don't like spice
- Toppings/Mix Ins
- Your choice of any vegetables or herbs eg. Spinach, tomato, avocado, corn, beans, mushrooms, baked tofu, basil etc
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Instructions
- Place all of the oatmeal ingredients into a large pot or pan before turning on the heat.
- Bring to a light boil and then turn down to a low simmer or switch off the heat and leave on the residual heat of the hotplate. Keep stirring the mixture until it reaches the 'porridge' consistency of your liking.
- Mix through or top with any topping you have on hand or that you prefer the taste of. eg. spinach, tomato, avocado, corn, beans, mushrooms, baked tofu, basil, olives etc
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Anja – I came home tonight not knowing what I was going to have for dinner. As I’m checking my emails, I see your latest, Savory Oatmeal. As I watched, I realized I already had all the ingredients on hand, so I tried it. What a delicious dinner!! Who would’ve thought savory oatmeal! Thank you so much! And I have enough for tomorrow!!
Fantastic Diana 🙂
Have ALWAYS made my oatmeal & cooked cereals “savory”!
Thk u!
Hi Anja, This was really quick and delicious. It surprised my husband and me. Definitely one of my new staple recipes! I love all your recipes and plan on getting your cookbook at some point. One (unrelated) question, do you have a good online source for ordering agar? I made your smoked cheese with the flakes (instead of powder) and the conversion didn’t work well. (I didn’t have enough flakes.) It takes a lot of flakes to convert to powder. Not cost effective since the flakes are about $9 – $10 for 1 oz. It tasted good but not firm enough. Maybe it is just expensive to make vegan cheese this way. If so, I’ll just factor that in. Thanks! Donna
You could try ebay or amazon… or an asian grocery store.
Thanks, Anja. I should look for a local Asian market.
Just started trying to clean up my diet. This was my first vegan meal. Had it for breakfast because I don’t like sweet breakfasts. It tastes amazing! I will cut back on the red pepper flakes, however, because it has LOTS of heat. I love spicy but maybe it’s the time of day. I’m still on fire.
Could you somehow adjust this to use non-instant steel cut oats?
You could use rolled oats but it could take longer to cook and won’t taste as light and creamy.
Hi, could you use steel cut oats or rolled oats?
You could use rolled oats but steel cut oats would take a lot longer to cook and would not cook or taste the same.