Pumpkin Apple Baked Oatmeal
Ingredients
For the Pumpkin Apple Baked Oatmeal ::
- 2 cup pecans
- 1 cup pumpkin seeds
- 3 1/2 cups oats not quick oats. I use sprouted oats for best digestion
- ½ cup grassfed collagen optional
- 1/3 cup coconut sugar turbinado, maple sugar, or maple syrup would be fine here
- ¼ cup chia seeds
- 2 tsp aluminum free baking powder
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- ½ tsp sea salt
- 1 ½ cups coconut milk
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
- 3-4 cups chopped apples I don’t peel mine but you can.
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 4 eggs
For the Topping (Completely optional but yummy!)
- 1 cup pecans
- 1 tbsp coconut sugar turbinado, cane sugar, or maple sugar will work here
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ¼ cup cold butter cut into 5 chunks
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9x13 baking dish with butter or coconut oil.
- Put the pecans and pumpkin seeds into your food processor or blender and blend/pulse until the pieces are very small like a meal.
- Whisk the blended pecans/pumpkin seeds, oats, collagen, coconut sugar, chia seeds, baking powder, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and salt in a large mixing bowl.
- Add the coconut milk, pumpkin puree, chopped apples, vanilla, and eggs, mix until combined, and pour the baked oatmeal mixture into your baking dish.
- To make the topping, put the pecans into your food processor and blend until the pecans are the size of peas. Add the rest of the topping ingredients and blend/pulse until the butter is distributed and about the size of peas – it is ok if there are a few larger or smaller chunks of butter.
- Sprinkle the topping over the baked oatmeal mixture.
- Bake the pumpkin apple baked oatmeal at 350 degrees for 50 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean and the top is golden. Let the baked oatmeal cool a good 10 minutes before slicing.
Notes
- Pecans feel just like the holidays to me! But, I know so many of you can't have nuts. My suggestion would be to swap the pecans for some buckwheat flour or sunflower seeds, or a combo of both ideally. Baked oatmeal is pretty fool proof, so play around with the amount freely - it is pretty hard to mess up!
- If you cannot have eggs, you can add more pumpkin as well as egg replacer to adjust for this. You might not get as fluffy of a result but it will definitely still work.
- If you do not have access to coconut sugar, you can swap for sweetener of your choice - honey, maple syrup, date sugar, etc. The amount of sweetener is divided up among a good 12-15 slices, and the taste has a pleasant but not too strong sweetness. If you want it sweeter, simply add more sweetener.