Saturday, February 04, 2012

Chai Steel-Cut Oatmeal

1 cup steel cut oats
4 cups water (you can replace up to 2 cups of the water with non-dairy milk and/or whey)
a hefty pinch of sea salt
1 roobios chai tea bag
1 tsp cinnamon
vanilla stevia/sweetener to taste
slivered/sliced almonds for serving

Put the water/milk mixture and chai tea bag in a large pot and bring to a boil.  Add the oats, salt and cinnamon, remove tea bag, lower heat to a simmer and cook for 40 minutes.

Serve sweetened with slivered/sliced almonds mixed in.

Note:  You can also make this in the crock pot, using this method.  Alternately, you can bring the water to a boil, stir in oats, salt and cinnamon, turn the heat off and leave covered at room temperature overnight.  I like to divide the oatmeal up into pint-size jars after it's done cooking, so I have handy portion-sized jars ready for grabbing in the morning.

Also, this is even better after having sat in the fridge overnight.  The texture becomes chewy and awesome.