This maple and brown sugar oatmeal recipe with sweet potato is made super easy in the microwave and is a delicious, healthy, and comforting breakfast on a busy weekday.
I’m not going to lie. The process of coming up with recipes to put on the blog is sometimes, just, well, weird. And sometimes the outcome can be a little, well, weird too. Like Maple and Brown Sugar Oatmeal with Sweet Potato. But in a good way and with 10 more food blogger’s oatmeal recipes at the end of this post.When I’m brainstorming recipe ideas I usually go for a few tried and true methods. Around this time of year they include:
- Go with an event: The World Series, Halloween and Thanksgiving or any event that features sweets
- Choose a seasonal ingredient: Apples, pumpkin, comfort food or sugar on anything that might bear a hint of dessert
- Select a trendy ingredient: Kale, bacon, quinoa or sugar on anything again and again and again
- Or just stuff something sweet with something else and call it a cookie, or a cake, or something that is ooey and gooey and makes everyone deem it “drool-worthy”
But then something like this recipe happens. Sprung straight from my own breakfast cravings of a good old fashioned oatmeal breakfast and totally not planned. I didn’t even switch out the bowl for one without a chip in it. I had some extra sweet potato in the refrigerator and while rooting around for the milk for my oatmeal figured, hey, why not?
I didn’t think about sharing this happenstance recipe besides getting it into my mouth until I posted it on Instagram (you’re following me, right?) and realized it actually hit 3 of my categories above. Maybe almost 4 since there is brown sugar involved.
What I like about my Maple and Brown Sugar Oatmeal with Sweet Potato is it’s another one of my sneak attack meals like this one. One where I sneak healthy stuff into family favorites and nobody’s the wiser. Given that sweet potatoes are just that—sweet—I knew the seasonality of this slow-burning carb wouldn’t distract from my favorite combo of oatmeal with maple and brown sugar. In fact it would just add more energy to the beginning of my day. Adding a handful of almonds just sweetened the pot.
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Maple Oatmeal with Sweet Potato
PrintIngredients
- ½ cup oatmeal , old fashioned or quick
- ⅔ cup non-fat milk , or low-fat if you prefer
- pinch of salt
- about ⅓ cup cooked sweet potato , mashed
- 1-2 teaspoons brown sugar
- pumpkin pie spice
- maple syrup
- chopped almonds
Instructions
- Mix the oats, milk, salt and sweet potato in a microwave safe bowl and cook on high for 1 minute 30 seconds.
- Remove from the microwave and sprinkle with brown sugar and a dash or two of pumpkin pie spice and stir. Drizzle with maple syrup, add a small handfull of chopped almonds and add more milk if desired. Serve warm.
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