I was on the fence while reading through The Everything Gluten-Free College Cookbook
Anyhow, while it isn’t fall, I decided on a baked pumpkin oatmeal. I tried it twice, first with egg as directed, then vegan the second time. You won’t miss the egg at all, it tastes exactly the same!
Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal
Ingredients:
- ½ cup canned pumpkin purée
- 1 large egg or 1 tbsp ground flaxseed meal + 3 Tbsp water
- 1/3 cup pure maple syrup
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup milk, dairy or favorite non-dairy
- 2 cups old-fashioned oats, GF certified, if needed
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp sea salt
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°, lightly oil an 8×8″ glass baking dish.
Whisk wet ingredients together in a medium mixing bowl. Stir dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl, add wet, stir to combine.
Spread in prepared baking dish, bake for 30 minutes. Serve warm, or cool, cover and refrigerate. Warm in microwave for about a minute.
Makes 4 servings.
Note:
The recipe called for an optional ½ cup walnuts or pecans, diced, added with the oats, for a crunch to the oatmeal. I let this out so Alistaire could enjoy it with us.
~Sarah
FTC Disclaimer: We received a review copy.
Out of curiosity, is Alistaire wheat free or gluten free? Can he have barley, non GF oats, etc? Also, is this book geared to single/double servings or more family sized?
Another random and possibly ill placed observation: real maple syrup is probably not in most college students or recent grad’s grocery budgets!
Noooo kidding 😉 Lol!
So far it is just wheat – I figure we will do gluten testing later on – especially since he hasn’t eaten much gluten products in his first 17 months (which was a good thing it seems!) I’ll admit we use regular Bob’s oats and he does eat them 🙂
As for the book, that was another thing that got me snorting – it isn’t single servings, which I had kind of hoped for. It is many multi-person recipes. Which…I guess isn’t a bad thing, eh? PS: If you want the book, just say yes, I’ll send it your way!
Thanks, but Knox just doesn’t eat enough to justify another gf book. We eat as usual (which happens to be naturally gf much of the time) and I’ll sub something in for Knox if he can’t have what we eat. But honestly, he really eats next to nothing most days so I don’t go out of my way to keep the house fully gf.
I’m glad it appears to be just wheat so far, hopefully as he grows you can introduce other grains opening up his diet a little more. Our wonderful boys really make life interesting!
I’m not a big fan of pumpkin taste if its strong, but I’m loving the healthy ingredients of this oatmeal!