| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 10 min |
| Prep: | 5 min |
| Cook: | 5 min |
| Yield: | 2 servings (serving size about 1 1/4 cups) |
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups water
- 1 cup Old Fashioned Oats, or Quick Cooking Oats
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup dried cherries
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons cherry jam, or to taste
- 1/4 cup 1 percent low-fat milk, plus more to taste
Instructions
- Put water, oats, salt and cherries into a medium sized saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for about 5 minutes for Old Fashioned Oats, or 1 minute for Quick Cooking Oats. Remove from heat. Stir in the vanilla extract and cherry jam. Put into serving bowls and pour 2 tablespoons of milk over each bowl.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 265 calorie |
| Total Fat | 3.5 grams |
| Saturated Fat | 0.5 grams |
| Cholesterol | 2 milligrams |
| Sodium | 164 milligrams |
| Carbohydrates | 54.5 grams |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 grams |
| Protein | 7 grams |
Reviews
I added a little cinnamon and splenda, and more cherries, because who doesn’t want more cherries! It was great!
I could eat this every day for the rest of my life!
Thank you that’s really easy
I love this oatmeal recipe. I have made it as is and also with some changes such as using regular milk, almond milk, cherry/strawberry jam, almond extract or a drizzle of heavy cream at the end and they all have turned out great!
Absolutely delicious! I had dried cherries but no cherry jam so I used Black Raspberry/Blackberry jam instead. It worked very well with the dried cherries.
The dried cherries were great in the oatmeal but the oatmeal was bland if you didn’t have a cherry in every bite you took. I would still make it agian. I used fruit only spread so maybe more sugar would have made it taste better.
Excellent. It’s hard to find recipes to vary up the morning oatmeal. I thought this was great. I never thought to add jam to the oatmeal. I always use sugar or maybe maple syrup. I also bought a bag of dried cherries from my Sam’s Club and tried them for the first time. Pretty good. They make a nice snack, too. Thanks Ellie for keeping us healthy with your recipes!
This recipe really really hit the spot this morning! I wanted something healthy and flavorful and this just hit the spot. Will for sure make this again!
Absutely delicious! Really…what a wonderful breakfast. Makes me actually look forward to waking up! Love Ellie and her recipes.
I really liked this recipe. Every cherry I bit into was like getting a treat. I added 1 tablespoon of sugar though. Next time I am going to use 1-2 packets of splenda. Since this recipe makes 2 servings, I discovered that the leftover serving is really good the next day. I actually started making the oatmeal a day in advance so all the flavors have time to blend. Thanks Ellie!