This oatmeal is a filling and delicious breakfast that is packed with sweet potato and toasty spices! It’s the ideal way to utilize leftover sweet potatoes. If your recipe already calls for butter and sweetener, simply modify the amounts. Add coconut, toasted walnuts, or pecans on top.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 15 mins |
| Servings: | 2 |
| Yield: | 2 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups unsweetened almond milk
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 cup old-fashioned oats
- ½ cup mashed sweet potatoes
- 2 tablespoons ground flax seed
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon, or to taste
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger, or to taste
- ⅛ teaspoon ground cloves, or to taste
- 1 tablespoon honey
- ½ tablespoon salted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Combine almond milk and salt in a saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Add oats, sweet potatoes, flax seeds, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring often, for 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and stir in honey, butter, and vanilla extract.
- You may use any type of milk you prefer.
- One small sweet potato yields about 1/2 cup mashed. If you use leftovers, you may need to adjust the honey or butter if your leftover sweet potato already had sweetener and butter in it.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 404 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 63 g |
| Cholesterol | 8 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 10 g |
| Protein | 10 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 293 mg |
| Sugars | 20 g |
| Fat | 13 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This is so good and packs so much nutrition. I’ve even eaten it for dessert. I left out the cloves, because they are evil, and substituted date syrup for the honey. Thank you for the recipe, I’m going to be making this for a long time!
Great morning option! I made this with mashed butternut squash instead of sweet potatoes. It tasted similar, but wanted to use up some squash from a meal I had made earlier in the week. Added more 1/2 tsp of flaxseed, 1 tsp of hemp hearts and chia seeds to the mixture. I did not add the honey, butter or vanilla at the end, but instead added 2 Tbsp of brown sugar while cooking the mixture. I had leftovers for another morning. It was delish and a welcome breakfast option using some great veges.
Excellent recipe, didn’t have to adjust anything and the oatmeal came out with a nice thick consistency. Good flavor too, I topped with pecans. Makes enough for two full-size breakfasts!