Perhaps the most popular way to enjoy oats and their benefits is by preparing muesli or porridge for breakfast, but there are many others. ways to take advantage of this healthy cereal: in cereal bars, in delicious homemade granolas, making oatmeal cookies for breakfast or snack, in all kinds of doughs made with oat flour or directly with the flakes (even pizza doughs!), in vegetable burgers, in custards…

You will find all these recipes with oats here examples so you don’t lack ideas. You can have oatmeal for breakfast, lunch or, why not, for dinner. Let’s go there:

Recipes with oats for breakfast

Oatmeal is one of the star foods of healthy breakfasts, both for its nutritional and satiating power and for how easy and practical its flakes are. Delicious breakfasts can be prepared with sweet or savory oats.

The most popular are, without a doubt, porridge and muesli, to which we will dedicate separate sections later. But if you want other options apart from porridge or mueslihere are other oatmeal breakfast ideas to enjoy and inspire you.

Baked oatmeal porridge with vegetables

Balanced salty breakfasts have many benefits: In general, they tend to be more satiating and provide stable energy for the entire morning, avoiding sugar spikes caused by breakfasts rich in simple sugars, which make us feel low on energy and need to snack more between meals.

These types of oatmeal breakfasts are ideal to help maintain a healthy weight. They also help to have better concentration and strengthen hormonal balance.

For days when we are in a hurry, we can do batch cooking and include this recipe for baked oatmeal with vegetables. In the morning we simply cut a portion, heat it up and enjoy it with a little avocado or egg for a balanced breakfast. The recipe is very versatile and we can use whatever vegetables we have on hand.

Other recipes with oats for breakfast

• Oatmeal and Yogurt Granola Tarts: A recipe with oats that is prepared in 10 minutes, with ingredients such as rolled oats, almond flour, butter or coconut oil, Greek or coconut yogurt and fruit for the filling, among others. A granola base is made and filled with yogurt and fruits.
• Oatmeal muesli breakfast cookies: Oatmeal cookies are a classic, very practical for breakfast. Below you will find a whole section dedicated to oatmeal cookies, but here we give you a version designed especially for breakfast: some ‘muesli’ style cookies. They are made with rolled oats, peanut butter, nuts, bananas and dried fruit. A delight!
• Oatmeal and vegetable omelet: This is the proposal for a salty oatmeal breakfast. It is prepared with rolled oats, eggs and vegetable milk, although it can be made in a vegan version, mixing chickpea flour with an equal amount of vegetable milk. In our recipe, the vegetables chosen are spinach, red pepper and mushrooms, but you can add others.
• Easy oat bread for your toast: By making oatmeal dough you can obtain an ideal bread for making healthy breakfast toast. You only need oat flour, natural yogurt, baking powder, psyllium, chia seeds and salt. It is prepared in 10 minutes and baked in 45.

See here the step by step of these recipes with oats.

Oatmeal porridge recipes

Oatmeal porridge is the most traditional way to eat this highly nutritious cereal. After having a good bowl of oatmeal porridge for breakfast, we ensure a good start to the day and the contribution of energy necessary to continue with all daily tasks.

So as not to get bored of the usual oatmeal, we can play with flavors and toppings different. We can add fresh or dried fruit, compotes, different nuts and seeds, cocoa, spices such as cinnamon, ginger, vanilla or even prepare the porridge in a salty version.

We leave you here one selection of oat porridge recipes so you can choose the version you like the most or simply vary it:

Basic oat porridge

You can prepare it in three different ways: making it the night before and leaving it in the refrigerator overnight, the same day in the morning heating it little by little or in an express version in the microwave. You have the recipe according to the method you choose here.

Oatmeal porridge «carrot cake»

This original and delicious oatmeal porridge is a healthy version of the famous cake carrot Below you have the complete recipe:

Other recipes with oats in the form of porridge

• Different porridge recipeswith a oatmeal and peanut butter porridgewith banana and cocoa, and an original asian style oatmeal porrigde reminiscent of ramen soups, with its vegetable broth, tofu, mushrooms and a little miso, but with oat flakes instead of noodles.
• Porridge with grapes and coconutin which rolled oats are soaked with almond milk and complemented with grapes and grated coconut.

Recipes with oatmeal flakes like muesli or granola

Along with porridge, muesli is another of the most popular oatmeal breakfasts. Although you can make mueslis with other cereals, oat flakes are the usual base.

Granolas, a baked and crunchy version of muesli, are also a great breakfast option and ideal to carry in a tupperware and snack between meals or add to yogurt.

Bircher muesli recipe

The classic muesli par excellence is prepared with rolled oats, freshly grated apple and dried fruits. The recipe was developed by a doctor and healthy eating pioneer named Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner. From the original recipe you can make infinite variations.

See this recipe with oats for the original Bircher muesli here, in a version with milk and its vegan alternative.

Recipes with oat muesli

Muesli does not necessarily have to be enjoyed in a bowl with milk or a vegetable drink. You can also use it as a base for other original recipes. Here are some:

• Muesli cake with carrot: A soft cake based on oat flakes, raisins, almonds and carrots that is accompanied with a yogurt sauce.
• Crunchy muesli bars: Oat flakes are combined in this recipe with apple and walnuts to make delicious bars ideal for a quick breakfast or for snacking between meals.
• Muesli muffins: This is the spongy version of muesli, muffins with oat and corn flakes, whole wheat flour, raisins, nuts and yogurt.

See the step by step of these muesli-based oatmeal recipes here.

Granola recipes with oat flakes

All of these granolas are prepared with rolled oats:

• Basic granola recipe: By simply mixing coarse rolled oats, raisins, maple or agave syrup, olive or coconut oil, and cinnamon, you can make a granola that’s ready in 20-22 minutes in the oven.
• Oatmeal granola with nuts: It is made the same as the previous one but adding pecans, hazelnuts and almonds and giving it more oven time.
• Oatmeal and chocolate granola: With cocoa and chocolate and vanilla aroma. The chocolate has to be melted to make the mixture before putting it in the oven.
• Oat granola with orange, coconut and tahini: A granola with a citrus aroma and extra minerals thanks to the tahini, with the addition of toasted sesame seeds so that it doesn’t lose its crunchy touch.

See the step by step of these recipes with granola type oats here.

Oatmeal cookie recipes

Adding oats to your homemade cookies, or making homemade cookies in which oats are the main ingredient, is a delicious and easy way to make our cookies healthier and to incorporate this cereal into our daily lives.

In addition, cookies are a baking classic. Every self-respecting foodie should have at least a couple of proven recipes in their repertoire.

We leave you a selection of oatmeal cookies so you can choose the variation you like the most:

Oatmeal and ginger digestive cookies

These cookies are crunchy type cookies. digestive with a touch of ginger. If ginger is not your thing, simply omit it and make the cookies without it, with a little vanilla for example. One way or another, they are delicious.