Savory Breakfast Oats

Serves 1

Ingredients

  • ½ cup steel-cut oats (or farro if you want to repeat my “experiment”)
  • 1¾ cups water
  • 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
  • 2 cups chopped stemmed kale or greens of choice
  • ½ cup sliced mushrooms (we love using shiitake, but any kind is delicious)
  • 3 to 4 sun-dried tomatoes, thinly sliced
  • ¼ teaspoon turmeric
  • 1 teaspoon Sriracha sauce or hot sauce of choice, or to taste
  • 1 tablespoon chia seeds or flaxseed meal

Method

  1. In a saucepan, combine the oats, water, nutritional yeast, kale, mushrooms, tomatoes (reserving some for garnish if you like), turmeric, and hot sauce. Bring just to a boil, watching carefully and stirring to prevent burning. Reduce the heat to maintain a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, for 8 to 10 minutes; not all water will be absorbed when it is removed from the stove, but it thickens as it cools.
  2. Sprinkle with sun-dried tomatoes, chia seeds, or flaxseed meal and feel the goodness.

Based on excerpts from The Engine 2 Cookbook by Rip Esselstyn and Jane Esselstyn.

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