PCOS NUTRITION CENTER BLOG

It’s pumpkin season! Here’s a tasty, heart healthy way to cook steel-cut oats while you’re asleep so they’re ready for you in the morning. Recipe from The PCOS Nutrition Center Cookbook: 100 Easy and Delicious Whole Food Recipes to Beat PCOS 

Serves 4

Ingredients

1 tablespoon cold pressed coconut oil

1 cup steel-cut oats 2 cups (16 ounce can) pumpkin puree

1 tablespoon brown sugar

2 cups unsweetened vanilla almond milk

2 cups warm water

¼ teaspoon kosher salt

1 – 2 tablespoons pumpkin pie spice (according to taste)

Instructions

Melt coconut oil in a medium sauté pan. Add steel-cut oats and toast until lightly browned.

In a slow-cooker, combine pumpkin puree, sugar, almond milk, water, salt, and pumpkin pie spice. Mix well. Stir in oats. Set slow-cooker to low and cook 8 to 10 hours.

Tips

• Only use steel-cut oats. Other oats will burn or result in an undesired texture.
• This oatmeal can be portioned and stored in the refrigerator for up to 7 days. It reheats well in the microwave
• Add chopped walnuts for added crunch

Nutrition Info Per Serving

270 calories • 40 g carbohydrate • 8 g fiber • 8 g fat (4 g saturated fat) • 8 g protein • 430 mg sodium