Discovering Savoury Oatmeal

Partway by means of the pandemic, particularly when it was extra sophisticated and demanding to buy groceries in individual, Jeff and I began utilizing a “right here’s a recipe and elements and directions” meal service referred to as Good Meals. I used to be extremely skeptical however ended up liking the compromise between time-saving comfort and the visceral satisfaction of getting ready a meal different almost-from-scratch.

It nudged us out of our common go-to meals, and in addition made me higher respect the visible delight of various textures, colors and garnishes, experimenting with completely different flavours. It jogged my memory quite a lot of artistic artwork play, besides I might eat the entire piece on the finish!

Therefore this put up.

I’ll be posting extra about my forays into cooking…primarily as a type of artistic meals journal for myself, however I determine I could as properly make these posts public in case anybody else is .

My good friend Hoi Ning and I have been speaking about oatmeal not too long ago, and she or he requested me if I preferred my oatmeal candy or savoury. I had no concept that there was such a factor as savoury oatmeal! After I obtained again house, I seemed up the time period and positive sufficient, there are SO some ways of dressing up oatmeal to make it extra of a filling breakfast.

My favorite at current: I take advantage of Quaker quick-cook steel-cut oats in a bowl, add a couple of teaspoon of miso to the water earlier than microwaving, throw in some torn-up sheets of nori, add a cooked egg on prime. The important thing, I discover, is to go away the yolk a bit runny to be able to combine it in with the oatmeal earlier than eat it. YUMMMMMMMMM. Listed here are another savoury oatmeal recipes and ideas I wish to attempt, although I’ll most likely adapt them for my quick-cook oats since I don’t wish to spend the time cooking the oats from scratch within the morning (I might fairly use the time for writing) until it’s an in a single day recipe:

Miso Oats With Scallions + Sesame Oil – from Kale & Caramel

In a single day Oats with Tender-Cooked Egg and Miso-Braised Kale – from Bon Appétit

Savory Miso Oatmeal – from Proportional Plates

Do you have got another savoury oatmeal recipes to recommend? Be at liberty to let me know.