Recipe: Oatmeal with honey-roasted peanuts and candied ginger

[fish_echo]

*waves* Hi, this is my first post here!

I made this as a snack today somewhat impulsively and it came out quite good (to my surprise), so I thought I'd share.


I'm sorry for the low-precision measurements but I wasn't expecting to need/want more precision when I made this. And my kitchen scale is broken so I couldn't weigh things out at the moment anyway.

Ingredients (one serving)
--1.5 C water
--3/4 C rolled oats
--small handful honey roasted peanuts (25?)
--3 pieces candied ginger, finely diced (maybe a scant tablespoon?)
--pinch cinnamon
--dash nutmeg
--milk/cream/butter to taste

Method

1. Put water, peanuts, and diced ginger in a small saucepan on the range on high heat.


2. When the water comes to a vigourous boil, add oats and turn down the heat a bit (so that it's still boiling but so you aren't in danger of boiling over). Stir occasionally.


3. When the oats have reached the consistency you like, take off the heat and put into your bowl.


4. Mix in spices and dairy.


5. Enjoy!

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Comments

[brigid]

Interesting! I've put pecans and walnuts in oatmeal (and oatmeal cookies) but never thought of peanuts.

What else do you use candied ginger in?

[fish_echo]

It's quite possible I used peanuts because I was out of walnuts. :)

I eat candied ginger by itself, most of the time. In terms of cooking, hmmm, there's also dipping it in dark chocolate. One of my friends dices it and uses in cookies, but I don't have that recipe.

[drgaellon]

I add diced candied ginger to homemade cranberry sauce, and to pumpkin bread.

[fish_echo]

I can see that being delicious! Thanks for the tips :)

Ooh! Tastey!

[wolfie74]

This looks great! Have you ever tried adding any mashed/pureed pumpkin? I'm wondering how it would mix with the cooked oats.

Re: Ooh! Tastey!

[fish_echo]

Hmmm, I hadn't thought of trying that before. I'm not actually sure what it would be like. But you would probably want to double the spices so that the pumpkin doesn't mute them overly much. *thinks on it* I'd probably add the pumpkin immediately after I added the oats, so that the pumpkin would be throughly intermixed into the oats. Which would probably mean adding a bit more water would be useful too. Hmmm. I don't have spare pumpkin flesh about at the moment, but if I do in the future (and if I remember *crosses fingers*), I'll give it a go. Or if you do it, I'd love to hear about how it went. Sorry I'm not more use!

Re: Ooh! Tastey!

[wolfie74]

Been thinking about how to add hot breakfast cereals to our hotbar at my work. I'll see if I have time tomorrow to test this out and let you know how it goes.

Re: Ooh! Tastey!

[fish_echo]

I'd appreciate that! :)