JenniferM | On 29, Mar 2012

This morning I wanted pancakes.  My favorite pancakes are ones topped with banana, maple and walnuts or pecans.  I started thinking about them around 6:00 a.m. this morning and I couldn’t wait to have some!  Now, since my husband made up a batch of about 100 pancakes a couple weeks ago and froze them, this should not have been a problem.  But there was a problem.  I forget to put them in the fridge to let them thaw first.  Sigh.  So then I thought…what if I put those same toppings on some warm steel-cut oats?  I wasn’t sure if I’d like it because I’m not much of an oats person unless they’re cold, like in the Almond Joy Oats I posted a while back.  I thought I’d give it a try and I am so glad I did!  I prefer pecans on my pancakes and would’ve loved to use pecans on these oats, but I used up the last of my pecans a couple days ago.  So I had to go with walnuts instead and this oatmeal was still so delicious.

The sizes for the ingredients are based on a one-cup cooked serving of cooked oats, so if you don’t want that much, just cut these ingredients in half.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup cooked steel-cut oats prepared according to package (I use Bob’s Red Mill Organic Steel-Cut Oats)
• 1 tbsp. pure maple syrup*  (See note below)
• 1/2 small banana, cut into slices
• 1/2 tbsp. chopped walnuts

Directions:

1. Cook your oats according to the package.
2. Drizzle with maple syrup.
3. Add sliced bananas on the top.
4. Sprinkle with the 1/4 tbsp. chopped walnuts.

*Note:  I’ll admit I like warm oats to be really sweet and with 1 tbsp. maple syrup, these were incredibly sweet.  You may want to start out with just 1/2 tbsp. of maple syrup and go from there.

Enjoy!