Peanut Butter Apple Baked Oatmeal Recipe
If you can’t already tell I love pretty much anything that contains peanut butter. Peanut butter is a nutritious and easy way to add protein and healthy fat to your breakfast. Today I’ll share my recipe for peanut butter apple baked oatmeal, which is one of my favorite meal prep breakfasts and is perfect for chilly winter mornings.
Ingredients
This recipe contains 10 ingredients:
Egg - you can substitute this with a flax or chia egg to make this recipe vegan
Milk - dairy or non-dairy work great, but look for unsweetened varieties for less sugar
Natural peanut butter - or choose another nut or seed butter
Oats - choose gluten-free if needed
Apples - any variety works!
Vanilla extract
Baking powder
Ground cinnamon
Salt
Pecan halves or walnut pieces
Nutrition
Last week, I talked about the three components that make up a healthy breakfast:
Protein
High-fiber carb
Fat
This recipe contains all three! It’s a great meal prep breakfast that can be easily doubled or even tripled and eaten by the whole family all week. One-quarter of this recipe, when made with 1% milk, contains approximately:
496 calories
26 grams of fat
56 grams of carbohydrate
9 grams of fiber
20 grams of protein
Keep in mind that the majority of the fat in this recipe is healthy unsaturated fat from the peanut butter (as long as you are using peanut butter without added oil and sugar) and pecans.
Additionally, though this recipe is higher in carbs, there is no added sugar. The oats, apples, and milk provide natural sugar. Some of the carbs also come from fiber, which helps make this a filling breakfast. If you’d like to lower the carb content, you could try using unsweetened almond or coconut milk, as both are very low in carbs.
Peanut Butter Apple Baked Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1 3/4 cup milk of choice
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup natural peanut butter
- 2 cups rolled old fashioned oats
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Dash of salt
- 2 large apples, diced
- 1/4 cup pecan halves or walnut pieces
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit/175 degrees Celsius. Grease an 8x8 square baking dish and set it aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the milk, egg, peanut butter, and vanilla extract.
- To the same bowl, add the oats, baking powder, ground cinnamon, and salt. Mix well to combine.
- Add the diced apples and gently stir until incorporated.
- Pour mixture into prepared baking dish and top with pecan halves or walnut pieces.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes or until the top is golden brown and oatmeal is set. Let cool for 5-10 minutes and serve warm or store in the fridge for up to 4-5 days, then reheat in the microwave when ready to serve.
Baked oatmeal is the perfect breakfast on a cold winter morning. It’s even better when you made it over the weekend and now all you have to do is heat it up in the microwave during the week! If you’re looking for other baked oatmeal recipes, try my peanut butter berry baked oatmeal, and stay tuned for more baked oatmeal recipes in the future!
