Walnut Blueberry Baked Oatmeal

Name: Walnut Blueberry Baked Oatmeal
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 2 cup oats (old-fashioned rolled); 1 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp cinnamon (ground); ½ tsp salt; 1 ½ cup milk; 1 unit egg; ⅓ cup maple syrup; 3 tbsp butter (melted, plus more for the dish); 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1 ½ cup blueberries (fresh or frozen); ½ cup walnuts (chopped)

Sweet & Morning · American

A variant of Baked Oatmeal — An ingredient branch from the authored reference, with its selected additions included in the quantities and method.

11 ingredients · 55 minutes · 2 servings

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Contains dairy, egg, tree nut · usually contains gluten

Restrictions

Containsdairy · egg · tree nutIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Usually containsgluten (oats rolled)The usual version has it. One without it exists — it is the one named here.

Diets

VegetarianPescatarianNo porkNo alcohol · check

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:

2 cup	oats (old-fashioned rolled)
1 tsp	baking powder
1 tsp	cinnamon (ground)
½ tsp	salt
1 ½ cup	milk
1 unit	egg
⅓ cup	maple syrup
3 tbsp	butter (melted, plus more for the dish)
1 tsp	vanilla extract
1 ½ cup	blueberries (fresh or frozen)
½ cup	walnuts (chopped)

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

1 unit

banana (sliced, for the base)

Steps

mix3 min
dry and wet separately
oats + baking powder + cinnamon + salt in one bowl; milk + egg + maple + melted butter + vanilla whisked in another — the melted butter goes into room-temperature milk, not cold, or it re-solidifies into flecks that bake as greasy spots
mix2 min
berries folded last
wet into dry, then two-thirds of the berries folded in gently — frozen berries go in still frozen; thawed ones bleed and dye the whole pan violet. Fold the listed chopped walnuts in with the berries, using only enough strokes to distribute them.
rest10 min
in the buttered dish, remaining berries on top
while the oven heats — ten minutes of soaking lets the oats start drinking the custard, which is the difference between baked oatmeal and granola floating on quiche
bake35 min
375°F, until set at the center and golden at the edges
until the middle no longer jiggles as a liquid and the top has browned — the egg and milk are a light custard binding the oats, and it wants the same respect as any custard: done when barely set, not when bone dry
rest5 min
before cutting into squares — it slices clean once the custard finishes setting, and it reheats all week, which is the real reason this dish exists