Ready-in-the-Morning Rice Cooker or Instant Pot Oatmeal Recipe

by | Dec 17, 2015 | Food, Healthy Habits, Recipe

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This isn’t a picture of my old rice cooker, but it did look similar. This one looks fancier though, as it has a “keep” warm function. Mine had just the one switch. “On”

Is it weird that I love my automatic rice cooker? When I started university, my uncle gave me his old rice cooker. The one that he had used in university. It was mustard yellow. So, you know the era it was born. I kept that until just a few years ago. I used it regularly, and it always worked perfectly well. 

But then I discovered that I could get a rice cooker that I could set to have rice cooked and ready for any time I specified. And I learned that this wonder device could also cook oatmeal. And apparently bake a cake, but I’ve never tried that.

So, now my 5 cup Zojirushi rice cooker is used every single day, at least once, sometimes twice. Almost always for oatmeal in the morning, ready at 7 a.m. exactly. I feel like I have my own chef every morning. Perhaps I’ll nickname him Zoji. 😉

Here’s what I use for my Morning Rice Cooker Oatmeal Recipe.

Rice Cooker or Instant Pot Ready-in-the-Morning Oatmeal Recipe

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Prep Time 3 minutes
Course Breakfast
Servings 2

Equipment

  • 1 rice cooker ideally, an automatic one; you can also use an Instant Pot

Ingredients
  

  • 1/3 cup steel cut oats
  • 1 cup water
  • Small handful of goji berries
  • Small handful of raisins
  • Small handful of pumpkin seeds or almonds
  • Small handful of unsweetened coconut flakes

Instructions
 

  • Place steel cut oats and water in the inner cooking pan.
  • Place the inner cooking pan in the main body of the rice cooker or Instant Pot, plug in the unit, and cook using the "Porridge" setting. If you want to do it overnight, set the timing so that it will be ready the next morning.
  • In the morning, when the rice cooker or Instant Pot turns to Keep Warm, open the lid, stir and add the remaining ingredients.
  • Serve warm.

Notes

I do this every night and time it to be ready in the morning.
Using the Timer function and soaking the oats overnight will help soften the texture. 
I add almond milk or rice, oat, coconut, or other milk in the morning. You could choose to add a tsp of honey or maple syrup. I like adding fresh berries and chia seeds too.
Keyword dairy-free, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian