Baked Protein Oats

I’ve been loving baked oats during postpartum - 5-10mins of prep, 30 mins of baking and you have 6 generous breakfasts / snacks ready to go. Serve as is, or pile on some toppings of your choice. I like Greek yoghurt, hemp seeds, nuts and some maple syrup if I fancy something sweeter. You can get really creative with flavours - make it chocolate orange by adding some orange zest, an apple pie variety, mixed berries etc. etc.

Serves 6

Ingredients:

• 3 ripe bananas

• 150g oats*

• 60g whey protein powder

• 4 tbsp chopped mixed nuts

• 60g dark chocolate (75% cacao)

• 1tsp ground cinnamon

• 1tsp vanilla essence

• 1tbsp ground flaxseed

• 1tbsp chia seeds

• 1tsp baking powder

• 2 large eggs

• 400ml whole milk

• Optional: 1 tbsp maple syrup or honey**

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C

• Mash the bananas in an oven dish. Add the oats, protein powder, nuts, dark chocolate, cinnamon, vanilla, ground flaxseed, chia seeds and baking powder. Mix well

• Add the egg and whole milk and mix well. Add the maple syrup and honey if using

• Pop in the oven for 30 minutes, or until just set

• Store in the fridge!

*I use jumbo oats, but if you’d like a fluffier texture, use porridge oats - or give your jumbo oats a few pulses in the blender to break them up

**you may want to add honey / maple syrup - it depends how ripe the bananas are. Or, omit the honey and maple syrup and just add when serving so you can customise it how you like for each person in the household

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