Slow-Cooked Vanilla Spice Oatmeal

Name: Slow-Cooked Vanilla Spice Oatmeal
Ingredients: Half-and-half or heavy cream, for serving; Half-and-half or heavy cream, for serving; ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 2 tablespoons light brown sugar (optional), plus move for serving; ⅛ teaspoon ground cardamom; ⅛ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg; ½ vanilla bean, split lengthwise; 1 cup steel-cut oats

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pure Vanilla

By Shauna Sever

Published 2012

About

To be frank, I am not a morning person. But if breakfast is ready and waiting before I even get out of bed, it softens the blow a bit. Slow-cooking hearty steel-cut oats requires almost no effort, and the addition of a vanilla bean transforms this humble food into something otherworldly.

Ingredients

1 cup steel-cut oats
½ vanilla bean, split lengthwise
2 tablespoons

Breakfast
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Coat the sleeve of a 5-quart slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray. Place sleeve in slow cooker and combine all ingredients in it; add 3½ cups water and stir to blend. Set slow cooker t