Wake Up with Savoury Oatmeal: A Recipe for a Deliciously Unexpected Breakfast
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Oatmeal is a breakfast staple, but it can quickly become a bore. The typical partners for breakfast oats – blueberries, bananas, brown sugar or other subtle sweets – are fine, but lead to oat-exhaustion almost immediately. If you’re looking for something savoury to rattle your shoulders and wake you up in the morning, then you need to try this recipe for savoury oatmeal.
The idea that oatmeal has to be sweet is utter poppycock. You can give your oats a savoury push by adding an egg (or just the egg yolk) to the mix, and giving it the risotto treatment. Or, take a page from The Kitchn’s James Park and try a cheesy, savoury oatmeal with kimchi.
But don’t stop there. Oatmeal doesn’t have to be the bulk of the dish. Instead, rebalance the scales to for a ratio that’s closer to 50/50. Fry up crumbled sausage with sambal, bring out the kimchi, steam an egg, chop coriander, scallions and fresh ginger, and take out your container of fried garlic. Boil your rolled oats with a cube of chicken bullion, and assemble a glorious meal you can look forward to.
To build a bowl of oatmeal that’ll wake you up, grab ingredients you would put on a breakfast sandwich, or on top of a pizza. These aren’t garnishes; they’re centre-stage ingredients. Think cheese, bacon, pepperoni, roasted tomatoes, olives, pickles, and hot sauce. Decide if you want to drop everything into the pot of oats and mix it in, so the cheese melts and all of the flavours mingle, or if you want to add each component in its own little area and build different combinations in every spoonful.
This savoury oatmeal recipe will obliterate all oat-norms. The half-cup of oatmeal takes on a supporting role, propping up every spoonful of egg, sausage, and garlic, and providing a little relief from the growing heat of the sambal. The result is a bowl of oatmeal that is flavorful and salty, and absolutely delicious.
Give this savoury oatmeal recipe a try and you’ll never look at oats the same way again. Make this recipe and wake up to a delicious and unexpected breakfast.
Real-Meal Oatmeal
Ingredients:
1 link sausage, casing off
1 teaspoon sambal
1 tablespoon kimchi
½ cup old-fashioned oats
1 chicken bullion cube
1 cup water
1 scallion, sliced into rounds
1 half-inch nub fresh ginger, chopped into matchsticks
1 egg, steamed or boiled and cut in half
1 teaspoon fried garlic
Pinch freshly torn coriander
Instructions:
1. In a frying pan over medium-low heat, fry the sausage and break it up into small bits. When it’s halfway cooked, add the sambal and continue frying and breaking it apart. Push the sausage over to one side of the pan and add the kimchi to fry and heat up.
2. In a small pot over medium-low heat, heat the water and bullion cube to a boil. Add the oats and stir. Simmer as usual and turn off the heat when thickened.
3. Serve the oatmeal in a bowl and fill with the sausage crumbles and sambal oil, kimchi, egg halves, scallion, ginger, coriander, and fried garlic.
Making oatmeal that’s savoury and delicious is easier than you think. With this recipe, you can wake up to a bowl of oatmeal that’s flavorful and salty, and absolutely delicious. Give this savoury oatmeal recipe a try and you won’t ever look at oats the same way again. The post Make Oatmeal That Will Wake You Up appeared first on Lifehacker Australia.
