Savory pine nut oatmeal

Oatmeal can be very boring to some.

To others,that know how to change it up, it is the best breakfast choice. You can now see it as a #breakfastidea all over instagram or other social media platforms and you can add pretty much everything from fruits to nuts to seeds to nut butters.. and so the list goes on. 

It will continue to be in the healthy food spectrum whatever you add to it, but sometimes cravings kick in. 

In this case I want to cover the savory cravings and make them „oatmeal approved“!

This recipe is very simple, but the key point of this post is the idea of savory oatmeal and ingredients that complement each other very nicely, so let’s get to it..

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of oats
• 1 cup of milk
• 1 cup of water
• 1 tsp of butter for the oats 
• 2 tbsp of crushed pine nuts
• 1 egg
• 1 cup of chopped mushrooms 
• 2 cups of baby spinach
• 2-3 tbsp of feta cheese crumbles 
• 2 tsp chilli flakes 
• butter or any kind of oil (for the veggies and the egg)
• salt 

Preparation:

Put the oats, milk and water into a pot on a medium-high heat. Add a pinch of salt and the pine nuts and stir for 2-3 minutes. 

Then lower the heat to low-medium and let them thicken and become creamy while checking on them and stirring every now and then.

Meanwhile in a pan heat up some butter (or sunflower oil) and start by cracking the egg + a pinch of salt on top. After a couple of minutes lower the heat just a bit and with a spoon take some of the butter/oil of the pan and splash it continuously on top of the egg for about half a minute.

▶️Just make a sunny side up egg with a runny yolk, okay?

By this time the oatmeal will be ready and so will the egg too. Serve it to a bowl with the egg on top and in the pan of the egg quickly sauté the mushrooms and spinach with a pinch of salt. After a couple of minutes these will be ready to be served too. 

Just add them on top of the oatmeal base, crumble some feta cheese and sprinkle some chilli flakes on top.

That’s it, ready to be enjoyed.