Ginger Peach Oatmeal

Submitted by justcallmetoni

"As one of those people who eat oatmeal 3 or 4 times a week, I am always looking for was to make my daily bowl more interesting. This recent invention was quite wonderful and sophisticated in flavor. Not a kid dish as the ginger adds a bit of spice, use more or less if you are inclined."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Serves: 2-3

ingredients

• 1 cup oats
• 2 cups water
• 2 tablespoons crystallized ginger or 2 tablespoons candied ginger, fine diced
• 1 cup canned peaches in juice
• sugar (optional) or sugar substitute, to taste (optional)
• yogurt (optional) or cream, to taste (optional)

directions

1. Bring water to boil in a small saucepan; add oatmeal and cook 1 minute (if you want you can use the peach juice as part of your 2 cups of liquid).
2. Add finely chopped ginger to the pot (be sure to cut small as it swells quite a bit); continue to cook another 2-3 minutes.
3. Add peaches and cook oatmeal until desired doneness, about 2-4 minutes depending on your grain and eating preferences.
4. Serve topped with sweetener, milk, yogurt or cream, again according to your tastes.

Reviews

[FLKeysJen]

Wonderful and sophisticated is the perfect description! The ginger flavor is quite strong, which I loved, but I imagine most people would want to use less. I cut the peach segments in thirds so they would be bite-sized. I cooked the oatmeal in the juice and that made it sweet enough without adding sugar. Thanks to Toni for sharing your creation!

 

[yogiclarebear]

oh. my. gawsh. used regular smooshed ginger, frozen (thawed) peaches.

 

[Maito]

Yes, this is a nice way to spice up your usual oatmeal! I used about a tsp of the crystallized ginger, and it still permeated the dish fully. I also used a couple of fresh nectarines on top. Nuts would probably go really well with this too. Thanks, Toni!

 

[Debber]

Wow! This was really good! I am not very fond of oatmeal ordinarily, but this was really GOOD! I LOVED the little bursts of ginger every so often, too. I used fresh peaches (quartered, then chopped coarsely, so bigger chunks) and the flavors really came together nicely. I used brown sugar and a bit of milk on mine--and that was a great breakfast. *Made for Aus/NZ Recipe Swap Aug 07*

 

[MsBindy]

Like Jellyqueen, I wasn't too sure about the ginger...But she's right, the more you eat, the better it gets.