Instant pot steel cut oats. Steel cut oats make a warm and healthy breakfast, and today I want to show you how EASY they are to prepare in an Instant Pot electric pressure cooker, so they'll turn out perfectly every time! To make Instant Pot oatmeal you'll add three ingredients to your Instant Pot, turn it on, and come back to perfectly cooked creamy steel cut oats. If you've never tried steel cut oats, they have a heartier, chewier texture than rolled oats.

The oats are cut with steel blades, hence the name "steel-cut" and take longer to cook than instant, ground, or rolled oats. Using the Instant Pot reduces the cook time, for a breakfast. The main difference between Steel Cut Oats, Rolled Oats, and Instant Oats is how much the original oat groat has been processed. You can have Instant pot steel cut oats using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Instant pot steel cut oats

1. You need 1 tsp of Coconut oil (or you could use butter).
2. You need 1 cup of steel cut oats.
3. It's 3 cups of water.
4. It's of Optional 2 cinnamon sticks.
5. Prepare of Optional pinch of salt.
6. Prepare of Topping ideas (also see notes).
7. You need of FRUIT: Banana, cinnamon, dates and maple syrup.

Combine water and oats in an electric pressure cooker (such as Instant Pot (R)). First measure out your steel cut oats. My secret to perfectly creamy steel cut oats in the Instant Pot is to actually use a mixture of water and non-dairy milk. Let your Instant Pot do all the work and you will be rewarded with creamy and pleasantly chewy oats.

Instant pot steel cut oats step by step

1. Grease your inner pot with butter or coconut oil. I put the sauté on to melt the oil for a few seconds to cover the bottom of the pot..
2. Pour in 1 cup of steel cut oats and 3 cups water, alternatively you can cook 2 cups steel cut oats with 6 cups water for a double batch.) I also add a pinch of salt and this is where you can add the cinnamon sticks or even a half teaspoon of cinnamon powder..
3. Cook on High Pressure for 6 minutes and allow pressure to release naturally. Give it a stir..
4. Steel cut oats are still great for meal prep, you can make it ahead and refrigerate for the week. Refrigerate in small containers. To heat up, you can microwave about a minute or heat up on the stove with a little liquid, to loosen. Then stir in milk or soy and add your favorite toppings. I added nuts, milk, blueberries and a tsp of peanut butter to the pic below..
5. Note 1 - Vanilla yogurt and Maple Blueberry Topping - Put a handful of blueberries and 1 tbsp maple syrup in a small pan and heat gently until they soften. Mix 2 tbsp greek yogurt with a few drops of vanilla extract and spoon over hot porridge.Top with the blueberries and syrup..

Works great with any type of milk! Steel cut oats are the healthiest out of all types of oats because they are least processed. Oat groats are harvested and then cut into smaller pieces I love to replace butter with coconut oil in Instant Pot steel cut oatmeal. Adding frozen fruit to hot porridge cools off the oatmeal and melts the fruits to. So I reached out to Instant Pot for clarification and I was told that it was fine to cook steel-cut oats, as long as the oat-water mixture did not fill the pot more Since I knew foam could be a problem when cooking oats in my pressure cooker, I decided to grease the cooking pot before adding the oats and.