Hello, friends! In the morning I have a very pleasant ritual that I never change.

This is morning breakfast. I always eat a bowl of oatmeal in the morning. Sometimes I alternate with rice porridge, which I learned to cook from sticky rice.

But I really love oatmeal made with traditional rolled oats. And I try to add various fruits and berries to my oatmeal. It could be simple raisins, apples with cinnamon, mango or a spoonful of jam.

But oatmeal with banana is especially good. The banana, once in the hot porridge, begins to melt and gives it an additional creamy-sweet taste. Therefore, why change what brings me pleasure in the morning? It might be boring as hell for some people to eat porridge for breakfast, but for me it's damn delicious. And I never get tired of this healthy breakfast!

Oatmeal, sir!

Oatmeal is rich in fiber, fats and protein compounds, and is an easily digestible product. In the morning, this is a wonderful hearty breakfast, and you won’t gain extra pounds from it. Porridge helps normalize intestinal motor function - and this is the most important thing in the morning meal. I won’t even write about the vitamins and minerals in oatmeal; it’s really very useful.

I buy regular rolled oat flakes, which take a long time to cook. I think that instant porridges lose a lot of vitamins and nutrition during processing. Well that's my opinion.

Yes, can anyone answer me? Why are oat flakes called rolled oats?

I don't know what English oatmeal tastes like? And I seriously doubt whether they eat oatmeal at all. But after visiting a local cafe in Hua Hin where they serve English breakfasts, I realized that the British eat something completely different from what I thought.

The cafe is clean and tidy. Strong wooden tables and chairs, a waving English flag at the entrance. And the establishment's regulars.

Having ordered a portion of the English breakfast each, we began to wait for the food. It was still early morning and I was hungry. 🙂 When they brought us huge portions of food, I completely lost faith that the British eat oatmeal for breakfast. 😯 Moreover, we chose "medium portion".

On this day I tried English breakfast for the first time:

  • 2 fried eggs
  • 2 toasts, fried in oil
  • beans in tomato sauce
  • potatoes fried in oil
  • mushrooms
  • a thin meat sausage like a frankfurter, but quite tasty.
  • fried bacon - 2 large pieces. Oh my stomach!
  • lightly roasted tomato

And we were given to him:

  • large pot of freshly brewed tea
  • milk
  • jam for toast
  • sugar

I’m writing this myself in shock, how were we able to eat such huge portions? 😯 Then I realized how Winnie the Pooh felt, stuck in the doorway of the Rabbit’s house. It suited me better as lunch and dinner, if you divide the portion into 2 times. Everything was delicious, but it was very greasy and difficult for me to eat in the morning.

Then I realized that I had to look for my favorite oatmeal and prepare a delicious and healthy breakfast myself. And as soon as we moved to live in a place where there is a kitchen, I immediately bought oatmeal.

Imagine, oatmeal is brought here straight from Australia. 🙂 I like the McGarrett brand. Clean flakes and cooked well.

How to cook oatmeal

I cook oatmeal in a rice cooker, or in our opinion, a multicooker. I add all the ingredients – oatmeal, milk, water and start cooking.

I like my porridge a little runny, so for every 1.5 cups of oatmeal I take 3 cups of water and 3 cups of milk.

I cook the porridge for about 10 minutes. I don’t close the rice cooker yet and sometimes stir the porridge. As soon as the porridge boils, cook for another 5 minutes, close the lid and turn off the rice cooker. Let the porridge simmer for another 10 minutes. In the meantime, you can do some light exercises 😉

I add salt to taste to the prepared portions to suit my taste. And of course my favorite bananas. I use them instead of sugar. Banana in oatmeal gives it some softness and such a delicate creamy taste that adding anything else is unnecessary.

Banana oatmeal recipe

Cooking time: 25 minutes

Ingredients(for 2 servings):

  • 1.5 tbsp. oatmeal
  • 3 tbsp. water
  • 3 tbsp. milk
  • 2 ripe bananas
  • sea ​​salt and a little sugar

Note: 1 measuring cup = 140 ml.

Cooking diagram:

  1. Place all ingredients into the slow cooker
  2. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally with a spoon to prevent it from burning.
  3. As soon as it boils, cook for another 5 minutes, then cover with a lid and turn off the multicooker.
  4. In 10 minutes the oatmeal will steam on its own and arrive
  5. Cut a ripe banana and add to your portion
  6. Salt and sugar to taste

While the oatmeal finishes cooking on its own in the slow cooker, I go to the gym and do some exercises. Yes, I want to brag to you. I have already lost 3 kg. Watch the video at the end of the article, where I show my exercises.

Yes, in the video I decided not to repeat myself with a banana and prepared oatmeal with raisins and jackfruit. It turned out amazingly delicious. I didn’t expect this myself. In the hot porridge, the sunny jackfruit slices soften a little and you get something like sweet jam with pieces of fresh fruit.

Video recipe “oatmeal with fruits”

Try different options and you will never get bored with oatmeal. And the morning will be joyful and delicious :) I hope I have motivated you to eat porridge in the morning. 😉 I wish you a good day and a pleasant breakfast!

PS: when we got tired of oatmeal, we began to diversify our breakfast :)

Ingredients:

  • milk – 1 glass;
  • oatmeal – 100 g;
  • banana - 1 piece;
  • sugar - to taste;

Preparation:

  1. For oatmeal, you need to take only fresh milk so that it does not boil. It will taste best if you take full-fat milk, or even better, homemade milk, without any unnecessary additives. The milk must be poured into a fireproof saucepan and put on fire.

  2. When the milk starts to boil, you need to add it to the oatmeal. If desired, the oatmeal can be rinsed under running cold water several times. Next, cook the porridge over low heat for about five minutes. You can add sugar at your discretion.
  3. While the porridge is cooking, you need to prepare the banana: peel it, cut it into several pieces and put it in a blender bowl. Even overripe bananas are suitable for this: with them the porridge will be sweeter and tastier.
  4. Add the prepared porridge to the banana and grind everything until smooth at low speed, no more than a couple of minutes.
  5. This porridge can be fed to both adults and children.

Ingredients:

  • banana - 20 g;
  • water - 300 g;
  • unsalted butter “Peasant” - 5-10 g;
  • oatmeal - 200 g;
  • table salt - 1 g;

Preparation:

  1. I rinse the oatmeal well.
  2. I pour 1.5 glasses of water in combination with 1 glass of oatmeal and 1.5 glasses of water.
  3. Add salt and cook on the gas stove.
  4. Cook the porridge over medium heat for 5-10 minutes, removing the foam during the boiling process.
  5. When the water has almost boiled away and the porridge is ready, add a teaspoon of butter. That's all, the oatmeal is ready.
  6. Place it on a plate and grate a banana (or slice it into circles and place it on a plate.
  7. All that remains is to start breakfast and get a lot of vitamins that this porridge contains.


As you can see, calorie content is 95.00 kcal per 100 g.

If you don’t like oatmeal on its own, prepare it with bananas and honey. This is not only a surprisingly tasty combination of products, but also a healthy and satisfying dish that is ideal for breakfast.
Recipe contents:

Oatmeal is a healthy, satisfying and balanced porridge that should be present in our diet. It is very useful to eat it in the morning, because... This is a great alternative to sausage sandwiches. Do not forget that oatmeal is necessary for every growing organism. Therefore, if the child refuses it, then take the proposed recipe as a note. Thanks to this food, your little child will be strong and healthy. Among other things, oatmeal improves brain activity and normalizes digestion, and in combination with a banana it gives energy and gives strength. Bananas are no less healing. They are useful for pathologies of the kidneys, liver, diseases of the stomach and duodenum. It is worth noting that bananas can be consumed even if you have diabetes.

In this review we will cook porridge in water. But if you wish, you can cook it with milk. Buy instant oatmeal; just pour boiling water over it and wait a short amount of time. If you do not have instant cereal, cook it for 10-15 minutes. If you wish, you can dilute the finished porridge not only with bananas and honey, but also with nuts, dried fruits, chocolate chips, berries... Add additional ingredients after the final preparation of the oatmeal. Otherwise, other components may add excessive sweetness, which will ruin the taste of the porridge.

  • Calorie content per 100 g - 120 kcal.
  • Number of servings - 1
  • Cooking time - 10 minutes

Ingredients:

  • Instant oat flakes - 100 g
  • Banana - 1 pc.
  • Honey - 1 tsp.
  • Ground cinnamon - 0.5 tsp.
  • Water - 200 ml

Step-by-step preparation of oatmeal in water with banana:


1. Place oatmeal in a bowl.


2. Boil drinking water and pour in the oatmeal. Close it with a lid and leave for 10 minutes for the flakes to swell. They should be saturated with water and increase in volume.


3. Peel the banana, cut into pieces and place in a bowl. Take a fork and mash it until it becomes a smooth paste. Although, if you wish, you can not do this, but add it in chopped form to the finished porridge.


4. Add honey and cinnamon to the banana mixture and stir so that the products are evenly distributed.


5. When the oatmeal is ready, combine it with the banana-honey mixture and stir. Serve the dish warm. But if the porridge cools down, it will not lose its beneficial and tasteful qualities.

A tasty, healthy porridge for children over one year old. Oatmeal contains many carbohydrates, nutrients and vitamins necessary for a child's body. It is introduced into complementary foods after seven months, but since our porridge will be made with milk and with the addition of banana, it is advisable to introduce it closer to one year.

Oatmeal with milk and banana for a child: recipe with photos step by step

Products:

  • Milk - 400 g (RUR 59.55 - 1 l)
  • Oat flakes - 150 g (83.3 r.r. - 400 g)
  • Small banana - 1 pc. (107 rubles - 1 kg)
  • Salt - a pinch
  • Butter - 5 g (46.11 rubles - 200 g)

Portion: 2

Cooking time: 10 minutes

Step-by-step photo recipe on how to prepare oatmeal with milk and banana for a child:

We take oat flakes; thin ones do not need to be sorted and peeled, but can be cooked immediately.

Pour water into the bottom of the pan and bring to a boil. Then pour in the milk and bring it to a boil. Since our porridge is for children, it does not need to be cooked very thick, so it will be tastier and easier to swallow. Add a little salt and you can pour out the flakes.

As soon as the milk and cereal boils, reduce the heat and cook for 5 minutes.

Remove from heat, add oil and let simmer for 2-3 minutes.

Grate the banana on a fine grater.

Pour it into a plate, where we then add our porridge. It is not recommended to give sugar to children under 2 years of age, but a banana adds sweetness and satiety and fills our porridge with vitamins. In addition, banana practically does not cause allergies.

Milk oatmeal with banana puree is a simple, very healthy and light breakfast.
A successful combination of milk oatmeal with fruit improves blood composition and has a beneficial effect on the functioning of the stomach.

Oatmeal is recognized by scientists as one of the best sources of plant fiber and complex carbohydrates. A bowl of oatmeal contains a quarter of the daily requirement of soluble fiber, and its chemical composition includes all the most important components for humans, such as potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, chromium, iron, manganese, iodine, fluorine, zinc, cobalt, vitamins A, E, B1, B2, B6, K.

Oatmeal contains a huge amount of proteins, it improves all metabolic processes, promotes the growth and development of muscle tissue.

For residents of large cities with unfavorable environmental conditions, oatmeal is simply irreplaceable for maintaining and strengthening health.

Ingredients for chicken canapés

1/4 cup oatmeal
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup milk -
1 banana.
Fresh berries (blueberries, cranberries, currants)
Nuts to taste

Preparation

Place oatmeal in a small saucepan.

Add water, milk and stir.

Place over medium heat and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.

Reduce heat and cook, stirring, for 3-5 minutes. The oatmeal should become creamy.

Peel the banana, finely chop or mash until pureed and add to the finished porridge.

Pour the porridge into plates, add fresh berries and nuts.

Bon appetit!

Benefits of oatmeal

Oatmeal is well digested, easily absorbed and, moreover, helps reduce cholesterol levels in the blood and reduces the rate of absorption of carbohydrates. This gives you energy and a feeling of fullness for a long time.

Oatmeal stimulates the gastrointestinal tract well. It contains a lot of biotin, which is very beneficial for the skin and prevents the development of dermatitis.

There are many recipes for making oatmeal. Among them are not only porridges. Jelly and cocktail drinks are also good from oats. Show your imagination - and oatmeal will sound new in every dish. You can add honey, nuts, and fruits to the porridge.

A small amount of lemon juice will complement the taste with interesting notes. Oatmeal is an ideal food for those who strive for economical and healthy eating.

Bananas

Bananas contain a lot of potassium, iron, calcium and phosphorus, plant fiber, vitamins A, B, C, and folic acid.

Bananas are useful for both weight gain and weight loss. Bananas are easily digestible, improve stomach function and give you a feeling of fullness for a long time.

They contain a lot of iron and therefore bananas improve blood composition and have a good effect on the immune system.