Banana Bread Oatmeal

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 cups nonfat milk or 3 cups soymilk
• 3 tablespoons firmly packed brown sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 cups oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
• 2 medium ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 cup)
• 2 -3 tablespoons coarsely chopped toasted pecans (see tip)
• nonfat vanilla yogurt or soy yogurt (optional)
• banana, slices (optional)
• pecan halves (optional)

Recipe

• 1 in medium saucepan, bring milk (or soy milk), brown sugar, spices and salt to a gentle boil (watch carefully); stir in oats.
• 2 return to a boil; reduce heat to medium.
• 3 cook 1 minute for quick oats, 5 minutes for old fashioned oats, or until most of liquid is absorbed, stirring occasionally.
• 4 remove oatmeal from heat.
• 5 stir in mashed bananas and pecans.
• 6 spoon oatmeal into six cereal bowls.
• 7 top with yogurt (or soy yogurt), sliced bananas and pecan halves, if desired.
• 8 tip: to toast pecans, spread evenly in shallow baking pan.
• 9 bake at 350°f 5 to 7 minutes or until light golden brown.
• 10 or, spread nuts evenly on microwave-safe plate.
• 11 microwave on high 1 minute; stir.
• 12 continue to microwave on high, checking every 30 seconds, until nuts are fragrant and brown.