Golden Milk Oatmeal

5 from 4 votes

If you’re looking for an easy way to add anti-inflammatory benefits to your morning oatmeal, this incredible golden milk oatmeal is for you! Your basic oatmeal is paired with warming spices and creamy coconut milk for a hug in a bowl kind of breakfast!

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 10

Total Time 15

Servings servings

Calories 464kcal

Author Caitlin Self, MS, CNS, LDN

Ingredients

¼ cup whole walnuts 1 ounce
⅔ cup old-fashioned rolled oats
1 teaspoon ground turmeric
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
1 cup unsweetened soy milk or any milk of choice
½ cup unsweetened canned coconut milk
¼ teaspoon fine salt
⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper
2 teaspoons raw honey more to taste
2 Tablespoons hemp hearts
Optional: ½ cup blueberries or other fruit

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Add the whole walnuts to a baking tray and roast for about 8 minutes, or until they’re lightly toasted. Be sure to check them after about 5 minutes to ensure they aren’t burning. Remove from the oven and set aside. (*See notes below for the stovetop option.)
Add the oats, spices - turmeric, cinnamon, ginger - soy milk, and coconut milk to a pot over medium-low heat.
Stir well and cook over medium-low heat for about 10 minutes, stirring often. Feel free to adjust to your desired consistency by adding water or more milk.
Stir in the honey, salt, and ground black pepper until well combined.
Dish the golden milk oatmeal into serving bowls. Top with a sprinkle of hemp hearts (1 Tablespoon per bowl), and crumble the toasted walnuts on top. Serve with additional honey, blueberries, or other fruit as desired.

Notes

Be sure to check the full post above for more dietary modifications, ingredient information, and tips for making golden oats.

Stovetop Walnuts: toast the walnuts in a dry skillet on the stove over medium heat for 3-8 minutes, stirring occasionally. Be sure to keep a close eye on them. I prefer them toasted, and when they’re toasted in the oven, they toast more evenly than on the stove. But they can be eaten raw - so you do you!

Stirring the oatmeal constantly breaks down the oats to make a porridge-like consistency, which is my preference. This also helps prevent the oatmeal from sticking to the bottom of the pot. Feel free to use your preferred method of cooking oats, and then add the spices and coconut milk for the “golden milk” flavor.

For more protein: I recommend adding a scoop of collagen powder per serving to increase the protein. Additional protein boosters include ground flax, increasing the hemp hearts, a scoop of Greek yogurt, or adding a nut butter such as almond butter or cashew butter.

One 13.5-oz can of coconut milk contains approximately 1 ⅔ cups of coconut milk.

Nutrition label, as always, is just an approximation, and does not include optional ingredients (in this case, blueberries). In this recipe, it does include the walnuts, honey, and hemp hearts as listed in the ingredients.

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