Blueberry Baked Oats, Pan Version
Baked oatmeal rebuilt for a stove and a lid. Powdered milk and egg do the setting.
- calories
- 520
- weight
- 4 oz
- cal / oz
- 130
- protein
- 14 g
- serves
- 2, scales
- prep
- 5 min
- cook
- 15 min
- total time
- 20 min
- water
- 300 ml boiled
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Breakfast
- Canister stove
- Liquid fuel
- Car camping
- Basecamp
- Backpacking
- Vegetarian
- Nut free
- One pot
- Pre-mix at home
- Shelf stable
- Basic
Ingredients
| Rolled oats | 1 1/2 cups | old-fashioned, not quick |
|---|---|---|
| Powdered whole milk | 1/3 cup | reconstitutes into the custard |
| Powdered whole egg | 2 tbsp | stands in for 2 eggs |
| Maple sugar or brown sugar | 3 tbsp | syrup and honey leak |
| Coconut oil | 2 tbsp | solid below 76F, so it travels clean |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp | |
| Nutmeg | 1/4 tsp | |
| Baking powder | 1 tsp | |
| Salt | 1/2 tsp | |
| Vanilla powder | 1/2 tsp | extract is alcohol and glass, skip it |
| Dried blueberries | 1/2 cup |
Method
- Melt the coconut oil in the pot over a low flame, then swirl it up the sides so nothing welds itself down.
- Pour in 300 ml of water and bring it to a bare simmer. Kill the heat.
- Dump the whole premix bag in and stir hard for thirty seconds. The egg powder needs to hydrate before it sets.
- Put the lid on and return it to the lowest flame you can hold. Ten minutes, no stirring.
- Cut the heat and let it sit covered another five minutes. It firms up off the stove, not on it.
Baked oatmeal is a custard that happens to be full of oats. Take away the oven and you still need the custard, so the eggs and milk come along as powder and the pot lid does the work the pan used to. Low flame and a covered pot is close enough to baking, as long as you accept a softer edge instead of a browned one.
Three swaps matter. Maple syrup and honey are heavy and they leak, so dry sugar goes in the premix instead. Coconut oil is solid at most temperatures you will carry it at and it greases the pot before anything else goes in, which is the difference between one-pot cleanup and scraping. Dried blueberries rehydrate on their own in the simmer, and unlike fresh ones they do not turn the whole pot purple.
Packing
Everything dry goes in one bag: oats, milk powder, egg powder, sugar, spices, baking powder, salt, vanilla powder, blueberries. Coconut oil rides in a small screw-top jar. Two bags feed four.
Variations
- Dried apple and extra cinnamon instead of blueberries.
- A scoop of vanilla protein powder for another 20 g, cut the milk powder to 1/4 cup.
- No stove: cold-soak the same bag overnight and eat it as thick oats. It will not set.
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