Name: Healthy Apple Pie Oatmeal
Prep time: 2 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 7 min
Ingredients: 60 g Oats; 350 ml Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Unsweetened; 1 apple, (grated); 2 tbsp maple syrup; 0.5 tsp cinnamon; Apple slices and pecans for serving (optional)

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How do you like the sound of starting your morning with the warming taste of apple pie, without all the calories and fat? It sounds good to me! This Apple Pie Oatmeal is a delicious vegan breakfast made with Blue Diamond Unsweetened Almond Breeze Milk, shredded apple, cinnamon and some maple syrup for extra sweetness. It makes getting out of bed on a cold morning that little bit easier!

Apple Oatmeal

Can you think of a tastier food combination than apple and cinnamon? They are the perfect match, especially at this time of year. If you are looking to add more fruit to your diet, then this is a good recipe to start with as the apple is shredded and cooked with the porridge, making it nice and soft. It's a great recipe for toddlers too!

Vegan Porridge

We can sometime get in a bit of a rut with always having eggs for breakfast, but we are trying to eat more vegan meals, so we are having less eggs in the morning and more porridge. It's super easy to make porridge vegan - just use Blue Diamond Unsweetened Almond Breeze Milk (as it's deliciously creamy) and swap any honey for maple syrup and skip the yoghurt.

Blue Diamond Almond Milk

The Blue Diamond Unsweetened Almond Breeze range includes Unsweetened Almond Breeze, Original Almond Breeze and Almond Breeze Barista Blend and all of the drinks are made from Californian almonds. They are a lactose free, dairy free and soya free drink.

With no added sugars, Unsweetened Almond Breeze is just 13 calories per 100ml – that’s less than half the calories of skimmed milk and unsweetened soya milk. It’s also a source of calcium and is low in sat fat. You can pick it up in the chilled and long-life milk aisle.

We have been adding the Barista Blend (bought from Ocado or Waitrose) to our morning coffee and it tastes just like something you would get from a coffee shop. Small changes like that, swapping dairy milk for Almond Breeze vegan milk in your coffee, are great ways to take part in World Vegan Month.

Apple Pie Oats

You know when you wake up craving dessert? No, just me? Well if and when you do, you need to make yourself some of this. All the delicious flavour you get from an apple pie, but vegan and lower in calories.

Now, it's not just the apples and almond milk that make this breakfast worthy of getting out of bed, but the cinnamon too. Just a little bit adds so much flavour, without adding lots of extra calories and it's also seen as a superfood.

A whole tablespoon (not that you would want to eat that much in one go) has under 20 calories in it and it is also high in calcium, fibre and magnesium. It is also anti inflammatory and helps to lower cholesterol too. Win!

Ingredients needed to make Healthy Apple Pie Oatmeal (serves 2)

60g Oats
350ml Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Unsweetened
1 apple, shredded
2 tbsp maple syrup
0.5 tsp cinnamon
Apple slices and pecans for serving (optional)

How To Make Healthy Apple Pie Oatmeal - Step by Step:

One: Grate the apple using a coarse grater.
Two: Put the oats, Blue Diamond Almond Milk, shredded apple, maple syrup and cinnamon in to a pan and gently head for 4-5 minutes until thickened. Serve in bowls with apple slices and pecans on top.

Other Oat Recipes To Try:

Banana Oat Muffins
Pumpkin Overnight Oats
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Oat Squares
Triple Berry Oat Smoothie

Some extra tips for this Healthy Apple Pie Oatmeal:

Add some pecans on top when serving for some extra crunch.
Want more spice in it? Add some nutmeg and ginger too.
You could swap the apple for pear, or use a mixture of them both.
Want this on a warm day? Make it as overnight oats. Just mix everything together the night before and put in the fridge overnight. Top with extra apple and pecans before serving.

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