Favorite Savory Oatmeal

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10:55a, 4/7/25

AG

I am not a huge breakfast person and I typically prefer savory over sweet breakfasts.

Since i really like cheese grits, I thought I would give savory oatmeal a go and made some this morning.

1/2 cup steel cut oats
1 1/2 cup water
pinch of salt
shredded cheese
half a teaspoon of marmite

Overall i was pleased with it. The marmite gave a really boost of umami flavor. I think next time I might try some Loa Gan Ma or smoked soy sauce. I think the real key was steel cut oats over rolled oats. The texture was better and held up well IMO. I might try some Scottish Oats next time.

Anyone else like savory oatmeal and have a recipe they can share?

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9:32p, 4/7/25

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I do a couple types of steel cut oats in the Zojirushi rice cooker: a sweeter one with blueberries and dehydrated strawberries, and a more savory style.

Butter
Half & Half plus water (about 1 part to 2 parts)
Kosher salt
Hot Honey
Sometimes a dash of turbinado cane sugar in the raw
Heaping spoonful of green Hatch chiles (added after the oats are cooked, otherwise they mostly dissolve into the oat slurry)

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5:29a, 4/8/25

AG

Just skip breakfast. It's the least important meal of the day.

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7:08a, 4/8/25

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Salty oatmeal with crumbled up breakfast sausage in it is my favorite breakfast and one my grandpa would make every single morning. It's my breakfast every morning when I have to go into the office because of its simplicity.

You can cook a bunch of breakfast sausage patties ahead of time (best) or get the already cooked ones and heat them up.

I get 2 of the instant oatmeal packets and cook them (at the office, I just use hot water from the coffee maker), then salt to taste, and then crumble up 2 breakfast sausage patties and mix it up. Let stand a few minutes to thicken up, then sit back and enjoy it. It's my morning happiness after fighting the idiots on the road in Houston who are supposedly licensed.

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