This strawberries and cream oatmeal recipe is vegan and loaded with strawberries taking less than 15 minutes to make on the stove top. Fresh strawberries and yogurt added to the strawberry oats gives the most magnificent strawberry oatmeal flavor
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Why You Will Love This Recipe
- Creamy: This oatmeal with strawberries recipe is super creamy and smooth. It just melts in your mouth.
- Naturally sweet: Thanks to fresh strawberries and pure maple syrup, this bowl of strawberries and cream oatmeal has the perfect amount of sweetness.
- Quick and easy: Taking less than 15 minutes to whip up on the stove, breakfast or lunch will be ready super-fast and easy clean-up for this oatmeal strawberries and cream recipe.
If you love oats check out my other flavors Raspberry Overnight Oats, Peanut Butter Overnight Oat, Apple Pie Oats, Chocolate Overnight Oats, Easy Chia Bowl, Vegan Cookie Dough Overnight Oats, Overnight Oats with Coconut Milk and my Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal.
Or if you just like oats in general these Mini Blueberry Muffins made with oat flour or Banana Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies.
Ingredients
For the full list of ingredients and quantities to make this strawberries and cream oatmeal recipe check the recipe card below.
- Fresh Strawberries: Fresh strawberries give this the best and truest strawberry flavor.
- Maple Syrup: I prefer pure maple syrup to sweeten my oatmeal but you could use brown sugar instead also. it will still work to cook the strawberries in also.
- Oats: Old fashioned rolled oats, not quick oats or steel cut oats.
- Oat Milk: I like the creamy-ness oat milk gives but feel free to use whichever milk you like.
- Salt: Helps to bring out more flavor.
- Yogurt: The "cream" in strawberries and cream oatmeal.
Variations
- Milk: Any plant milk will be fine to use.
- Yogurt: Any non-dairy yogurt will work great. For more sweetness try a strawberry flavored yogurt and for less sweetness try a plain vanilla unsweetened yogurt.
- Strawberries: If using frozen strawberries, let them thaw out completely first (overnight in the fridge) otherwise you won’t be able to finely chop them.
- More Strawberry Flavor: If you want to really amp up this recipe you could add some strawberry jam on top after cooking while it's still warm. Or you could blend up some freeze-dried strawberries and stir them in while the oats are cooking, this will give a more tart flavor.
- Toppings: I love to add other fruit on top like raspberries or blueberries. Adding some nut butter on top is also delicious.
- Use a different fruit - you could easily swap the strawberries for any fruit you like as well as the yogurt flavor. Think maybe peaches and cream oatmeal blueberries and cream oatmeal or mixed berries and cream oatmeal YUM!
How to Make this Strawberries and Cream Oatmeal
1. Wash and finely chop the fresh strawberries.
2. Add the strawberries and maple syrup to a stove top pan and cook on medium heat mashing it with a fork for about 3 minutes until it’s slightly sweet smelling.
After simmering for 3 minutes.
3. Add the oat milk and rolled oats with a pinch of salt and stir on medium heat for about 6 minutes until creamy and cooked.
4. Stir in the yogurt and cook for another 1 minute until warm. Let cool and thicken for about 5 minutes and then serve topped with more fresh strawberries and a splash of extra milk if you desire. Serve immediately.
Expert Tips
- Let the oatmeal cool: After the strawberries and cream oatmeal is done cooking, let it cool completely (about 5 minutes) this will allow the oats to thicken up and absorb more liquid without being mushy and overcooked.
- Storing: I do not recommend storing this strawberry oatmeal because the texture will just get clumpy and glue like if you store it in the fridge.
- Make more: You can easily double or triple this recipe to make a bigger batch, just note that it will increase the cook time.
Recipe FAQs
It's super quick! It only takes about 5 minutes to gather up all the ingredients for strawberry and cream oatmeal and 10 minutes of total cook time on the stove top.
Yes, you can use frozen strawberries but it requires a little bit more pre. You will need to fully thaw the strawberries preferably overnight in the fridge. First drain any excess liquid from being frozen and thawing out then just chop them according to the directions.
Yes, if you made homemade strawberry oatmeal, I would suggest eating it fresh after you have cooked and cooled it. I do not recommend storing it because it will just get gummy and the texture will not be very great. If you want to store the strawberry oatmeal, I suggest making a strawberry overnight oats recipe.
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Strawberries and Cream Oatmeal
Ingredients
- ½ cup fresh strawberries (finely chopped)
- 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup sub brown sugar
- ½ cup old fashioned rolled oats
- 1 cup oat milk
- Pinch sea salt
- ½ cup yogurt
Instructions
- Wash and finely chop the fresh strawberries.
- Add the strawberries and maple syrup to a stove top pan and cook on medium heat mashing it with a fork for about 3 minutes until it’s slightly sweet smelling.
- Add the oat milk and rolled oats with a pinch of salt and stir on medium heat for about 6 minutes until creamy and cooked.
- Stir in the yogurt and cook for another 1 minute until warm.
- Let cool and thicken for about 5 minutes and then serve topped with more fresh strawberries and a splash of extra milk if you desire.
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