There's nothing like waking up to a delicious aroma from your crock pot cooking you breakfast overnight while you were sleeping! How about the fantastic smell of pumpkin pie for breakfast?!!! Yes, you can eat these breakfast without any guilt!
Super healthy steel cut oats combined with pumpkin puree make this a winning breakfast for any household!
It doesn't look like much here but wait till you stir it up!!!
This recipe has been on my mind for weeks, as soon as the fall cooler weather started here in RI I knew I wanted to adapt my Overnight Banana Steel Cut Oats to make this with pumpkin.
Stir up up upon waking and behold the pumpkin and oats of your dreams!! You can add your sweetener during the cooking time or leave it without added sugar and everyone can add their own sweetener of choice on top. Perfect either way. 🙂
I topped mine with a little honey and a sprinkle of nutmeg!!
Crock Pot Pumpkin Pie Steel Cut Oats
Ingredients
- 1 cup steel cut oats
- 3 cups water
- 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- optional: ½ cup honey or 2 teaspoons vanilla liquid stevia*
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in your slow cooker and cook on low for 8 hours. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
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About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Pete
A rice cooker with a porridge setting is the easiest and best way I've come across to make steel cut oatmeal. I've been making this recipe in a rice cooker for quite awhile now.
Pumpkin Oatmeal
1 ¼ cup Steel Cut Oats
½ cup Rolled Oats
¼ cup Brown Sugar
½ cup Honey
½ cup Raisins
¼ cup Chopped Dates
1 ½ cup Skim Milk
2 ½ cup Water
1/8 tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
1/8 tsp Cinnamon
1/8 tsp Cardamom
1 can (15oz or 1 ¾ cup) Pumpkin
Probably a lot more sugars than most of your followers would use but the brown sugar and honey could easily be halved. I'm a bee keeper so I normally overdo the honey just because i have so much on hand.
Makes 7 1cup serving at around 320 calories each.
Trish
Yea! Another great recipe to use for holiday house guests. Thank you!!!
Brenda
thanks!
vincenchildersburg
To Megan and everyone else trying to find out where to buy steel cut oats. I've had a friend in California tell me they found them at a 0.99 cent store. Since we no longer have one where I live I went to Big Lots! I found a small container of them for $2.00 a piece. I've made the apple/cinnamon and it turned out great! Will be making the Pumpkin steel cut oats tomorrow night! Just need 1 more ingredient to do so. For those who only have the larger crocks remember you can refrigerate/freeze leftovers for future breakfasts!
Enjoy!
Vince
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Diane
Vince,
I am so glad you mentioned freezing! I have seen pre-cooked Steele cut oats at Trader Joe's so I assumed it would be something worth trying.
Thanks!
Megan @ MegGoesNomNom
This looks so homey and delicious! I just wish I had some steel-cut oats on hand! I only have old-fashioned. :-/
Jo
Is this gluten free? I cannot have Lactose or gluten.
Brenda
there is no lactose in this recipe. as far as gluten free, you need to check with your doctor for the steel cut oats you should purchase.
Dale
Have made this a couple times, don't like the taste of the sweetener, but without it it is absolutely delicious, I put it in my rice cooker before bed and put on the timer so so good!!! We sweeten in the morning to our taste, I also double the recipe and the family reheats in the morning for a couple days
jill
thanks so much for posting this recipe. my kids, husband, and I LOVE it. a friend told me about sugarfreemom.com. i am so happy she did!!
halley
will this be "re-heatable?" i won't be able to eat all the portions at once! how long will it be good for?
jill
it is great re-heated ! i ate it again for lunch. enjoy !!
Laura
Can I use rolled oats? If so, what adjustments do I need to make?
Sounds delicious!
Thanks!
Bonnie L.
I found this recipe via Pinterest. I have it in my crock pot and can't wait to try in the morning. I think my one-year-old son will also enjoy this. Thanks! 🙂
Whittney
Just put it all together in the crock pot, can't wait to try it in the morning!! 🙂
Leigh Anne
Made these overnight & ate them this AM.....so very yummy! It was wonderful to wake up to the pumpkin smell 🙂 This is going to be a winner this winter for sure! One thing I forgot was to spray the inside of my crock pot with non-stick spray.....it took some soaking, but next time....I will be prepared!
Thanks for the yummy recipe!
Vashti
We loved it! I omitted the honey and added a little coconut sugar in the
AM. This ones a keeper 🙂
Heather
The only steel cut oats I could find say 'Quick Cook' Steel Cut Oats...is that not going to work?
Brenda
You will probably need to reduce cooking time to only 3-4 hours. I've not tried quick steel cut in the crock pot.
Heather
my husband went out last night and found me the regular ones. I was so excited to try it this morning...what did i do wrong? there was no pumpkin flavor 🙁 I followed the directions exactly. So bummed! Tonight it will have to be the Banana steel cut oats
Brenda
I'm sorry that happened. I don't know why you couldn't taste a pumpkin flavor. Did you use the pumpkin spice? Maybe you need to increase the pumpkin spice by a teaspoon. We tasted the flavor right away especially because it is without sugar and then you can add whatever you like. What sweetener did you use?
Heather
yes, i used the pumkpin spice but no sweetner. I am not big on sweetners. i am so bummed! is there a difference in Pumpkin Puree and just canned Pumpkin? We had organic Pumpkin (in a can). We were wondering if maybe that was the problem. regardless, I'm still so excited to try other recipes 🙂
Brenda
Well I'm glad you're still willing to try other recipes. 🙂
Monica
I found that without any sweetener the pumpkin flavour didn't really register on my tongue, but when we added maple syrup it tasted exactly like pumpkin pie!!
Sheilah
What size crock pot do you suggest using? I have a 4 Qrt and an 8 Qrt.
Brenda
I used my 4 qt for this recipe.
Bonnie
After it's cooked, how much is 1 serving? 1 cup?
Made this for today & we loved it!
Brenda
1 cup of dry steel cut oats makes about 4 cups cooked. So this is then divided into 4 servings but also added in is the pumpkin so you have a little over a cup per serving.
Bonnie
ok-thanks! it was delicious.
Jessica@AKitchenAddiction
Love this! What a great breakfast!
Kathy Britt
I have just found your website, and I am definitely hooked! Love, love, love! 🙂 I was planning to make your meatloaf reciped yesterday, and found that the recipe no longer connected when clicking on it. Would it be possible for you to post that again please? I am hoping to try again tonight. Thanks for sharing your wonderful recipes!
Brenda
Thanks for letting me know, I had a bad link. Here it is: https://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/meatloaf-with-oats/ and thank you!
Lori
I made this last night and had it this morning topped with some homemade pumpkin granola. VERY yummy!
Fancy Nancy
crock pot AND pumpkin pie...now you're talking my love language here!!
Sarah
Love this, just set this up to have in the morning. I doubled the recipe because I will eat this like crazy and need to eat more due to training for races. However, I added this into my program to calculate calories using the brands I used and the calories are FAR lower than what you have.....why is that? How do you calculate your calories? Did you calculate in your honey or sugar sub? I did it without any added honey, stevia or natural sweetener. I like to add as I go to get the right taste. Maybe it's just the brands I use.
Brenda
I calculate using nutritiondata.com and then use the weight watchers online for points. Not sure why you have a change. My steel cut oats are from Trader Joes and are 150 calories for 1/4 cup dry. I used 1 cup in the recipe. I will recheck it and let you know.
I just rechecked it on nutritiondata.com and had the wrong amount of steel cut oats pulled in!!! YOU Are so awesome! thank you so much!!! Now that is way lower and better!
Sarah
Awesome! 🙂 I'm a health junkie and I always have to add things into my food diary accordingly. Glad to help and now we can have a really BIG bowl of oatmeal 😉 I love big bowls of oatmeal in the morning. I had this this morning, woke up to the delicious smell of pumpkin and spices. Mmmmmm yum! Added some stevia and a little drizzle of honey and a touch of cinnamon on top. Yum yum yum, this will keep me going at least until lunch. Thank you for the recipe
The Better Baker
Oh my YES! I've made a very similar recipe and it's out of this world delicious! Your photos make everything look soooo inviting! Thanks for sharing.
Aggie
I can not wait to try this!! I have a ton of steel cut oats to use up. I can smell this from here 🙂
Brenda
Thanks Aggie!
Susan
Would old-fashioned oats work for this recipe, or would they get too mushy? Looks yummy!
Brenda
No the water amount is specifically for using steel cut. Maybe try my apple oatmeal recipe for the crock pot and replace the apple with pumpkin.
Katie
Yay! I am so excited to try try this, I hate making fresh oats in the morning (or anything for that matter). I love overnight oats in the summer, but like to eat them hot in the fall and winter, this is an easy solution I hadnt thought of.