oooh! Alton Brown Steel Cut Oats

[Suzanne 3FC]

Alton Brown (Good Eats, FoodTV) cooked oatmeal tonight. His steel cut oats sounded very good, and different from the way I cook them. Of course your particular diet must allow butter and sugar, but it serves 4, so that's not much fat or sugar per serving.

1 tablespoon butter
1 cup steel cut oats
3 cups boiling water
1/2 cup whole milk
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon low-fat buttermilk
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

In a large saucepot, melt the butter and add the oats. Stir for 2 minutes to toast. Add the boiling water and reduce heat to a simmer. Keep at a low simmer for 25 minutes, without stirring.

Combine the milk and half of the buttermilk with the oatmeal. Stir gently to combine and cook for an additional 10 minutes. Spoon into a serving bowl and top with remaining buttermilk, brown sugar, and cinnamon.

[christineu]

ANd if you get them in the bulk department at a health food store, they are pretty cheap too. I use them in baking all the time- they're also know as Irish Oats. I have a great low fat Irish Brown Soda Bread recipe I should post that I use them in- the only fat in the recipe is from the whole wheat and oats...and of course if you put butter on a slice of it when you eat it And its a real Irish soda bread recipe- not an Americanized version with raisins, eggs, yeast, etc.

[Nori71]

I'll have to try this recipe! I use steel cut oats a lot anyways. I get them from a local co-op.