Banana Bread Baked Oats

This banana bread baked oats recipe is a quick yet healthy breakfast for busy mornings. You can do some meal prep and make individual banana bread oatmeal cups and microwave them every morning for a warm, sweet but healthy breakfast. So with a few ingredients and a couple minutes in the morning you can have a healthy, hearty baked oatmeal breakfast.

You might also like this healthy pumpkin baked oatmeal recipe.

I have a love hate relationship with oatmeal. I crave it but sometimes it bothers my stomach. However I think it’s so delicious because there are many different ways to eat it. I learned how to make baked oats in the microwave so this past week I’ve been experimenting with flavors.

So far this banana bread baked oats recipe is my favorite but perhaps that’s because I am banana bread lover for sure.  It has all the flavor of a piece of banana bread but it’s in a convenient single serving size that you cook in the microwave in minutes. However I do have a chocolate peanut butter coming up so we’ll see.

You can make a batch of these oats and have them for 4 breakfasts so this healthy recipe is the perfect breakfast  for those that like to meal prep. It’s also sugar free and doesn’t use flour so it’s gluten free. I love the flavor and when I have one for a late breakfast I don’t even want lunch because it’s very filling.

Healthy ingredients I used.

Below you can see most of the simple ingredients I used – a ripe banana, whole oats, ground flax seed, Swerve brown sugar sweetener, egg, baking powder, unsweetened almond milk, vanilla extract and chopped pecans.

I used whole oats but you can also use quick oats. You put them in the blender and they act as oat flour essentially and that is what gives this recipe it’s cake like texture. So it doesn’t really matter which you use.

And while I love Swerve brown sugar sweetener you could use your sweetener of choice. Or for more natural sweeteners you can try coconut sugar or even maple syrup. If you want to cut down on even more the of the sugar you can use  green bananas but you might way to adjust with more sweetener.

I like unsweetened almond milk for most of my recipes but you can try other alternatives like coconut milk or even oat milk. 

Lastly I love pecans but other nuts will work like walnuts or you can eliminate them if you don’t like nuts. Other toppings can be mini chocolate chips, shredded coconut, extra banana slices or even cream cheese frosting.

Let’s make some banana bread baked oats.

Note that this recipe makes 4 individual servings.

Step 1: Spray ramekins with cooking spray and set aside. You can also use any kind of microwave safe bowls. I used 6 ounce ramekins by the way.

Step 2: Add the almond milk and then the rest of the ingredients (except nuts) to a high speed blender or food processor. If you want you can add a pinch of salt or even cinnamon. Blend on high until everything is well combined and the oats and banana are completely blended to make the batter

Step 3: Pour the oatmeal mixture evenly into the 4 prepared ramekins. I filled mine up half way with batter. The baked oats rise up a bit while baking in the microwave but will deflate a little when they are done.

Top the oatmeal cups with chopped nuts.

Step 4: Now you can cover the banana bread oatmeal cups that you are eating the rest of the week with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator.

Step 5: When you are ready to bake, place in the microwave (without plastic wrap) and cook for 2 minutes at 50% power. Mine took about 1 minute and 10 seconds. Cooking time may vary.

Start checking at 1 minute and if the top is just a little wet to the touch you can take it out. You don’t want to over cook or they will get dry. Let cool before eating. Please scroll down to view the printable recipe card.

You can also cook them all and store the leftovers in the an airtight container in the freezer. However I find that when you reheat them they are a bit dry but you can eat them more like a muffin this way.

To make these in the oven.

You can bake these oats in the oven. Just preheat the oven to 350°F. Then follow the recipe as it is but place the 4 ramekins on a baking sheet and cook in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. 

Baking time may vary depending on the size of your baking dishes. Check around 15 minutes to see if the middle is set and they are golden brown then it’s done.

More healthy breakfast ideas to try.

I like my breakfast so I have over 90 breakfast recipes, most of which are low carb and all are what I would consider as healthy. Here are few of my favorite recipes.

• keto peanut butter, berry or chocolate whipped cottage cheese
• keto omelet waffles, zucchini waffles and pizza waffles
• keto breakfast bowl and breakfast pizza
• sausage and egg cups
• healthy microwave apple muffin, blueberry muffin and carrot cake muffin
• cherry chocolate baked quinoa and cranberry orange quinoa bowl
• berry chia protein pudding and low carb coffee protein chia pudding

As I mentioned above that banana bread flavor is my favorite baked oatmeal flavor so far but I have a few more to try. This is a great way to use brown bananas sitting on the counter. I hope you like these easy and healthy banana bread baked oats as much as we did.

The nutritional information for 1 serving is 151 calories / 8.4g fat / 19.3g carbs / 3.8g fiber / 5.7g protein