Blackcurrant and Cream Oatmeal
This Blackcurrant Oatmeal has cream, brown sugar, and butter for richness, plus a little lemon zest and black currants for a fruity aroma and flavor.
I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t like cereal. It’s just when you can make things like Poached Eggs or bacon, or this Blackcurrant and Cream Oatmeal, how could I possibly be satisfied with a bowl of bird food?!?!? When I was at Whole Foods a week ago, I was going through the bulk scoop section and went home with some black currants, pondering what I would do with them.
I thought putting them in some oatmeal would be fun, because while you cook them on the stovetop, the black currants plump up beautifully. THIS is a breakfast I will eat any day of the week.
Blackcurrant and Cream Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup rolled oats not quick oats
- pinch of salt
- zest of half a lemon
- 1/4 cup dried black currants
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tbsp cream
- 1/2 tbsp butter
Instructions
- In a saucepan set over medium heat, heat up the milk until it’s simmering.
- Stir in the oats, salt, lemon zest, currants, and brown sugar, and stir for 5 minutes with a wooden spoon.
- Remove the oatmeal from the heat and stir in the cream and butter. Seriously, that’s almost as easy as pouring yourself a bowl of bird food. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition is estimated using a food database and is only intended to be used as a guideline for informational purposes.
6 Comments on “Blackcurrant and Cream Oatmeal”
you just solved what I will do with a handful of black currants harvested from my one token currant bush putting out it’s first every harvest. 🙂 I will have to diet it up a bit without cream and just milk but the zest and currants sounds delicious and something different than my usual almond slivers and blueberries. (thought that’s prob my fave of all time) Some of the first pick of currants dried naturally so using them too will be perfect. Thanks for the idea. I was googling what to do with a half cup of the currants. lol
Hi Amy, that sounds wonderful! Enjoy!
Breakfast of champions for sure! Beautiful black currants. Love the hint of lemon zest.
Doesn’t citrus zest just make everything better?!??!
I love good oatmeal recipes. Oatmeal is like a wonder food for nursing mothers and I get bored eating my pear/apple/peach/whatever fruit the baby is eating oatmeal in the morning. I’ll definitely give this a try with the steel cut oats I have!
Oatmeal is really good for you! Mine is probably a little less good for you (you could just take out the cream/butter)…LOL but I can’t eat oatmeal unless it’s a little bit jazzed up!