This easy recipe for Baked Chai Spice Oatmeal, with its caramelized topping, transforms old-fashioned oats into part of an exquisite breakfast.
Baked Chai Spice Oatmeal
Course: BreakfastDifficulty: Easy9
servings10
minutes40
minutes50
minutesStart by melting the butter, so that it has a chance to cool.
Ingredients
½ cup (packed) brown sugar
1½ tsp cardamom, divided
2 cups old-fashioned oats
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ground ginger
¼ tsp ground clove
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp black pepper
2 cups milk
4 Tbs butter, melted and cooled, plus more for greasing the pan
2 eggs
Zest of 1 orange
½ cup raisins
Plain Greek yogurt, for serving
Powdered sugar for dusting, optional
Directions
- Grease an 8″x8″ glass baking pan. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Place the sugar into a medium mixing bowl. Then, remove and reserve 1/3-cup of it. Add 1 tsp cardamom to the mixing bowl. Add remaining dry ingredients to the mixing bowl and mix with your hands, making sure you’ve broken up the brown sugar. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients (including the butter) and the zest until well mixed, 200 strokes. Pour the dry into the wet and stir. Thoroughly stir in the raisins. Pour into the baking dish and gently – so as not to disturb the butter you greased the pan with – spread out the oats.
- Bake until the sides are beginning to set and show signs of browning, but the center giggles quite a bit when you tap the side of the pan, 25 minutes. (See next step.) Remove from oven.
- While the oats are baking, place the reserved sugar into the bowl used for the dry ingredients. Add remaining ½ tsp cardamom. Use a whisk to break up the sugar, then give it 100 strokes to mix well. Set aside.
- Sprinkle cadamom sugar evenly over top of oatmeal. Using the back of a spoon, gently spread sugar into a thin layer across entire surface of oatmeal. Return to oven; bake just until sugar darkens (melts) in the center of the pan, 3 minutes. Set oven to broil. Broil 3 inches from heat until sugar bubbles and browns slightly, 1½ minutes. (Watch carefully to prevent burning, which, if it happens, will happen quickly. It may be necessary to turn baking dish each time you check it.) To serve, spoon into small bowls, or cut into squares and serve on small plates. Dollop with yogurt. (Dust individual servings with powdered sugar.)
Notes
- Replace 3/4-cup of the milk with buttermilk.
This baked oatmeal is quite wonderful. It’s got a chai vibe. It’s spicy, and I think that spiciness comes more from the ginger than the pepper. Some gingers are spicier than others. The same seems to be the case when you order chai at a cafe: some are spicy, some are not. Interestingly, that spiciness doesn’t get on well with a cup of black coffee. You’ll want something milkier, like a latte, to go with this.
The topping crisps in the broiler. Leftover, you’ll lose that crunch. Also when leftover, it will seem more dense. So it’s a bit more interesting fresh, but I don’t at all mind having it leftover. In fact, I make this in order to have it leftover. Once it’s made, it’s an easy, microwavable breakfast.
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The oatmeal’s done baking if it no longer jiggles when you gently shake the pan. If you can get this to happen just as the topping is finished, great. Don’t worry much about overbaking it. Do worry about underbaking it, and do worry about burning the topping.
If you have a toaster oven that will accomodate an 8×8 pan, that’s perfect. It won’t heat up the kitchen, and it’s probably more efficient. I find that I have to use a lower temperature in my toaster oven. I’ve never tested my toaster oven with a thermometer, so maybe it runs hot.
Baked Chai Spice Oatmeal
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MMM, I love chai. I’m going to search your site for banana bread recipe, as I have 4 overripe ones sitting here!
I’m not sure I have a traditional banana bread recipe, but I do have a great one for a banana cake.
You’ve done it again. This looks and sounds absolutely delicious.
Thanks!
This sounds really nice!
Thank you, Mimi!
Oh wow! This sounds and looks delicious. I am not a big oatmeal as porridge fan, but I do like the baked stuff. I see making this when the weather is a little cooler.
I think that sounds right. I am an oatmeal fan, but still I feel that baked oatmeal seems like something quite different.
This looks delicious, Jeff. Not only the taste, but also how I expect the textures feel orally.
Yeah, it’s nice. Especially because of the raisins.
Looks good. Though I would replace the raisins with some kind of nut…
That’d be a great idea – or many nut in addition to raisins.
This looks like a dessert for breakfast! My husband would love it.
Thanks, Angie!
I always feel I need to get more oatmeal into my diet, Jeff, and this seems like a great way that definitely isn’t stodgy. Love it!
Yeah, it’s supposed to be good for you, I guess depending on your particular nutrition religion. I eat a lot of it … and I’m not dead yet!
Una receta muy interesante.
Se ve deliciosa ♥
Thanks!
That chai spice combo with the caramelised topping sounds fantastic, definitely a step up from regular baked oats.
Thank you, Raymund!
I’m blown away by this one! I’ll be getting out the egg replacer to try this one. Yum..
I hope you like it, Judee!
I LOVE all things chai! And in a warm oatmeal — perfect! 🙂 ~Valentina
Thank you, Valentina!