15-Minute Vegan Apple Pie Oatmeal
These might just be the most delicious oats you’ll ever make! This vegan apple pie oatmeal is topped with cinnamon and swirled with a five-ingredient tahini caramel sauce that is so delicious your head might explode. Seriously. It’s a hot, satisfying and decadent breakfast that comes together in less than fifteen minutes
Ingredients
Oatmeal
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup rolled oats or any oats you have on hand (learn about the benefits of oats!)
- 3 tablespoons hemp hearts (learn about the benefits of hemp hearts!)
- 1 tablespoon tahini
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
Tahini Caramel Apples
- 2 small apples chopped into 1/2 inch (1 cm) pieces
- 3 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon vegan butter or coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon tahini
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
For serving
- cinnamon
- chopped walnuts or pecans
Instructions
- Bring the water to a boil in a small pot, then add oats and salt and turn down to medium low. Cover, with lid slightly ajar, keep it at a simmmer until oats reach desired consistency, about 8-14 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat butter in a medium nonstick pan over medium heat. Add apples and cover with a lid for three minutes to steam.
- Mix the maple syrup, tahini, vanilla and salt in a small bowl. Don't worry that it's not creamy, it will come together in the pan.
- Add the maple tahini sauce to the apples and stir through. Let bubble for 2 or so minutes until the caramel thickens and darkens a little bit. You want it to look saucy, not dry. Remove from heat.
- When the oatmeal is done, stir in hemp hearts and tahini. Portion into 2 or 3 bowls, top with caramel apples and some cinnamon and chopped nuts.
Notes
If you have a smaller appetite, this recipe may give you three servings...you could easily double it for meal prep! It will keep well for the week - but you want to store the caramel apples separately from the oatmeal for best flavour. Otherwise, the oats kind of suck up the flavour and it loses a bit of it's WOW effect :)