Slow Cooker Cranberry Orange Steel Cut Oatmeal is easy to make and super delicious too. When I first tried steel cut oats I could barely eat them. They were the most bland food I had ever put in my mouth. I think I tried to sweeten it up with some brown sugar and cinnamon but I just couldn’t stomach it. I learned how to make them in a slow cooker with flavors and spices and now they are a part of my regular breakfast menu. This recipe makes enough for me to eat breakfast throughout the entire week. I just throw everything in the slow cooker and wake up to a delicious hot breakfast.
Check out my recipe for Slow Cooker Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal too!
Print
Prep Time:
Yield:
Print
PinIngredients
- 2 cups steel cut oats
- 7 cups water
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- zest and juice of 1 orange
- 1 T vanilla extract
- 1 T cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- almond slices and extra dried cranberries for topping (optional)
Instructions
- Place all of the ingredients into a slow cooker
- Stir to combine
- Cook on the warm setting overnight or 8 hours
I just made this in the oven and baked 1 hour at 350 degrees. It turned out great. I did cut back on the cinnamon and served with toasted slivered almonds. I don’t like getting up in the wee hours of the morning to start in my crockpot to have ready by 8 or 9 am (later breakfast eaters), so the oven method is preferable to me. Plus, steel cut oats really do need to be stirred everyone once in a while as it cooks/bakes. From past experience with crockpot overnight steel cut oat recipes, they got done much quicker than recipe indicated. Didn’t take long to assemble. Will definitely make again. Thanks for a great recipe.
★★★★
Can this be made in the oven, baked for 1 hour at 350 degrees? I have done that with other slow cooker steel cut oatmeal recipes and that worked fine. Gave me a chance to stir periodically.
I haven’t tried it but now I’m very curious. I think I’ll give it a go and get back to you!
Very disappointed in this. Too much cinnamon and I only used 1 teaspoon. I don’t think I can salvage it.
★
Hi Serra, I’m sorry to hear that the recipe didn’t work out well for you. Is it just that it had too much cinnamon or was is something else besides that?
Making this now, but with fresh cranberries. Can not wait to try it. Cranberry orange anything is my favorite.
Let me know how it turns out!