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  • 1 cup jumbo oats
  • 4 cups milk
    (or half milk, half water for a less creamy version), plus a dribble more milk to serve
  • ¼ cup dried fruits
    (optional)

To serve

  • your favourite toppings - brown sugar or honey
    sliced bananas, grated apple, blueberries, pinch of cinnamon, natural yogurt, etc

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal264
  • fat7g
    low
  • saturates3g
  • carbs33g
  • sugars11g
  • fibre4g
  • protein15g
  • salt0.4g

Method

  • step 1

    Heat the slow cooker if necessary. Find a sturdy ceramic bowl that will fit in the cooker. Put the oats in the bowl along with a pinch of salt, then pour over the milk, or a mixture of milk and water. Add the dried fruit, if using. Place the bowl in the slow cooker and put on its lowest setting and cook overnight for 7-8 hours. If anyone’s up in the night, give the porridge a quick stir to scrape up the crustier bits from around the edges and bottom, but don’t worry if not.

  • step 2

    In the morning, give the porridge a really good stir – it may have developed a crust on top, but just stir this in to break it up. Add a drop more milk to loosen if necessary, then ladle into bowls and add your favourite toppings.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2014

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A star rating of 3.1 out of 5.36 ratings

s2pmd8rh8809247

The water trick is a game changer. Bemused by the slow cooker haters on here - suggesting microwave or soaking then cooking first thing: I leave for work an hour before my children get up for school - this is perfect for them: I’d question if they’d have breakfast at all if they had to do anything…

petemmoody

As a kid, before microwaves, I used to leave a pot of porridge on the aga overnight. I suppose this works like that. I'll give it a go. Thanks for the idea.

sarahcb1986

This was amazing!

I followed other's advice and put some water at the bottom of the crockpot. I put a kettle's worth in, so the water came quite a way up the bowl.

Let it blip on low for 8hrs.

The milk almost caramelised, giving it a lovely caramel colour... Bit of seasoning, a bit of cinnamon…

SugarFreeFatFree

I tried the recipe, putting water in the base and standing the porridge and milk in a separate dish inside as a couple of the comments suggested. The consistency is different from normal lumpy porridge, it's smooth like semolina pudding. It needs sweetening to taste, with sugar or honey.

philthomson68

seems a lot of faffing about for porridge

Instead take a mug of oats in a bowl add a mug of boiling water and stir to mix the water and oats thoroughly add a little more water if you prefer then microwave until it nearly rises over the top of the bowl add table salt or one of the pretentious types…

bigmick5433829

Great for you as you have a microwave - I don’t so find this great saves time in the morning

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