Banana Baked Oatmeal (Vegan!)

These Baked Banana Oatmeal are the perfect healthy breakfast! It’s packed with healthy ingredients and so delicious everyone wants it.

Here’s the ideal breakfast recipe that’s healthy, easy, and full of irresistible flavors. In fact, we’re crazy about it: Banana Baked Oats! Healthy and filling, this incredible recipe is made with wholesome ingredients: mostly oats and bananas. It happens to be vegan baked oatmeal, but it appeals to everyone. Serve it to your guests, or better yet, make a big pot and eat it all week! You can also cut it into “bars” for quick snacks. Topped with some nut butter and banana slices, it’s a healthy and decadent treat.

Banana baked oatmeal ingredients

A few ripe bananas on our counter inspired this recipe. What to do with very ripe bananas? Most of the recipes are banana bread or banana muffins… in short, have fun! We wanted something healthy that would work for a meal. So we decided to make a vegan version of our healthy banana-based baked oatmeal. My god, did it turn out delicious! It’s quickly risen to the top of our favorite easy breakfast recipes. The ingredients for Baked Banana Oatmeal are:

• Oatmeal or old fashioned: Do not substitute steel rolled oats as they have a very different texture! Go for Baked Steel Cut Oatmeal instead.
• ripe bananas: Make sure they are ripe! This is essential for this recipe.
• pitchnut pieces or other nuts like walnuts or almonds
• Cinnamon, allspice and vanilla
• baking powder
• milk (your favorite non-dairy milk)
• maple syrup

Banana replaces egg (and makes it vegan)

Here’s the funny thing: Typically, a baked oatmeal recipe calls for eggs to bind the texture. But if you use mashed bananas, they act as a binder! In fact, bananas are a common vegan egg substitute in baking recipes. You can also use this formula in other baked goods: substitute 1 mashed ripe banana for 1 egg.

The other thing the mashed banana does here: it adds a great banana flavor! So it doesn’t matter what your food preferences are. This Banana Baked Oatmeal is packed with a deliciously sweet banana flavor and offers the perfect texture.

Milk types for baked oats

You can use any type of milk you like for this recipe! If you want to turn it into an all-vegan oatmeal, use your favorite plant-based milk. Here are some options:

• oat milk: Oat milk is becoming a popular and easy-to-find plant-based milk. Be sure to use unsweetened and unflavored.
• Almond milk: Almond milk is another popular choice.
• 2% milk: If you don’t care about being fully vegan, use 2%.
• Avoid coconut milk, as it can add a strong coconut flavor. Soy milk is an option, but we don’t use it often in our kitchen.

Baked Banana Oatmeal Toppings

There are so many ways to top baked oatmeal! This Baked Banana Oatmeal is a super healthy breakfast: it’s vegan, oil-free, and relatively low in sugar. That’s why we like to keep our toppings healthy! Here’s how we overcame it, and some other ideas:

• Nut Butter and Bananas: Mix together almond butter and peanut butter, then top with banana slices. Use nut-free sunflower butter.
• maple syrup: A dash of maple syrup is all you need for a little sparkle.
• Blueberry Dessert: Try the topping with blueberry compote (also vegan).
• PB&J: Why not add a peanut butter and strawberry jam swirl?

Make-ahead instructions for baked oatmeal

With this vegan baked oatmeal recipe, keep in mind: there really isn’t a good ahead-time option. Don’t prep the whole mold ahead of time and refrigerate it overnight! Overnight Oats demand it, but don’t try it here. The problem? The oats will soak up all the liquid and be way too dry. Here are two preparation options:

• Minimum preparation: You can mix the wet and dry separately and store in separate containers (along with the wet in the fridge), then pour them together in the morning and bake. It takes another 45 minutes to cook. We prefer this variant…
• Bake before: Make a casserole on a Sunday night, then pop it in the fridge to eat all week long. You can store leftovers in the fridge for up to 1 week and reheat in a 300 degree oven or microwave. Or eat them fresh out of the fridge like we did!

And that’s it! Let us know what you think of this Baked Banana Porridge – we hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

More banana recipes

This vegan baked oatmeal recipe is one of our best banana recipes (at least in our opinion!). Here are a few others that make the top of our list:

This Banana Baked Oatmeal Recipe is…

Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free and gluten-free.

Vegan recipes for breakfast

These Baked Banana Oatmeal are a perfect plant-based and vegan breakfast idea! Here are some other ideas we like: