Savoury Oats
A delicious, savoury spin on your typical breakfast oats. Comforting, warm oats topped with a jammy egg, garlicky vegetables and a good drizzle of sesame and soy to bring it all together!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1 and 1/2 cups water
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic
- 100 g mushrooms*
- 1 cup green, leafy vegetables**
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- optional garnishes: chopped spring onion and chilli oil
Instructions
- Place oats in a bowl and add the 1 and a half cups of water to pre-soak.
- Bring a pot of water to boil on the stove
- Add egg to the pot of boiling water and cook for 7 minutes for a soft, jammy yolk. Ensure to tip hot water out of pot when done and add cold water to the pot to stop cooking process when done. Set egg aside once cooled and set pot aside to use again.
- While the egg is cooking, prepare the vegetables: mince the garlic cloves and slice the mushrooms and greens.
- Pour the oats and oat soaking water into the pot. Bring to the boil and then turn down heat and gently simmer for 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally until oats are cooked.
- While oats are cooking, heat a seperate pan and add olive oil to the pan.
- Add garlic, mushrooms and greens to the pan and cook for 2-3 minutes, then add 1 tsp of the soy sauce to the vegetable and stir through.
- Assemble the bowl: pour oats into the bowl first, add the stir fried vegetables, the peeled boiled egg and drizzle over sesame oil, remaining soy sauce and top with garnishes.
Notes
*I used a mix of shiitake and enoki mushrooms in this, but any other mushroom works well - eg. button, brown and oyster.
**I used as Asian green called Gai Lan in this, but you can replace with any leafy green like bok choy, choy sum, spinach or kale.