I used to be a huge lover of macaroni and cheese. Once I became both vegan and gluten free I thought I would never find a substitute for mac 'n cheese that I found as satisfying as the boxed stuff I ate as a kid. I've been on a binge for savory steel cut oats and it occurs to me that the reason may be that it has become my new mac 'n cheese. It certainly tastes as good to my mature taste-buds as that powdery stuff did to my childhood taste-buds so you may see quite a few more versions of the steel cut oats, nut milk, vegetable broth and nutritional yeast combination. And really, what could be better than something you dump in the crock pot, turn on high and come back three or four hours later to enjoy?
Into my crock pot I put:
1 cup organic steel cut oats
1 cup 5X protein unsweetened almond milk
2 cups veg broth (I used organic mushroom broth)
1 cup nutritional yeast
6 organic carrots, sliced into coins
1 garlic scape, chopped
3 small yellow beets, peeled, halved and sliced
cilantro (You may cringe, but the cilantro was kind of dried up, having been stored in a cloth bag in a drawer in the fridge, but I came across it and tossed it in anyway. Tasted fine to me.)
3 organic celeriac stalks/leaves, sliced (I'm sure a stalk of celery would work just fine, however it would be a slightly less strong flavor.)
salt to taste
I set the crock pot on high, went out to an appointment, returned three hours later to a perfectly cooked batch of oatmeal. Yum!
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