This Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Baked Oatmeal is one of those breakfasts that feels a little like dessert but is made with wholesome ingredients I feel good about serving my family. It’s soft, perfectly spiced, and studded with melty chocolate chips in every bite.

Honestly, this is one of my favorite breakfasts to make when I don’t feel like cooking in the morning. Everything gets mixed together the night before or while I’m making dinner, then all I have to do is bake it when we need breakfast.

My kids especially love it with a dollop of vanilla yogurt on top. Between the pumpkin, warm spices, and chocolate chips, it tastes almost like pumpkin chocolate chip cookies for breakfast.

Ingredients You’ll Need

This pumpkin baked oatmeal recipe uses simple pantry ingredients plus pumpkin, apple butter and plenty of warm fall spices.

• Apple Butter: Adds concentrated apple flavor, sweetness and even more fall spice.
• Pumpkin Purée: Adds moisture and pumpkin flavor. Be sure to use pure pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling.
• Maple Syrup: Sweetens the oatmeal and pairs perfectly with the pumpkin and spices.
• Olive Oil: Adds moisture and keeps the oatmeal tender.
• Apple Cider Vinegar: Reacts with the baking soda and helps give the baked oatmeal a lighter texture.
• Vanilla Extract: Rounds out all those warm fall flavors.
• Cinnamon: Adds extra warmth and spice.
• Pumpkin Pie Spice: Gives us those classic cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and clove flavors.
• Skim Milk: Adds moisture so the oats soften as they bake.
• Old-Fashioned Rolled Oats: Give the baked oatmeal its hearty, chewy texture.
• Baking Soda: Gives the oatmeal a little lift.
• Sea Salt: Balances the sweetness and brings out the other flavors.
• Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips: Because pumpkin + chocolate forever.

7 Minute High Protein Savory Oatmeal with Cottage Cheese

Kickstart your day with this 7 minute High-Protein Savory Oatmeal with Cottage Cheese! This is the breakfast taking the internet by storm! A warm, satisfying bowl packed with crispy oats, cottage cheese, and leafy greens. Loaded with protein, healthy fats, and fiber, our savory oats recipe is the perfect post-workout refuel or a filling and healthy breakfast that keeps you energized for hours.

I’ve always been about getting good protein for breakfast especially now that I’ve hit my 40s (gasp!). I love a good breakfast smoothie or a bowl of oatmeal with protein powder added to start my day. Having a savory option now with this high protein oatmeal is totally changing my mornings!

If you’ve never tried savory oats before, then you are missing out! Oats are just like any other grain…farro, barley, brown rice…and they are so healthy! Jump on the viral savory oatmeal train with us! You’ll LOVE it!

Ingredients for High Protein Savory Oatmeal

If you haven’t ever tried a savory high protein oat recipe, then let this be your first! Here is everything you will need for this tasty oatmeal recipe:

• Butter: Adds richness and flavor and helps toast the oats.
• Old Fashioned Rolled Oats: Do not use quick oats for this recipe! They will get mushy and almost pasty. Stick with the rolled oats!
• Kosher Salt: Adds flavor.
• Water: Helps cook the oats.
• Baby Kale: If you aren’t a kale fan, go with baby spinach instead.
• Olive Oil: Helps sauté the kale.
• Low Fat Cottage Cheese: Adds creaminess and great protein.
• Cherry Tomatoes: Grape tomatoes also work great.
• Flaked Sea Salt: Adds flavor and a little texture.
• Aleppo Pepper: Adds flavor and tiny bit of heat.
• Lemon Juice: This is totally optional but I love the bright freshness it adds.

The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

How to Make High Protein Savory Oatmeal

The key to making this breakfast grain bowl totally spectacular is to toast the oats before cooking them. It adds a depth of flavor you don’t want to miss! So let’s start there and then rest is just making oatmeal and adding a few healthy toppings! Here are the steps:

1. Toast the Oats: Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat, add the oats and let them toast for a few minutes. Stir often. Add a dash of s

Filled with creamy oats, sweet bananas, and berries, a hint of brown sugar, and spices, this Crockpot Oatmeal is a breakfast that my whole family enjoys. Best of all, this crave-worthy oatmeal can be made in just one hour without any stirring at all!

Strawberry Banana Oatmeal

Closer to a warm muesli cereal than traditionally cooked oatmeal, crockpot oatmeal is an awesome way to make oatmeal. We make a couple of different strawberry or banana oatmeals and love them all.

My kids can never make up their minds about which oatmeal they like best. We eat a lot of oatmeal in this house. Traditional oatmeal, baked oatmeal, crockpot oatmeal, they are all frequently served here.

Oatmeal with Nuts

My husband loves adding nuts to oatmeal and he is perfectly content with a bowl of stovetop oatmeal filled with chewy raisins, crunchy nuts, brown sugar, and butter. This nutty raisin oatmeal shows up on our breakfast table at least a couple of days each month – if not more often than that.

As much as I love that oatmeal, I also love everything about the taste and texture of oatmeal when it is cooked slowly in the crockpot.

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Holiday Oatmeal is filled with fresh apples, dried fruits, nuts, creamy oats, and brown sugar to create a deliciously filling hot breakfast. Less than 15 minutes from start to finish and a piping hot, warm, and creamy breakfast can be on your table.

This breakfast is a great way to start a fun day of cooking and eating during the holidays or any other day of the year. Thanksgiving or Christmas, holiday morning or not, it’s a delicious way to start the day year-round.

This oatmeal requires minimal fuss and it will keep the family full until the main eating event of the day. Over the years, this has become a tradition for our Thanksgiving breakfast.

Oatmeal with Fruit

We’ve been making our oatmeal recipes with fruit for about as long as I can remember and we’ve been making this particular fruit-filled oatmeal for over 10 years now. Holiday Oatmeal is a huge favorite with both the adults and the kids in our home.

Every guest we’ve ever served this to has requested the recipe. With plenty of fresh apples, sliced bananas, dried fruits, and nuts, cooked into creamy oats with a bit of brown sugar, this is a memorable oatmeal for everyone.

You can make this (and most other oatmeal recipes) with milk or with water and the oatmeal turns out great both ways. When I make oatmeal with water, I top each bowl with a pat of butter when I’m serving it.

Whenever we have an abundance of fruit in the kitchen, it’s a sure bet that some of it will make its way into our oatmeal in the morning. Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal is solid proof of that and my boys love that one too.

My own favorite quick breakfast year-round is Blueberries and Cream, but classic Peach Oatmeal and Peach Baked Oatmeal trump that when peaches are in season.

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Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal is one of our favorite breakfasts; my boys would happily eat this every single morning all fall long if I let them.

There is just something awesome about the way oatmeal changes when it is baked. Almost like a cake, but not nearly so sweet, this is a hearty breakfast that we all love.

This pumpkin baked oatmeal has been our Thanksgiving breakfast for the past few years. I’m in favor of anything that makes my holiday kitchen work easier.

There is enough other cooking happening for the holidays, an easy breakfast is ideal. This hearty oatmeal breakfast bake is as easy as it gets.

I stir the ingredients together the night before and pop the pan in the fridge until morning. About an hour before we want to eat breakfast, I give the oatmeal a quick stir in the pan and then pop the cold pan in the pre-heated oven.

The house smells wonderful while the oatmeal bakes and this breakfast puts a smile on everyone’s face as we get ready for a day of Thanksgiving feasting.

Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal

When it comes to oatmeal, my family means business. We eat oatmeal for breakfast many times a week and I’ve come up with plenty of variations on a plain bowl of oats to keep things exciting.

Of course, some oatmeal recipes we never get sick of. This baked pumpkin spice oatmeal is one of them!

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