Superb Steamer Steel-cut Oatmeal (v1.0)

This is my recipe for making steel-cut oatmeal on our HS800 Black & Decker™ steamer.

1. Place the following ingredients in the steamer bowl:
• 1 cup steel-cut oats
• 1¾ cup water
• ½ dried fruit, rinsed (raisins, cranberries, ginger, etc)
• 1 tsp spice mix (posted separately)
• ¼ tsp vanilla extract
2. Cook for 60 minutes (at the "Hi" water mark).
3. Let cool, and mix in:
• 1 cup milk
• ½ tsp molasses
• dash salt
4. Refrigerate overnight (optional)
5. Serve w/additional milk for breakfast

Makes 4 servings. Optional mix-ins: ½ cup toasted walnuts; ½ cup peanut butter and ½ cup chocolate chips.

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If you're changing proportions, here are the two variables:

• The water to add to the recipe is the volume of the oats and dried fruit, plus an additional ¼ cup. (in the base recipe: 1 + ½ + ¼ = 1¾)
• The cooking time is the brown rice cook time, rounded up to the next 5 minute mark, plus 5 minutes. (½ cup steel-cut oats cooks for 50 minutes.) This formula might also be written as the (volume of the oats * 20) + 40 minutes.

I love using 3 parts Welch's™ Berry Medley and 1 part crystallized ginger as my dried fruit.