These easy paleo oats have a naturally sweet flavor and a hearty thick texture. The combination of grain-free ingredients make for the perfect comforting breakfast.
Start by gathering your ingredients. Make sure the banana is ripe and the flaxseeds are ground (not whole).
In a small unheated saucepan place the ripe banana and mash with a fork until it is a rough puree.
Add in the eggs and beat them, then add the almond milk and mix. Next add in the almond meal, ground flax and collagen powder and mix thoroughly. The mixture will be very liquid.
Turn on the stove heat to medium to medium-high and stir about every 30 seconds until the mixture starts to thicken more, then stir continuously until it reaches the consistency of thick oatmeal. It will take about 3-5 minutes to thicken.
Remove from the heat and transfer to a bowl. Add in your favorite toppings or spices and enjoy!
Notes
Make sure you use almond meal for a better texture. Almond flour can be used in place of almond meal, but the texture will be different. Almond meal is ground almonds with the skin on while almond flour is ground blanched almonds with the skin taken off.
This recipe can be made vegan by omitting the collagen protein and swapping out the eggs with an extra 2 tbsp of ground flax seeds.
I haven't tried this recipe with a different protein powder besides collagen which is flavorless and doesn't affect the texture much, so I'm not sure how another protein powder would turn out. If you experiment with this, please comment below so we know how it turns out!
Make sure you use ground flax seeds since this helps to thicken the oatmeal. Whole flaxseeds will not work. You can buy ground flax seeds at most health food stores or online. Alternately, you can grind your own flax seeds using a coffee grinder.
You can roughly mash the banana with a fork, it doesn't need to be free of lumps since the lumps help add to the texture of the oats!