If you’re like me, you likely don’t have time to cook breakfast most mornings, so this delicious Pear and Date Spiced Oatmeal will be a lifesaver. The steel-cut oats give this oatmeal a nice bite and help keep the leftovers tasting chewy instead of soggy (which is usually the case with leftover oatmeal made from rolled oats or quick oats). This recipe makes a huge batch of oatmeal so you can enjoy it throughout the week (mine still tasted great after six days!). Instant Pot to the rescue, yet again!
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To see exactly how I make this Pear and Date Spiced Oatmeal, check out the video below (it’s the final recipe and starts at 08:53).
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Instant Pot Pear and Date Spiced Oatmeal
Ingredients
- Coconut oil or cooking spray
- 1 ½ cups steel-cut oats
- 4 cups oat milk or other nondairy milk
- 6 Medjool dates, pitted
- 2 large pears, peeled and diced
- 1 ½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- Pinch of sea salt
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
Instructions
- Lightly coat the inner pot of the Instant Pot with coconut oil or cooking spray to avoid sticking.
- Add all of the ingredients to the inner pot of the Instant Pot.
- Secure the lid and set the valve to Sealing (not Venting). Select the Pressure Cook setting (or Manual setting on older models) at high pressure and set the cook time to 12 minutes.
- Once the 12-minute timer has completed and beeps, allow a natural pressure release for 20 minutes; then switch the Pressure Release knob from Sealing to Venting to release any remaining steam.
- Open the pot and stir the oatmeal thoroughly. There may be some liquid and foam on top, but once you stir it, the liquid will incorporate into the oatmeal and thicken up.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Made this today for my family who aren’t the biggest fan of oats. Everyone was obsessed and went back for seconds, I am so impressed by this recipe. Thank you thank you thank you
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This was a very hearty recipe. I didn’t have any cardamom so I left that out. Next time, I will probably add another chopped pear, half the nutmeg and add cardamom. This was the first time making oats in my Instant Pot. It was nice to be able to prep and get some work done while it was cooking and now I will have breakfast for the week.
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I’ve made this several times, and really appreciate how easy it is!! Just enjoying a fresh batch made on a snowy day — I get cravings for it in winter.
Hi Caitlin, Thank you so much for such a fantastic review! Appreciate you taking the time!
Love everything about this recipe – so easy to make ahead, filling, delicious. Super versatile as well. I’ve used pears and apples and both taste yummy.
Hi Pat, so lovely to hear you’re such a fan of the oatmeal! Thanks for the awesome review!
Can this be cooked overnight in a slow cooker?
Hi Mrs. B, we haven’t used a slow cooker ourselves but we don’t know why the recipe wouldn’t work in one!
Tried this yesterday, but with apples since my bf doesn’t like pears, and it turned out so amazingly GOOD! Best oatmeal I have ever had. Thank you!
(Half oat milk, half almond btw, and I didn’t have medjool so substituted some other decent dates.)
Thanks for sharing, Zarah! You’re welcome!
I was looking for vegan oatmeal recipes and found this one! I made half batch with some modifications by using apples, water, and plant-based milk half-half, which turned out great! My family loved it! Looking forward to trying more of your recipes:)
Delish! Wonderful to hear it was a hit with the whole fam and we hope you all enjoy the other recipes 🙂
So I sprayed cooking spray, added everything, and got the burn notice. I then emptied everything out, let it cool off, scrubbed the heck outta the pot, used a TON of coconut oil to coat the entire inside, put it all back in, and got the burn notice again. What gives?
I was so excited to make this recipe, but unfortunately I kept getting a burn notice on the IP. I opened it after the first time and added water, but the same thing happened again. I then had to move to the stovetop and keep stirring and adding water/milk to get the oats to cook and keep it from drying up. Ended up taking much longer than anticipated. Overall, the flavors were really good and we will probably try making it again sometime by adapting another stovetop steel cut oats recipe to use these flavors. Appreciate the healthy recipe and inspiration!
Hi! I just downloaded the 7-day meal plan but couldn’t wait to try this recipe! I kept getting a burn message on my IP even before it fully sealed. Any advice on this? I added the full amount of liquid and sprayed down the inside of my pot, so I can’t figure out where I went wrong. Please help!
Hi Haley, I’m sorry to hear that. The burn error is certainly annoying. What I’m coming to learn is that there are subtle yet significant differences in Instant Pot models (the newer ones seem to be more sensitive) and the thickness of certain ingredients, dependent on brand, such as plant-based milk. Also, oats have a tendency to stick so something that can help is using a thinner plant-based milk and/or adding a bit of extra water to thin out the milk. I hope those suggestions help!