A homemade oatmeal spice mix to take your breakfast to the next level.
Easy to prepare and a game changer, this sweet spice blend should be on your bucket list if you want to eat better food!
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Your favorite breakfast is oatmeal, but you'd like to add more flavors to it? Then this oatmeal spice blend is right up your alley!
Enrich your workday or surprise your kids on school mornings with this easy to use sweet spice mix.
It includes only spices and no hidden ingredients, making this a healthy breakfast addition to your diet.
The spices are typical fall and winter spices.
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🍯 Ingredients
For this homemade oatmeal spice mix blend you will need only 3 ingredients:
- Cinnamon
- Green Cardamom
- Allspice (also called Pimienta or Jamaican Pepper)
Try to get cinnamon and not cassia. Both are very similar but differ in flavor profile. Many brands also mislabel the two because cinnamon is more valuable than cassia.
However, you can also use cassia if you can only get that. It's a budget-friendly spice.
Green cardamom is also known as the queen of spices. It's sweet and intense in its ways. Not to be confused with black cardamom, which grows on the same plant, but it's a different spice.
Green cardamom pods can be slightly cracked open and ground as a whole or the better, but wasteful option, is to take out the small round green seeds and to crush that. The powder is then used in the spice blend.
Allspice is a confusing but spice, thanks to its English name. The spice is most commonly used in Caribbean cooking and tastes like a mixture of spices.
Allspice is warm and adds nuances to your oatmeal. The round spice can be easily crushed in a mortar and pestle or coffee grinder.
🥣 How to make it?
Follow the steps to prepare this sweet oats seasoning blend. This is just a quick overview, the full recipe to print with details can be found by scrolling further below.
Step 1
If you use whole spices, blend each separately in a coffee or spice blender to a fine powder.
You can also use already ground spices, but they will be less flavorful (but adding on convenience!).
Step 2
Place the ground spices into a mixing bowl and combine well with a spoon.
Use as required or store in a jar for the future.
🥄 Uses
Use your oatmeal spice mix, as its name suggests, as a seasoning in your homemade oatmeal.
You can add a pinch or more during the oatmeal cooking process or use it as a topping just before serving it up.
Use a pinch for the first time and adjust to your liking. I like to stir about ⅛th of a teaspoon into my brown sugar flavored oatmeal.
This seasoning blend can be used in other oatmeal, porridge and sweets dishes too. Here are some ideas:
🍱 Storing Instructions
Place the finely ground spice blend into a spice glass jar and lock it with a lid. A small funnel can be helpful.
Your spice blend will preserve better and the spices won't lose their oomph.
Small spice glass jars are great because the spice mix is visible, and you will be more likely to use it when you frequently see it.
We can't count up the times that we forgot a spice blend in a tin at the bottom of our kitchen cupboards!
I like to keep my spice jars in a place where I can see them when I'm cooking. Get an expandable spice rack or a spice rack drawer organizer.
You can get a set of glass jars with labels and a spice funnel to help you organize your spices.
💡 Tips
- If you get to use whole spices, dry toast them in a frying pan (without oil). The heat will intensify the aroma of your spices, and you will be able to make the most of them.
- Spice brands tend to grind and sell lower quality spices as powders to hide the fact that their product isn't that great.
- For the most flavorful result, use whole spices wherever possible and grind them freshly in a coffee grinder or spice grinder attachment.
- You can use a stone mortar and pestle too, to grind your spices fine. Especially the green cardamom and the allspice grind really well in a mortar and pestle. Cinnamon stick can be very hard, and therefore I recommend using a device with at least 1000 Watt with durable stainless-steel blades because cinnamon is really hard to grind.
💭 FAQs
Add vanilla bean paste and a pinch of ginger to the spice blend for an advanced, more complex, flavor profile. Add a pinch of salt to add a flavor balance to the mix.
You can add raisins, dried blueberries or cranberries, candied citrus fruit peels such as candied orange peel, your favorite nuts such as walnuts almonds pecans, vanilla extract, fresh fruits such as apples, pumpkin or sunflower seeds, jams, pure maple syrup or palm sugar. I generally prefer to use plain whole grain oats without artificial flavor and instant oatmeal packets come handy too.
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📖 Recipe
Oatmeal Spice Mix Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon Cinnamon Ground
- 1 Teaspoon Green Cardamom Ground
- 1 Teaspoon Allspice Ground
Instructions
- Measure and place all three ground spices into a small mixing bowl.1 Tablespoon Cinnamon Ground, 1 Teaspoon Green Cardamom Ground, 1 Teaspoon Allspice Ground
- With a spoon, combine all the ingredients to a well mixed oatmeal spice blend.
- Place oatmeal spice into a glass jar and store in your spice pantry.
Notes
- This is a small batch recipe which you can easily scale to prepare more. This oatmeal spice recipe makes about 5 teaspoons, which should be enough for a few weeks if you use a pinch every day in the morning.
- To make a larger batch, double or triple all the ingredient quantities.
- For a better result grind whole spices fresh and use that to make this spice blend. Freshly ground spices are more aromatic and usually of a better quality. See post for more info.
Equipment
- 1 Small Mixing Bowl
- 1 Teaspoon
- 1 Spice Jar with Label
