Blueberry Jam Protein Baked Oats

For the Oats:

• Oats - Yep, just plain old fashioned rolled oats. Make sure you don't use steel-cut or quick oats. You need 1/4 cup.
• Almond milk - More specifically, 1/3 cup of unsweetened vanilla flavored almond milk. You can use plain or a different flavor if you want, but just make sure that it is unsweetened!
• Greek Yogurt - 1/3 cup of plain, nonfat Greek yogurt.
• Egg whites - This makes the oats fluffy and gives you extra protein. You need 3 tablespoons.
• Protein Powder - 30 grams of a vanilla protein powder - I used the Prozis Natural Vanilla Whey Protein Powder. If you want to try out their protein, you can use the code "KATIE10" for 10% off!!
• Salt - 1/4 teaspoon, for flavor.
• Baking powder - 1/4 teaspoon.

Blueberry Filling:

• Blueberries - 1/2 cup frozen blueberries
• Swerve - Just 1 teaspoon of granulated Swerve, or a sweetener of your choice, optional.
• Vanilla Extract - 1/2 teaspoon, for flavor.

Topping:

• Brown & Granulated Swerve - This is what gives your oats that sugar coated donut-like topping. Swerve is my go-to as a sugar replacement. For this recipe, I used a mixture of the brown & granular Swerve. If you are not familiar with Swerve, it is a zero-calorie, low-glycemic sweetener that measures cup-for-cup to sugar. It’s completely save and natural, with no artificial ingredients, preservatives or flavors. It is safe for diabetics and Keto approved. You can purchase Swerve off of Amazon here.

1. Blend - Yep, it's that easy. Baked oats became so popular because they are one of the easiest things to make. Blend all of the ingredients for your oats in a small blender. I love my Nutribullet blender for my overnight oats. It is the perfect size, easy to clean, and can literally blend anything! Set aside.
2. Make Your Sauce - Heat a small saucepan over medium heat. Add in all of the ingredients for your blueberry filling (blueberries, lemon juice, vanilla extract, and Swerve). Slightly smash some of the blueberries.
3. Pour - Pour your oat batter into a greased ramekin. Next, Pour your blueberry filling in the middle of your batter.
4. Bake - Bake at 350°F for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. I stick around the 25 minute mark because I do like mine to be a little gooey!
5. Top - Top your baked oats with a mixture of the granular and brown swerve to get that sugar donut topping.

For the Egg Whites

Feel free to substitute this for one large egg, or if you can't have eggs there are lots of egg substitutions out there!

For the Greek Yogurt

You can use 1/2 a banana (mashed) or 1/3 cup of unsweetened applesauce.

For the Almond Milk

Use any milk that you would like! Almond milk is my favorite because I personally have a food sensitivity to lactose and almond milk is very low in calories.

For the Protein Powder

The whole point of these oats are to be low calorie and high protein...BUT if you do not like using protein powder or are not interested in having protein in your oats, you can omit the protein and just use less almond milk. Or, you could use the same amount of milk and more oats!