Easy Banana Baked Oatmeal with Strawberries

Say "hello" to your new favorite, easy, and delicious breakfast recipe that is just perfect for busy mornings! This banana baked oatmeal recipe is made with strawberries, without refined sugar, and takes just 30 minutes to make!

Bananas, bananas, and more bananas! That's how I feel in the summer when my bananas ripen so fast! Thank goodness bananas sweeten as they ripen, so when they are too ripe to eat, they are just perfect to add to all kinds of recipes, even a milkshake if you can believe that!

I don't know about you, but I make baked oatmeal all the time, so it only makes sense that I had to make a version with bananas. Right?

I've gone from making a standard baked oatmeal, to making baked oatmeal with apples (yum!), and now I make this version with bananas. Banana baked oatmeal by itself isn't my favorite, but when strawberries and mini chocolate chips are added, it tastes absolutely divine!

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Why You'll Love This Recipe

• Easy recipe It's easy enough that most older kids can make it themselves.
• Meal prep Can be made the night before and reheated for a quick breakfast the next morning. This recipe is easily doubled, so you can freeze some or have enough for the rest of the week. I have even taken baked oatmeal along on road trips. I keep it cold in a cooler with ice packs and then put it in the fridge in our rental or hotel room. Just confirm that your hotel room will have a microwave for reheating it before you hit the road.
• High in fiber and it contains protein which will help your kids feel full longer and fiber helps to keep things moving through the digestive tract.
• School lunch idea Kids even love having this baked oatmeal for lunch. It can be heated in the morning and placed in a thermos so it stays warm until lunch time.
• Lessens food waste When bananas get too ripe to eat by themselves, they are usually just right to be used in a recipe like this. So, instead of throwing out overripe bananas, use them to make banana baked oatmeal and other recipes that call for ripe or overripe bananas.

Ingredient Notes

• Strawberries Delicious and nutritious! These pretty, heart-shaped berries are high in vitamin C, antioxidants, vitamins, manganese, folate, fiber, and more.
• Bananas High in fiber and potassium. Bananas provide natural sweetness to recipes - especially over-ripe bananas.
• Oats A whole grain. The American Heart Association recommends that at least half of the grains you eat are whole grains. Oats are an excellent source of soluble fiber, insoluble fiber, phosphorus, thiamine, magnesium, and zinc.
• Milk Good source of protein and calcium. Milk adds moisture to soften the oats and helps give this baked oatmeal a smooth texture.
• Egg Good source of protein. Egg helps with the structure of this oatmeal.
• Maple syrup Use pure maple syrup. It adds a touch of sweetness that kids love.

Dietitian Tips

Unlike most traditional breakfast foods, this baked oatmeal is high in fiber. The fiber content (from oats, bananas, and strawberries) combined with the protein from egg and milk will help your kids feel full longer and lessen those frequent requests for snacks!

All three of my kids like baked oatmeal, so I often double up on this recipe so that we have enough for leftovers. My teenagers are old enough to reheat baked oatmeal the microwave before school which saves me time on busy mornings.

How to Make Banana Baked Oatmeal

Here's a quick overview of the steps to make this easy and delicious banana baked oatmeal with strawberries. For the full list of ingredients and specific instructions, scroll down to the recipe.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Mix oats, milk, maple syrup, oil, egg, and baking powder together in a medium mixing bowl. Set aside.
3. Rinse strawberries under running water and remove the stems and peel the bananas. Slice the bananas and strawberries.
4. Spread half of the banana and strawberry slices out in a single layer on the bottom of a prepared baking dish coated with cooking spray or oil.
5. Spread the oat mixture out evenly over the strawberry and banana slices.
6. Top with remaining banana and strawberry slices. Last, sprinkle mini chocolate chips over the top of all of some of the sliced fruit (optional).
7. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 20-25 minutes, or until the edges are golden brown. Let cool for 5 minutes before serving.

Expert Tips

• Use old-fashioned rolled oats. Do not use instant oats or steel cut oats to make this recipe.
• Rinse strawberries well under running water before slicing them.
• Use ripe or overripe bananas because they add natural sweetness.
• Brown sugar or agave can be used instead of maple syrup.
• If you have a convection oven, either reduce the oven temperature to 325 degrees OR reduce the cooking time to 19 minutes.
• While you can use mashed banana instead of banana slices, the flavor won't quite be the same. I've made this both ways and we prefer it made with banana slices.
• If you have the opportunity to pick your own strawberries, do it! And, if you can you bring your kids along to help pick, that's even better!

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