- 3 cups fat-free milk
- 3 tablespoons firmly packed brown sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 cups Quaker® Oats (Quick or Old Fashioned, uncooked)
- 1 cup mashed ripe bananas
- 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped toasted pecans
- Plain or vanilla non-fat yogurt (optional)
- Banana slices (optional)
- Pecan halves (optional)
- In medium saucepan, bring milk, sugar, salt and spices to gentle boil (watch carefully); stir in oats. Return to boil; reduce heat to medium.
- Cook 1 minute for quick oats, 5 minutes for old fashioned oats, or until most of liquid is absorbed, stirring occasionally.
- Remove oatmeal from heat. Stir in mashed bananas and pecans.
- Spoon oatmeal into six cereal bowls.
- Top with yogurt, sliced bananas and pecan halves, if desired.