3-Ingredient Easy and Healthy Oatmeal Bread Recipe
Make this 3-ingredient oatmeal bread recipe without using sugar, flour, yeast, eggs, or oil. This dense bread brings the nutrition as well as the taste!
This extremely easy oatmeal bread recipe is a quick bread — you can have it baked and ready to eat in under an hour. It doesn’t use any sugar, flour, eggs, yeast, or oil, and doesn’t require rising time, but you still get a tender crumb and a delicious taste that goes well with a variety of spread and toppings.
As long as you use certified gluten-free oatmeal, this is a gluten-free oat bread recipe. It’s perfect for your family and friends with celiac disease or gluten allergies.
What’s in homemade oatmeal bread?
You only need 3 simple ingredients found in just about any grocery store to whip up a batch of healthy bread!
- Oatmeal: Instant oats work well here, but you can pretty well use any type of oats you want since you’re going to grind them into oat flour. Quick-cooking oats and steel-cut oats both work. You can also sub the oatmeal for an equal amount of oat flour.
- Plain Yogurt: For best results, use plain whole milk yogurt. The fat and moisture add to the texture of the bread. You can can use fat-free yogurt or greek yogurt, but they will change the texture of the bread.
- Baking Powder: This acts as the leavening agent in the bread, which means that we don’t need yeast. This is the secret to being able to have a loaf of homemade bread in under an hour!
Making 3-ingredient oatmeal bread
Step 1 | Make Oat Flour
You can skip this step if you are using store-bought oat flour. This is where we make our own oat flour!
Put your oats in a blender or food processor, and blend them until they get to a flour consistency.
Step 2 | Mix
In a large mixing bowl, add the yogurt, oat flour, and baking powder and mix them with a wooden spoon until they’re well combined. This is going to look more like a batter than a dough. It’s sort of weirdly fluffy, and very thick and sticky.
Line a loaf pan with parchment paper, then pour your bread dough (or batter!) into the pan. Smooth it down. You can add a sprinkling of oatmeal to the top of the loaf for the aesthetic. Pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds also look pretty cool sprinkled on the top, just FYI.
Step 3 | Bake
Bake your loaf at 350° for 40-45 minutes, or until you can press on the top and it doesn’t give. It should also look golden brown.
Step 4 | Enjoy!
Let your bread cool for a minute, then cut and enjoy! This tender texture of the oat flour bread is fantastic with just a little butter, but you can also dress it up with honey, jam, peanut butter, cream cheese, or even some cinnamon sugar!
Variations
This easy oat bread can form the base of a number of different, and delicious, variations!
- Maple Walnut Oatmeal Bread: Add 1 tbsp of maple syrup and 1/4 cup chopped walnuts to the batter before baking.
- Everything Bagel Bread: Sprinkle the top with everything bagel seasoning before baking.
- Banana Oatmeal Bread: Add mashed bananas to the batter.
- Cinnamon Swirl Bread: Combine 2 tbsp sugar with 1 tsp cinnamon. Swirl the cinnamon sugar mixture through the bread dough before baking.
FAQs
Store the leftover bread in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days or in the fridge for up to 5 days. You can also freeze slices for longer storage.
Absolutely! This bread toasts pretty well!
Yes, although they don’t come out very round and uniform. You can drop the dough/batter by rounded spoonfuls onto a baking sheet and bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes.
Ingredients
- 3 cups oatmeal
- 1 1/2 cups plain whole-milk yogurt
- 2 tbsp baking powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In a food processor or high-powered blender, blend oatmeal into oat flour.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine oat flour, yogurt, and baking powder. Stir until well combined. Dough will be thick and sticky.
- Line a loaf pan with parchment paper. Pour dough into loaf pan and smooth. Optionally, you can sprinkle oatmeal on top.
- Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes, or until the top is golden brown.
