Keto Oatmeal
By Carine Claudepierre
Published on 09/29/2017 - Last updated on 12/31/2023
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This Keto Oatmeal recipe is made with coconut flour and is a delicious, creamy coconut porridge to start the day.
Plus, this Keto Oatmeal is also paleo, vegan, and gluten-free!
What’s Keto Oatmeal?
A Keto Oatmeal is a low-carb, low-sugar version of the classic oatmeal. But since oatmeal is made with high-carb oats, classic oatmeal has to be made with other ingredients.
This healthy low-carb oatmeal recipe is made with coconut flour, almond butter, and almond milk. It’s a great alternative to your regular oatmeal.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
Keto Oatmeal is a single-serve keto recipe ready in 5 minutes and 100% sugar-free. You’ll love its creamy, silky-sweet texture.
If you watch the carbs, note that this single-serve oatmeal recipe contains only 6 grams of net carbs. It’s also loaded with 8.2 grams of plant-based protein to feed those muscles!
It can be eaten for breakfast or as a light post-workout snack. Dairy-free, vegan, gluten-free, kids approved!
Ingredients and Substitutions
Additionally to its amazing taste, this paleo porridge is also very easy to make. Indeed, all you need to make this creamy hot keto oatmeal are 5 simple ingredients:
- Coconut Flour – Coconut flour is a low-carb, high-fiber flour that is used as a keto flour in many baking recipes.
- Shredded coconut – Choose unsweetened shredded coconut to avoid unnecessary added carbs.
- Unsweetened Almond Milk or unsweetened coconut milk – it should be noted that as for any regular porridge recipe, the amount of milk you add will change the texture. For a sticky, dense porridge, add less milk, or cook the porridge longer to evaporate the liquid. For a silky smooth texture, add a splash of extra milk.
- Almond Butter – or any nut butter you love. Obviously, seed butter works as well if you have a nut allergy.
- Sugar-Free Crystal Sweetener – I prefer using erythritol but you can also use allulose or even liquid sweeteners such as sugar-free maple syrup.
How To Make Keto Oatmeal
Do you miss hot creamy oatmeal in the morning? Obviously, we miss some food on a low-carb keto diet, but the good news is there’s always an alternative.
So that keto oatmeal recipe or coconut flour porridge, call this as you want, will fix any porridge cravings. Plus, it ticks all the diets, keto, vegan, paleo, and gluten-free!
Bonus, there are only 5 ingredients needed to make this.
Cooking The Keto Oatmeal
There’s no difference between regular porridge and keto oatmeal when it comes to cooking them.
First, add all the ingredients to a saucepan and simmer for 2-3 minutes.
Next, keep cooking until it becomes thick and creamy, adjusting with more milk for a more liquid silky texture. The more milk you add, the runnier it will be.
Otherwise, the longer you cook your paleo porridge, the stickier and creamier it will be.
Keto Oatmeal Toppings
It’s a deliciously comforting coconut porridge with a beautiful creamy texture, nutty flavor of the almond butter, and bites of shredded coconut.
The best keto low carb toppings to enhance the flavor of this low carb oatmeal recipe:
- Fresh berries
- Sliced almonds, pumpkin seeds, or crushed peanuts.
- A drizzle of almond butter or sunflower seed butter.
- Sugar-free liquid syrup – maple, caramel, or chocolate flavor.
The texture and taste are absolutely amazing! And you don’t have to be a chef to make this. It only takes 5 minutes, and you’ll love this healthy oatmeal recipe, I am sure.
Storage Instructions
I don’t recommend storing this keto oatmeal. It doesn’t reheat well.
If you absolutely need to make it ahead, don’t add any topping and reheat it with a splash of plant-based milk.
More Keto Breakfast Recipes
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Keto Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons Coconut Flour
- 4 tablespoons Unsweetened Desiccated Coconut
- 1 tablespoon Granulated Sweetener
- ¾ cup Unsweetened Almond Milk
- 1 tablespoon Almond Butter
Instructions
- Place all the ingredients into a medium saucepan.
- Heat until it starts to simmer, bring to a light boil, then lower the heat and simmer for 2-3 minutes, occasionally stirring, until it has thickened.
- Take it off the heat when it reaches the consistency you like. If you like a creamy thick porridge, 2 minutes is ideal. If you like a drier texture, keep cooking as you will do for regular oatmeal.
- Serve hot with your favorite toppings and add extra unsweetened almond milk if desired.
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About The Author
Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook, and founder of Sweet As Honey.
I have an Accredited Certificate in Nutrition and Wellness obtained in 2014 from Well College Global (formerly Cadence Health). I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.
I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet
Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!
All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.
Browse all my recipes with my Recipe Index.
I hope that you too find the recipes you love on Sweet As Honey!
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Hi, Carina. I get a question about the sugar, why you don’t discount the sugar of your recipe in the carbs if this is erithritol
Erythritol, like any sugar alcohol are not not assimilated by the body it means it doesn’t impact your blood sugar level or ketosis. Therefore, most keto recipes won’t include erythritol in their carbs counts. On a keto diet, you count net carbs, not total carbs, because net carbs are the one that impact your body. Net carbs is always total carbs minus carbs from sugar alcohols minus fibre.
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This is an Oatmeal recipe without oatmeal?
I find it to be more like a cream of wheat in texture.
It’s a keto oatmeal so yes no oats, it has the texture of oatmeal without the carbs
Every recipe of Carine’s is just amazing!!! Thank you so much!!!
Hello ! I am wondering sbout sodium why so much . Have you added salt?
It’s very low in sodium, remember that per day you should aim for less than 2,300 mg of sodium, this porridge only contains 10% coming from the basic natural ingredients in the recipe.
The best low carb oatmeal love it
Thanks 😊
This is soo yummy! I’ve been looking for a good keto vegan breakfast and I think this is about to become a staple for me! I added raspberries and it is perfect!
Thanks for the recipe. I used peanut butter as I had run out of almond.The porridge had a very distinct sweet flavor without any sweetener. Perhaps it was the peanut butter but there was also a lot of coconut. The texture was more like cream of wheat than oatmeal at least how I used to make oatmeal at least the non instant kind and with minimal cooking. I just wanted to ask about using almond flour (I know likely 4 times as much as the coconut flour) to tamp down the flavor a bit.
Hi, It will probably work with almond flour too but you may need lot more. Thanks for trying my recipes, XOXO Carine
I really liked the flavor of this.. but it seemed grainy.. I also kept having to add more milk because it was getting too thick.. hmmm.. should I have booked longer??
Coconut flour has lots of fibre, 40% of the flour is fibre meaning it is ultra moisture absorbent. The longer you cook, the dryer/grainier it becomes. If you like a creamy texture stop cooking your mixture when you enjoy the texture you see. Like for oatmeal you can play with cooking time, adding more milk to make a creamier or dryer texture. Enjoy ! XOXO Carine.
Can this be made in the microwave?
I did not bake mine in the microwave but I am sure it will work very well, 1 minute on high should be enough. Let me know how it goes if you try this option. XOXO Carine.
I just made this for late breakfast. I LOOOOOOVED IT. I could eat this EVERYDAY for the rest of my life. I added a bit of cinnamon and some lemon peeL, and it really hit the spot. Porridge craving 100% satisfied. THANK YOU!!!!
That is what I love to read. Thanks SO much for trying my recipes and for such a lovely comment. XOXO Carine.
This is great in theory but when I made it the coconut stuck in my throat. I found it tasty but unpalatable because it choked me.
You may not like coconut flour very much. Coconut flour has lots of fibre and if you are not used to it, this can be very dry indeed. You can simply add more almond milk to make the porridge creamier, as you will do with regular oat. i hope you will get some others nice recipe on the blog. XOXO Carine.
Mine didn’t thicken up:-(. I wonder what I did wrong…
Hello! It looks like you added too much liquid or did not cook the ‘oatmeal’ long enough to let the coconut flour fiber to soak up the liquid. Like for real oatmeal, you need time to evaporate the liquid and activate the fiber. When this happens you can also add a bit more coconut flour into the mix to thicken up – specially if you like yours thick. Start with an extra teaspoon of coconut flour, keep cooking on the stove, stirring as you go to let the fiber do the work. It will get creamy and thicken up for sure! Enjoy the low carb recipes on the blog. XOXO Carine.
I found an easier way to have creamy porridge using only oats (flour not required)
Add 1/2 cup of oats to a small jar, together with 1 cup of boiling water or your choice of water and milk. Using a hand blender mix everything until the oats start to get a creamy consistency. For a more dense consistency, the oats can be further cooked in the microwave for a minute or so, taking care not to let them overflow if the mixture boils. The boiling is what actually releases the starches to make the whole thing super creamy and since the oats are blended they absorb moisture much quicker than traditional rolled oats. Flavors also blend better!
Finally, add some nuts and flavorings to taste. I like to add a pitch of salt and some almonds!
Its also possible to use general purpose wheat flour to make a porridge. In this case mix the ingredients at ROOM temperature and boil the mixture (microwave or stove) mixing a couple of times, so no solids get on the bottom (its hard to mix once the liquid is hot). Add flavorings to taste and serve
This reminds me of baby food. Delicious creamy treats.
That is wonderful ideas! But those are not low carb, that is why I was suggesting coconut flour in this recipe. Thanks SO much for inspiring other with great ideas. Enjoy the blog recipes. XOXO Carine.
Absolutely delicious and filling and an awesome replacement for oatmeal
Thanks for this lovely comment! I am so happy you enjoy it 🙂 XOXO Carine.
This oatmeal looks so creamy and good! Adding it to my breakfast menu for next week!
That looks creamy and delicious! And your photos are just stunning, too! Hats off to you for going the (nearly) vegan route!
That’s an interesting version of porridge. I love how you used coconut flour and shredded coconut.
Yum! This oatmeal is packed with flavors and I love that you used coconut flour!
So good! I bet it tasted amazing. I love everything coconut.