If there’s one meal I love it’s breakfast (that’s a joke…I love all meals), and savory breakfast/brunch items are the ones I reach for most! I usually make the classic scrambled eggs, omelets, or pancakes for something sweet (here’s my recipe for the fluffiest and most delicious homemade pancakes ever!), but I wanted to branch out and attempt savory oatmeal for the first time. I love overnight oats with bananas, chia seeds, and a handful of crunchy granola on top, but savory oatmeal is a whole other ballgame. Warm, salty oatmeal isn’t the most common of breakfast foods so I reached for my favorite Japanese flavors to add to this new-to-me dish. Miso, shoyu, and mirin are pretty basic base ingredients and eggs and chicken are the perfect textured proteins for more delicious flavor! I hope you all try and love this recipe or add ingredients to make it your own!
Ingredients (for one serving):
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 3/4 Tbsp red miso paste (white miso works just as well, it’s all based on your own preference!)
- 3/4 cup chicken stock
- 1/2 Tbsp shoyu (Aloha shoyu always)
- 1/2 Tbsp mirin
- Garlic powder, onion powder, pepper to taste
- 1/4 chicken breast
- 1 soft boiled or poached egg
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 tsp furikake
- 1/2 stalk green onion
Instructions:
- Soft boil or poach one egg in a pot or with a plug-in egg cooker like this one!
- Heat up chicken stock (or broth) in the microwave or on the stove til steaming
- Measure oats in a medium-sized mixing bowl
- Spoon miso paste into bowl with oats
- Add pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder to taste (I listed a measurement, but I went with my heart!)
- Once chicken stock is fully heated, pour the liquid into oat bowl
- Mix oat mixture thoroughly to ensure miso is finely incorporated (don’t want to leave any miso chunks un-stirred)
- Pour shoyu (I like a lot of shoyu in everything) and mirin in bowl again to taste
- Mix oats again to combine
- While the flavors in the oat mixture are assimilating, cut chicken breast into bite-sized pieces
- Sprinkle chicken pieces on the oatmeal
- Place egg on top of chicken
- Drizzle sesame oil on top of eggs to taste
- Shake furikake all over oatmeal mixture
- Snip green onion stalk on top of oatmeal with a food scissors
- Enjoy!
