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Steel Cut Oatmeal Honey Bread – A wonderful hearty, savory bread with a chewy texture. Very easy to make!
My husband Jack and I are both big fans of steel cut oatmeal and we often enjoy it as a hearty breakfast. So when we came across this recipe for Steel Cut Oatmeal Honey Bread in my mother’s old recipe box – we immediately wanted to try it!
This Steel Cut Oatmeal Honey Bread has tiny bits of the steel cut oats inside, giving the bread a rustic texture that is also super flavorful. It looks very dense – but the baked bread is surprisingly light and chewy! And while there is honey added to the bread dough – it’s not a very sweet bread so you can enjoy this both as a savory loaf, as well as with sweet toppings like jam or honey and butter.
This Steel Cut Oatmeal Honey Bread is very easy to make! The oats first soak in boiling water for about two hours to soften – then that is mixed into a fuss-free batter that includes both milk and honey. It bakes up with a wonderful crust that is easy to slice and serve.
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Steel Cut Oatmeal Honey Bread
Steel Cut Oatmeal Honey Bread is a wonderful hearty, savory bread with a chewy texture. Very easy to make!
Ingredients
1 cup steel cut oats
1 cup boiling water
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 stick butter (4 tablespoons)
3 tablespoons honey
1 egg
2/3 cup whole milk
Non-stick cooking spray
Instructions
- Place steel cut oats in a large bowl and cover with the one cup of boiling water. Let sit uncovered at room temperature for 2 hours. Stir once half way through.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl, sift flour, baking powder and salt.
- In a small microwave safe bowl, melt butter and honey then stir into bowl with oats.
- Beat egg into milk and alternately add milk mixture and flour mixture to large bowl with oats stirring with a wooden spoon as you add each. Do not over mix, just mix to combine wet into dry.
- Generously spray a standard size loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray and scrape the dough into the pan. Using a spatula, smooth out the top then place in oven for 70 minutes (one hour and ten minutes), or until a tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean. The dough is dense so we recommend leaving in for the full 70 minutes.
- As soon as the bread comes out of the oven, remove from pan and cool on a wire rack to cool completely.
- Slice and serve with additional drizzled honey.
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Excellent for toast with sweet or savory toppings, and good for croutons or crumbs . A definite keeper, so quick, hands off, no rising time, and easy to make. Yum!
So glad you enjoyed the bread MaryAnn!
Love this bread,great,easy receipe! My oven took 65 minutes,perfect texture,not sweet,toasts beautifully,A keeper!
Thank you Wendy!
Great recipe! Easy and delicious 😋
Thanks Patricia!
I’ve never heard of not letting the bread dough rise, my dough is right now, I’ll let you know how it goes, sounds like a great recipe.
Hi Susan – There is no yeast in our Steel Cut Oatmeal Honey Bread – it’s technically a quick bread and the baking powder will interact with the heat of the oven and liquids. No letting dough rise is necessary. Hope you enjoy it anyway!
Second occasion that I have made this bread. It was a bit mushy the first time. I tried the cut steel uncooked and found it toothsome so only soaked it for half an hour. This gave the bread a more interesting mouth feel. Thanks for this recipe.
Thanks for your feedback Leta.
Hi, can I add raisins to this recipe?
Sure Denise.
This is a delicious recipe! We made some subs because we are vegan and they worked great! I used soy milk, Bob’s Red Mill Egg Replacer, Miyoko’s Oat Milk butter and pure maple syrup. My goodness, this came out just delicious!!! I only have a couple good steel cut oat recipes and this is definitely top of the list! Thank you so much!!
You’re very welcome Linda – thanks for sharing the vegan adaptations with us.
Do you think this bread would be good if using a bread machine? Of course, I would follow their basic instructions.
I’m not sure Terry – we don’t have a bread machine ourselves so I don’t have a lot of experience with it to draw from. If you try it, please let us know how it comes out!
I’m going to make this bread in the morning. I’m going to add walnuts to my bread. I love honey walnut oatmeal!!
Great idea Toni!
Followed recipe, very disappointed with results, way too crunchy, won’t do this again.
Hi Kristi – Did you soak the oats in hot water for two hours (step 1)? That should have fully softened the oats for the recipe.