Dates and Oats Creme Brulee is delicious and the kids will love it too.
Course Breakfast
Cuisine Oats
Prep Time 35 minutesminutes
Cook Time 8 minutesminutes
Total Time 43 minutesminutes
Servings 6Servings
Calories 187kcal
Author Ligia Lugo
Ingredients
4 ½cupsdairy free milk
1 ½cupquick cooking oats
12piecespitted dried dates snipped with scissors into small
¼cupsugar for crisping the top- organic
Instructions
In a saucepan, over medium-high heat add the milk, oats, and dates. Bring to a low boil and then turn down to a simmer and cook 6 minutes, stirring often.
Spoon into little round bowls. About a cup each. I was able to do 6 of these bowls. Let sit until cooled about ½ to 1 hour.
Sprinkle sugar, evenly, over the tops of the oats. I experimented with raw (turbinado) sugar and also coconut sugar. All three were delicious but the granulated sugar is the one that gave the traditional hard topping that you can tap with a spoon.
Now to get the topping to melt and harden.
Turn on the broiler with the rack on the second from the top shelf.
Place the bowls on a baking sheet. Slip the baking sheet, with the bowls, on the top rack.
Broil them for 7 top 8 minutes. The sugar will eventually turn to liquid and bubble all over. When the time is up take the baking sheet out of the oven and let cool.
If you use turbinado or coconut sugar you need to watch them and turn the bowls because the sugar actually browns and you don't want them to burn.
Keep in the refrigerator and eat cold or zap in the microwave for a very short time so you do not wreck the hard topping.
Notes
If you have one of those little kitchen blow torches then you can use that instead of the broiler.