This healthy pumpkin oatmeal shake is a perfect breakfast smoothie on the go! It’s also super rich in tons of vitamins, minerals, fiber and antioxidants.
Healthy Pumpkin Oatmeal Shake
More pumpkin obsessed breakfast drinks you may enjoy are my Pumpkin and Greek Yogurt Smoothie and Pumpkin Spiced Latte paired perfectly with a slice of Pumpkin Banana Bread Toast.
I’ve mentioned my daughter’s love of Avena (mine too) which is a popular cold beverage in many Latin countries. Well this week I surprised her with a pumpkin version, yum! I love making oatmeal shakes because I know when she’s running out the door for school in the morning, at least she’s had a high fiber, nutritious breakfast. With all the college tours we’ve been going on this month, we’ve been waking up super early on weekends and jumping in the car, so these have been great.
Healthy Pumpkin Oatmeal Shake
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup quick oats
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup skim milk, or almond milk
- 1 cup ice
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree, canned or homemade
- 3 tbsp brown sugar, or maple
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- pumpkin pie spice, to taste
Instructions
- Cook oats and water in a small pot for about a minute or two, stirring often until it becomes thick and bubbly.
- Remove from heat and let it cool.
- In a blender add milk, pumpkin, sugar, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice.
- Add oats and ice.
- Blend on high until very smooth.
- Chill in refrigerator or pour in a glass over ice.
- Enjoy!!
Delicious! I used regular oats and just cooked a little longer. Don’t have pumpkin pie spice mix so I humped in some (dried ground) ginger, cinnamon, cardamom which is not traditional but yummy, and cloves. I added freshly grated nutmeg. No ice so I used 2 c almond milk. Satisfying but not overfilling. This will be in my regular rotation.