Make breakfast easy with this instant pot blueberry oatmeal! With just a few ingredients, you will have a healthy and delicious breakfast ready with little prep time.
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Oatmeal is easy enough to make on the stove, but I like making it in my Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker because there is little hands-on time. I just stick all of the ingredients in the pot and let it do it’s thing. I love that I don’t have to babysit a pot on the stove or stir constantly.
Cooking Times for Oatmeal in the Instant Pot
This recipes for blueberry oatmeal requires natural pressure release. So, the cook time is only 3 minutes, but coming to pressure and naturally releasing pressure brings it up to about 30 minutes. That’s just something you will want to keep in mind when planning your morning.
You might also like: Blueberry Baked Oatmeal
Types of Oats for Pressure Cooker Oatmeal
This recipe calls for steel cut oats. You may also substitute rolled oats for the steel cut oats. Just stay away from quick cooking oats. You are better off cooking those on the stove as they will turn to mush in your instant pot.
Updated recipe
Please note that we have recently updated this recipe. Originally, this recipe called for 3 cups milk. We are now recommending 3 cups water as it has caused the BURN message on some models of Instant Pot.
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Instant Pot Blueberry Oatmeal
Instant Pot Blueberry Oatmeal is a delicious breakfast recipe made with steel cut oats.
Ingredients
- 1 cup steel cut oats
- 1 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen
- 3 cups water
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- pinch of salt
- cinnamon for serving
Instructions
- Combine the oats, blueberries, water, brown sugar, and salt in the bowl of your instant pot.
- Cook oats on high pressure for 3 minutes.
- Natural pressure release.
- Top with cinnamon and additional blueberries, if desired.
Nutrition Information
Amount Per Serving Calories 202
I hope your family enjoys this instant pot blueberry oatmeal recipe as much as my family did. My kids surprised me by how much they loved it!
Char
Thanks for sharing Aileen! I might have to try this one some time. Thanks for joining the Instant Pot linkup.
Charlene Bullinger Asay
Thanks for sharing. We will be changing our party to Pressure Cooker/Slow Cooker Link Up to reach more followers. I hope that you will link up with us tomorrow. (5/3/17)
Melissa White
Kept getting a burn notice. The oats scorched the bottom of the pot
Aileen
Hi Melissa. I’m sorrry this happened and appreciate your feedback. I’m going to test this recipe again to see if I can find a better solution to avoid that pesky BURN notice.
Amber
Tried this recipe and got the BURN message as soon as pressure was reached. Released pressure and now I have a blueberry milk explosion all over my kitchen. THANKS BUT NO THANKS!!!
Aileen
Amber, I am so sorry this happened to you! You are actually the second person to bring this problem to my attention. We are no longer recommending milk in this recipe and have updated it for your reference.
Shannon
I made this today and it came out PERFECT!! Anyone who is getting a burn error isn’t checking the rubber seal on the inside of the lid. If that seal is the slightest but out of place, that will cause steam to escape resulting in your oats burning. User error, nothing wrong with the recipe.
I’ll definitely be making this again. Thank you!!