This Carrot Cake Oatmeal is hearty, filled with warming spices, and perfectly-sweetened. Made with only 8 wholesome ingredients! This cozy bowl of oats tastes like a slice of carrot cake. Made with rolled oats, almond milk, shredded carrots, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and sweetened with maple syrup. Who says you can’t have dessert for breakfast?
With winter right around the corner, I’ve been craving warm breakfasts that usually include a steaming bowl of oatmeal or a stack of warm pancakes.
When the temperature and length of days start changing as a new season begins, we respond to these changes in nature by desiring different foods. In the hot months, most people choose cooler, lighter foods. As the weather cools in fall, we suddenly start feeling more energetic and desire warming foods and tastes.
According to Vaidya Manohar, an ayurvedic expert, if we are in tune with nature’s intelligence, in tune with our own body’s needs, then we will naturally crave the foods and daily routine that will keep us in balance when the seasons change. “This is the state of homeostasis, or balance, in Ayurveda,” he says. “This is what it means to be established in the Self.”
Ayurveda is an ancient individualized system of medicine. The tradition is rooted in the idea that each of us is born with a completely personal blueprint for optimum health. From birth onward, your constitution defines who you are. No two constitutions are exactly alike; therefore, no two human beings can have precisely the same expression of ideal health.
In Ayurveda, everything is medicine and everything is poison; what might be beneficial to you could harm someone else and visa versa. It all depends on your constitution, and what patterns are currently at play in your particular system. Ayurveda is fundamentally opposed to one-size-fits-all remedies. While there are certainly some practices that are considered to be beneficial for most everyone, Ayurveda places the focus firmly on you, the individual concerned.
Winter is actually the season when the digestive fire is strongest.
The body requires more fuel to stay warm and healthy during the winter months. The cold weather forces the fire principle deep into the core of the body—igniting the digestive energy. Our bodies, therefore, crave a more substantial, nutritive diet at this time of year, and you will likely find yourself eating larger quantities of food. A supportive winter diet will be aimed at pacifying kapha without increasing vata or visa versa.
This cozy bowl of Carrot Cake Oatmeal is the perfect winter breakfast staple. As always I like to sneak in vegetables whenever I can and in this case, that’s carrots. If you like carrot cake, you’re going to love this carrot cake oatmeal!
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Carrot Cake Oatmeal
Ingredients
- 1 cup Shredded Carrots
- ½ cup Rolled Oats
- 1 ½ cups Almond Milk
- 1 Tbs Maple Syrup
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- ¼ tsp Ground Ginger
- Dash of Nutmeg
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Toppings
- Chopped Walnuts
- Pumpkin Seeds
- Extra Cinnamon
- Shredded Coconut Flakes
Instructions
- Add almond milk and spices to a pot.
- Bring to a low boil then add oats, shredded carrots, and vanilla extract.
- Turn heat down to low and cook for 20 min or until oats are thick and creamy.
- Top with walnuts, pepitas, shredded coconut, and extra cinnamon!
YUM! I tried this because I love carrot cake and it was soooo good 🙂