Chocolate Oats Pots de Creme Recipe. Apple Variation

Pots de creme are a wonderful and super healthy comfort food

It takes minutes to whip up, and costs pennies. The dessert of my lean years, when I learned all about Quick and Healthy Cooking

Long before the whole-grain fashion began (I am not telling you how long, I heard ladies don’t do that, but I will give you a hint: circa my ultra-lean student years, the very years that inadvertently turned me into a cook, as I was constantly bartering all kinds of favors for a good homemade dinner), I was exploring ways to eat nutritious food for pennies and in minutes, and subsist on a low-low budget.

Oats and all their possibilities were, as they still are, at the top of my list.

You would think I would at all costs stay away from the struggling-student association they inevitably conjure up in my mind. Exactly the opposite is the case, I assure you!

Now I can jazz up my pots de creme:

I add really fabulous and easy-to-find ingredients and end up with an elegant comfort food.

The lean years were fun and creative and made me the nutritious-delicious-inexpensive cook that I am: Forgive me if I say it with great pride as I go down memory lane!

To all our gluten-free diners friends: This is for you too!

Ingredients

• 3 cups milk or non-dairy milk (soy, rice, oat, coconut, almond etc…)
• 1 cup full-fat canned coconut milk
• 1 cup steel cut oats (no substitutions: i.e, no old fashioned, no quick, no instant)
• 1 cup chocolate chips, best quality
• 1/2 cup maple syrup
• 2 tablespoons instant coffee powder
• 3 tablespoons rum or brandy
• Good pinch salt

Instructions