Learn how to cook basic steel cut oatmeal in your Crock-Pot Express pressure cooker with this easy 2 ingredient recipe. Use this recipe as a base to make your own oatmeal creations by adding fruits, nuts, sweeteners, spices and more!

Pressure Cooker Basic Steel Cut Oatmeal
If you like steel cut oatmeal for breakfast then you are going to LOVE cooking them in your Crock-Pot Express. No more cooking them for HOURS in the stove-top (or even overnight for slow cooker steel cut oatmeal).
Now you can throw in your plain steel cut oats and water into your Crock-Pot Express and pressure cook them in just a matter of minutes.
No fuss, no mess, and this BASIC plain steel cut oatmeal recipe can be used as the basis of so many more flavored oatmeal creations (of which we will be sharing more flavors soon).
As is, this basic oatmeal recipe is pretty darn healthy. Clocking in at 223 calories, 4 grams of fat, zero cholesterol, zero sugar and a healthy 6 grams of fiber per serving.
And it is Weight Watchers friendly too if you are following the WW plan (4 Points Blue and Green plans OR ZERO points Purple plan)!
Of course the nutritional information will change depending on what sweeteners you use, add ins (fruits, nuts, etc).
My favorite personally is to mix in some Splenda Brown Sugar Blend and some ground cinnamon. That makes me perfectly happy in the morning.

Equipment Needed For Crock-Pot Express Basic Steel Cut Oatmeal Recipe:

Special Diets
Gluten Free | High Fiber | Low Calorie | Low Cholesterol | Low Fat | Low Sodium | Low Sugar | Vegan | Vegetarian
This recipe for Crock-Pot Express Basic Steel Cut Oatmeal is Weight Watchers Friendly on the new Personal Points plan. You can see the WW personal points for this recipe here on the Weight Watchers website. Click here for MORE of our Weight Watchers Recipes
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Crock-Pot Express Basic Steel Cut Oatmeal Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Steel Cut Oats
- 3 Cups Water
Instructions
- Add the steel cut oats and water to the insert of your Crock-Pot Express Multi-Cooker.
- Close and lock the lid, making sure the valve is set to sealing.
- Set on MANUAL, HIGH PRESSURE, for 4 minutes. Press START.
- Allow the pressure cooker to come to pressure (takes about 15 to 20 minutes) and allow the oats to cook for the 4 minutes.
- When the time is up, let the pressure cooker naturally release for 10 minutes.
- Carefully turn the valve to venting to release any remaining pressure. Carefully remove the lid and set aside.
- Stir the oatmeal before serving, topping with your preferred sweetener and toppings of choice and enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition

There isn’t a “manual” setting on my crock pot instant pot multi cooker. Please help
Hi Kim, you must have an older model that does not include the “manual” setting. I had one of those too at one point. In that case pick a setting that will allow you to cook at the required pressure setting and time and use that.