
Creamy and dreamy, this Coconut Blueberry Oatmeal is a luscious breakfast recipe that is worth serving for your weekend breakfast.

This recipe was originally posted in May 2015. I have taken and uploaded new photos and slightly improved the recipe while the blogpost itself remains the same.
I’ve got amazing news to share with your, friends! Oh boy, where are my manners? Hi, folks, and thanks for stopping by. Okay, now you know I’m an extremely well-mannered guy, and I can continue.
In a number of my previous posts, I’ve been using the word “kick” the way too much. It’s been overused. It’s probably gotten vulgar. Thus, I’ve got a substitution for this word which I’m going to use in the next 258 posts. Sure, after that I’ve got to find a new one. That probably doesn’t sound natural for native English speakers, but I’m talking about the word “marathon”. I found it and would use it quite often when I was working on my first, Russian, food blog. A “marathon” basically means…a kick! But while a “kick”, in my book, might have a connotation of an obsessed person, “marathon” is related to sport, and adrenalin; starting and finishing lines. Kitchen kind of sport, you know.
The idea was simple – I set up a particular topic and the time frame and tried to cook as many meals related to that topic as possible. It was a great way to get involved in a process and camouflaged my obsessions with such a lovely marathon idea. I had had a number of delish marathons such as:
- stuffed veggies
- dips
- lemonades
- chilled soups
- crepes cakes
- rhubarb recipes
Sounds scrumptious, doesn’t it?
So, since it seems I’m about to have a kick on oatmeal, I decided why not to announce my first official marathon on this blog? Â Indeed, it will be a marathon without any strict frames, but we are going to use this lovely word anyways, all right?
I’ve already posted the recipe for mango oatmeal, and there are more ideas to be posted yet. Some of them hopefully will be fabulous but some – mediocre. This time I cooked my oats in coconut milk, and the result was great. Did you know that if you cook oats in milk, you’ll get a creamier consistency than using water? Paired with blueberries and decorated with some edible flowers grown by my husband, this oatmeal means all delicateness you can imagine. If you have some violet syrup or extract, I do believe it would be a great addition to this fluffy oatmeal. Or you could incorporate some lavender seeds or extract – I’m not sure it would pair well with coconut milk so it’s your task to try and report to all us:) Or just wait until I try – while writing the previous sentence, I got inspired.
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Coconut Blueberry Oatmeal
Notes
It’s a large serving which will keep you satisfied for a long time. You can decrease the amount of the ingredients (it’s usually recommended 1/3 cup oats to 2/3 cup liquid). Add less/more liquid and cook a few minutes less/more for the desired consistency – I prefer it thicker and a bit undercooked.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup rolled oats (4-5 minutes cooking time)
- 1 cup of coconut milk (fat content of your choice)
- 1 tbsp. sweetened condensed milk (or sugar, to taste)
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup fresh blueberries (divided – reserve some to garnish)
- coconut chips, optional, to garnish
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, bring the coconut milk, condensed milk, and a pinch of salt to a slow boil.
- Add the oats and cook, constantly stirring (the mixture of two kinds of milk can cause its burning on the bottom), for one minute over medium heat.
- Add most of the blueberries. Decrease heat and let the oatmeal simmer for another 3 minutes or so – check info on the package.
- Off heat. Cover and let it stand for a minute or two.
- Serve immediately topped with the reserved blueberries and if desired, coconut.
- Enjoy!

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This is truly beyond gorgeous! I love coconut everything. Even though, I really don’t like oatmeal, I am 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006% sure that I would LOVE this ;) Thanks for sharing! Pinned! :D
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I am a huge fan of oatmeal and this looks so good- Stick to your ribs kind!
Oh I know you are a huge fan! :) Thanks a lot, Arman!
Oh yum, I love that you used coconut milk. This sounds so delicious! And Ben, these photos are GORGEOUS, I mean that staging and those flowers…so pretty! Pinning now :)
Thanks a lot for all your sweet words, Sonali! I’m so pleased :)
I don’t make oatmeal is much as I like/should, but I too like to add coconut milk to it. Love the pretty edible flowers! What about a fried marathon? So naughty but delicious and fun!
Thanks a lot! Fried marathon mmmm I’m not a real fan of any fried food, but probably somehow I will be involved in it as well!
You are missing the “marathon” of donuts on that list of yours, buddy!! Tisk, tisk! I’ve never really craved oatmeal, although I do like it.. especially in cookie form :) However, when paired with coconut milk, blueberries and edilble flowers? Thats a whole new ball game you have going on with this oatmeal. New level of amazing. I must try! Cheers to new foodie marathons and a fantastic weekend!
Haha, you’re right! But I was counting only marathons happened to be on my old blog. But in this case we should add the marathon of marshmallows – I haven’t posted them a lot yet but, believe me, I’ve got some to share:)
Ben, oh my, this oats sound soo great and then your pictures are so wonderful! a must try!
Oh thanks a lot, Gaila! I hope there will be more lovely ideas soon!
An oatmeal marathon, eh? I like the sound of this! I also like the sound of this coconut blueberry oatmeal. I’ve never thought about using coconut milk for the oats…but it seems like such a simple and awesome trick. Next time the oats come out, I’m using coconut milk! And those flowers? How awesome is that? Two (green) thumbs up for seeing something outside other than snow!
Oh, thanks, David a lot! Indeed, any kind of milk could be used…I’m thinking about cashew one. But I don’t have a cow providing cashew milk:) And stay tuned – there are a lot of other ideas to be soon. Have a great weekends, guys!