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Modified: May 16, 2025 Published: Feb 21, 2019· Cathy Brak · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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Instant Pot Porridge

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Instant Pot Porridge is an easy overnight apple cinnamon oatmeal prepared at night and warm, creamy, and ready for you first thing in the morning.

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It's the modern recipe for good old fashioned rolled oats using the Delay Start button on your Instant Pot.

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  • Instant Pot Porridge Settings
  • Instant Pot Burn Message
  • Instant Pot Rolled Oats
  • More Recipes for Your Oats
  • Instant Pot Porridge Variations
  • If you'd like to try this with quinoa, you might like this one...
  • Recipe

To be honest with you, I haven't always been a fan of oatmeal porridge. I probably wouldn't even have created this recipe if it weren't for my husband looking for something different for his breakfast. He likes his porridge jazzed up with apples, raisins, and cinnamon. However, there isn't any time for making much in the morning as he's up and out the door in half an hour. This make-ahead Instant Pot Porridge has been the perfect solution! As it turns out, I've been enjoying this one, too!

The weather has been very cold here this winter, and we crave warm comfort food such as this oatmeal porridge. It's great with homemade Oat Milk.

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Instant Pot Overnight Oatmeal is made with gluten-free oatmeal, nondairy milk, cinnamon, raisins, apple, and maple syrup.

Instant Pot Porridge Settings

You'll use two settings on your Instant Pot to make your oatmeal porridge overnight, Pressure Cook and Delay Start. Set the Pressure Cook for 5 minutes with the valve closed.

If you want to make your porridge in the morning to eat right away, simply skip the Delay Start step.

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Gluten-Free Instant Pot Oatmeal Porridge

Instant Pot Delay Start

I had not yet used the Delay Start button on my Instant Pot, but it worked wonderfully for this recipe! Set it for one hour less than when you want to eat your porridge. This allows one hour for your pot to come up to pressure, cook, naturally release the pressure, and be warm and ready for you to open to eat in the morning.

Because your ingredients sit for several hours, I don't recommend using dairy milk in this recipe. It works best with nondairy milk such as almond, cashew, or coconut. The kind in the carton is fine.

Instant Pot Burn Message

To avoid getting a Burn message on your Instant Pot, don't stir the ingredients the night before cooking. Simply add them in the order given in the recipe, put on the lid, and set the buttons. It's that simple!

Your oatmeal porridge will be ready to stir up in the morning. Blend the creamy goodness together and enjoy! I like mine warm without adding any milk or further sweetener to it.

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Instant Pot Rolled Oats

Use coarse rolled oats, also known as old-fashioned oats, for this recipe. Don't use quick oats or instant oats. Steel-cut oats would probably work, but I haven't tested that. As always, if you need to avoid gluten, you must use certified gluten-free oats. Otherwise, you can count on the oats containing gluten. Read more about that in Start Here.

More Recipes for Your Oats

  • Baked Overnight Oats
  • Sweet and Salty Granola
  • Gluten-Free Granola
  • Carrot Cake Baked Overnight Oatmeal
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Instant Pot Porridge Variations

Maybe you're not fond of raisins, cinnamon, and/or apples in your oatmeal. Feel free to experiment by replacing them with other fruits, nuts, or spices. As long as you keep the overall quantities the same, it should work out fine. Don't alter the proportions of liquids to oatmeal. They have been worked out to cook optimally in your Instant Pot.

If you'd like to try this with quinoa, you might like this one...

  • Apple Cinnamon Quinoa Porridge

I'd love to hear how this turns out for you. If you made a variation, how did you like it? Please let me know in the comments below. 🙂

Recipe

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Instant Pot Oatmeal Porridge

Instant Pot Porridge is an easy apple cinnamon oatmeal prepared at night and warm, creamy, and ready for you first thing in the morning.
4.80 from 5 votes
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Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American, Canadian
Diet: Gluten Free
Keyword: gluten free, instant pot, oatmeal, porridge
Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes minutes
Additional Time: 30 minutes minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes minutes
Servings: 6 small bowls
Calories: 187kcal
Author: Cathy

Equipment

  • Instant Pot
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Ingredients

  • 2 cups gluten free coarse oatmeal not quick
  • 2 ½ cup water
  • 2 cups nondairy milk of choice from carton
  • ½ cup raisins
  • 1 apple peeled, cored, and chopped
  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon
  • 2 tablespoons maple syrup

Instructions

  • Add ingredients to Instant Pot. Fasten on the lid.
  • With Vent closed, set to Pressure Cook for 5 minutes. Immediately, set Delay Start for 7 hours (for oatmeal to be done in 8), or for one hour less than whatever time you want your porridge to be finished. 

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Notes

The porridge will stay warm for up to an hour in a closed Instant Pot.

Nutrition

Calories: 187kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 119mg | Potassium: 251mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 20IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 143mg | Iron: 2mg

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Comments

  1. Ellen says

    January 13, 2021 at 9:24 pm

    5 stars
    I put the ingredients in my Instant Pot last night and had a wonderful breakfast this morning! I used the pot in pot method to avoid the burn message and to make clean up easier. To make it pot in pot, I put a cup of water in the insert, then a trivet, then put all of the ingredients in a bowl on top of the trivet. I used soy milk as my milk of choice. The oatmeal was perfect and creamy! I'm eating the leftovers cold tonight and it's still delicious. Next time I'll add nuts.

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    • Cathy says

      January 15, 2021 at 1:22 pm

      Wonderful! Thank you for letting me know how much you enjoyed your porridge. The pot that fits inside the Instant Pot must be very handy to have, and nuts sound like a great addition!

      Reply
  2. Lily says

    February 05, 2020 at 1:25 pm

    Hi. I was really looking forward to to this and I did what you said but it still burned! Any other tips on getting it to not burn? Thanks!

    Reply
    • Cathy says

      February 09, 2020 at 9:21 pm

      I'm sorry that this didn't work well for you, Lily. Did your porridge actually look, smell, and taste burnt, or did the burn message just come up on your Instant Pot? The Instant Pot will turn off when the burn message is activated, but I've found that by then my porridge has cooked enough for it to finish on its own and turn out fine.

      As an extra precaution, you could try adding both the liquids before you add the oatmeal and other ingredients. I hope this works better for you.

      Reply
  3. Carol Little R.H. @studiobotanica says

    December 08, 2019 at 9:21 pm

    5 stars
    I want to make this.I've never used the delayed start feature..
    Now I need to go and see if my IP has one..
    Looks So delicious!

    Reply
    • Cathy says

      December 09, 2019 at 9:03 am

      I hope your Instant Pot has the delay feature. It's very handy!

      Reply
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