Baked Oatmeal with Sweet Potato (DF, GF)

This is DELICIOUS. My dad LOVES it (he actually eats it cold !!)  This can be eaten as oatmeal for breakfast or as a sweet potato casserole for lunch or dinner.

Adapted from this recipe.

Ingredients:

2 cups  Quaker old fashioned oats
1 cup chopped walnuts

2 tsp ground cinnamon

3/4 tsp ground nutmeg

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup Unsweetened Shredded Coconut  (I use Bob's Red Mill)
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1 cup date syrup 

1 medium to large very ripe banana, mashed 

1 cup unsweetened almond milk  

1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup unsweetened orange juice
1 and 3/4 cups cooked and mashed sweet potato

1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce 

Directions:
Mix the wet ingredients in one bowl. 

Mix the dry ingredients in another bowl.    

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir just until the dry ingredients are moistened.  

Pour into casserole dish bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes or until top is golden brown.

O Lord, keep me out of the hands of the wicked.  Protect me from those who are violent, for they are plotting against me.

Psalm 140:4  (NLT)