Overnight Oats

You can quickly prepare this easy and tasty overnight oats recipe by soaking rolled or quick-cooking oats in milk, water, or yogurt for the entire night in the refrigerator. Afterwards, as a nutritious breakfast option for hectic mornings, it was topped with fruits or nuts. You could think of this dish as a breakfast dessert.

About Oats for Overnight

A no-cook recipe is overnight oats. Mix oats and water, milk, or yogurt together, refrigerate the night before, and serve as breakfast in the morning. This recipe is great for folks who do not have time for elaborate breakfasts in the morning.

I came across overnight oats a few years ago and decided to give it a try. I was quite pleased! Honestly, I preferred it over cooked oat porridge. When we moved to our new home, this breakfast became my savior because it was so easy to prepare and it’s still my go-to breakfast on busy days.

This is a very simple version of overnight oats where I soak quick-cooking oats in water and then add fresh fruit (mango, apple, pear, banana, pomegranate, sapota, and fresh sweet berries) on top. Additionally, you can choose to add some dried fruits and nuts.

Edible seeds such as sesame, chia, or pumpkin seeds can be added to increase their nutritional value. This means that you can essentially alter this recipe to suit your dietary requirements and preferences. This basic recipe for overnight oats has a lot of potential modifications and additions.

Expert Tips for Perfect Overnight Oats

Aside from the oats, feel free to customize this recipe with your favorite ingredients.

1. Soak the Oats: Use water, curd/yogurt, milk, almond milk, coconut milk, or soy milk to soak the oats.
2. Sweeten to Taste: Add honey, maple syrup, raw sugar, or jaggery as a sweetener. You can also skip the sweetener if you prefer.
3. Boost with Seeds: Chia seeds are a favorite, but you can also add flax seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, melon seeds, or sweet basil seeds (sabja seeds).
4. Incorporate Fruits and Nuts: Add any sweet fruits and dry fruits you like. However, be cautious with milk as a base; avoid adding citrus fruits and melons to prevent curdling.
5. Enhance with Extras: Mix in cashew butter, peanut butter, cacao nibs, chocolate, jam, or homemade fruit preserve for added flavor and texture.
6. Choose the Right Oats: Both quick-cooking oats and rolled oats work well. Quick-cooking oats can be soaked for just 4 to 5 hours, making them a great option for a quick snack if soaked mid-morning.
7. Versatile Usage: Overnight oats can also be added to smoothies for a nutritious boost.

Overnight Oats

Overnight oats is a no-cook recipe method of quick-cooking oats or rolled oats soaked overnight in water, milk or yogurt. Later topped with fruits and dry fruits and then served.

Author: Ahmed Mainul Cooking Method: saucepan Cuisine: American Courses: Breakfast

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Prep Time 4 mins Cook Time 4 mins Total Time 8 mins Difficulty: Beginner Cooking Temp: 20  °C Servings: 2 Best Season: , Fall, Summer, Winter, Spring, Suitable throughout the year Dietary:

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Overnight Oats Ingredients

Servings

• ⅓ cup quick cooking oats or rolled oats

• 2 teaspoons ▢ raw sugar or honey or maple syrup or jaggery powder (optional)

• ▢⅓ cup water – add ½ cup water if using chia seeds & ½ to ⅔ cup water for rolled oats

• ▢½ tablespoon chia seeds or sweet basil seeds – optional

• ▢½ to ¾ cup chopped mix fruits – apple, sapota, mango, banana, berries

• 2 to ▢2 3 tablespoons chopped nuts – almonds, pistachios, cashews or walnuts

Instructions

1. Overnight Oats Instruction

   • • Take quick-cooking oats or rolled oats in a small jar, glass, mug, or bowl.
     • Add raw sugar, jaggery, or any sweetener of your choice, like maple syrup or honey.

   • Add water. If using rolled oats, add ½ to ⅔ cup of water. Instead of water, you can opt to add almond milk, light coconut milk, or yogurt.
   • Stir and mix well.
   • Add chia seeds. If you do not have chia seeds, then just skip them. Cover and refrigerate.
   • The next morning, add fruits, topped with chopped nuts and dry fruits.
   • Serve the overnight oats straight away.

Note

• • You can add your choice of fresh fruits.
  • For the liquids, you can add plant-based milk or dairy milk. You can also use plant-based yogurt. If you use yogurt, then you will need to add some more water.

• Always remember to refrigerate and don’t keep at room temperature. This can ferment your overnight oats.
• Feel free to skip the sweetener, or you can add your choice of sweetener.
• The recipe can be scaled easily.