Overnight Oats
Soaked oats, maple, berries and toasted almonds.
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The pinch of salt is the whole difference between overnight oats that taste like breakfast and overnight oats that taste like wet cereal. Sweet things need salt to read as flavour rather than just sugar. Do not skip it.
Ingredients
Everything below makes 2 servings.
- 1 cuprolled oatsold-fashioned, not instant - instant turns to paste
- 1 cupwhole milk
- ½ cupplain Greek yogurt
- 2 tspchia seedsoptional, but they thicken it properly
- 2 tbspmaple syrup
- ½ tspvanilla extract
- 1 pinchkosher salt
- 1 cupmixed berriesfresh or frozen - frozen thaw overnight right in the jar
- 3 tbspsliced almondstoasted, for the top
In the app these rescale to however many people you're feeding.
Nutrition
Per serving, as written.
- 390calories
- 14gprotein
- 58gcarbs
- 12gfat
Swaps move these numbers. A different protein or base changes them.
Instructions
Knife work first, then the stove. Nothing below asks you to chop while something burns.
- Toast the sliced almonds in a dry pan over medium heat until they smell nutty and turn one shade darker, 3 min. They keep a week in a jar - do a big batch once and stop toasting them every time.
Stir it all together
In a jar or bowl, stir the rolled oats, chia seeds, whole milk, plain Greek yogurt, maple syrup, vanilla extract and kosher salt until there are no dry pockets. It will look far too wet. That is correct - the oats drink most of it overnight.
3 min · hands onFridge overnight
Lid on, fridge, at least 4 hours and ideally overnight. Nothing else happens tonight.
240 min · hands offTop and eat
In the morning, stir once - it will have set firm - and loosen with a splash more milk if you like it looser. Pile the mixed berries and sliced almonds over the top. Eat cold, straight from the jar.
2 min · hands onMake it yours
Every swap here is one Maui already knows how to make, including what it does to the timing.
Whisk it into the milk BEFORE adding oats - stirred in after, it clumps.
Slice over the top in the morning, not the night before - it browns. Adds about 1 minutes.
Swirl it through the top; it melts into the cold oats as you eat. Adds about 1 minutes.
Use 1/4 cup more oat milk to make up for the yogurt's body.
What keeps
The one breakfast that is BETTER made ahead. Jar up 4-5 at once on Sunday; they hold 5 days in the fridge and improve for the first three.
Add fruit the morning you eat it - berries go slack after a day in the oats.
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