Resting quick-cooking oats or rolled oats in milk, water, or yogurt for the entire night in the refrigerator makes this recipe for overnight oats simple, tasty, and uncomplicated. then served for breakfast as a nutritious option for hectic mornings, topped with nuts or fruits. Having this dish at breakfast is similar to having dessert.
The Recipe for Overnight Oats
The recipe for overnight oats doesn’t require cooking. Combine oats with water, milk, or yogurt, chill the night before, and serve as breakfast.
For people who don’t have time for fancy breakfasts in the morning, this recipe is perfect.
Some time back, I learned about overnight oats and made the decision to test them. I was really amazed! Actually, I preferred it to cooked oat porridge.
This breakfast saved my life when we moved to our new house because it was so simple to make, and I still eat it on hectic days.
In this recipe, which is a very basic form of overnight oats, I soak quick cooking oats in water and then top them with fresh fruits, such as pomegranate, sapota, mango, apple, pear, banana, and fresh sweet berries. Add some nuts and dried fruits if you’d like.
You can add edible seeds, like as sesame, chia, and pumpkin seeds, to make it healthier. In other words, you can modify this dish to suit your dietary requirements and preferences.
This simple recipe for overnight oats has a lot of variants and suggestions. For additional inspiration, check out Pinterest and Google!
You can easily double or triplicate the recipe below, but it only calls for one serving.
How Overnight Oats Are Made
1.Fill a small jar, glass, mug, or bowl with ¾ cup of quick-cooking oats (or rolled oats*). Add as many oats as you desire. Then, if necessary, add water.
*If you’ve used rolled oats, add extra water. For rolled oats, you might add roughly ½ to ⅔ cup of water. Before soaking, you might choose to rinse the oats in a fine mesh sieve.
- Then, add 2 teaspoons of raw sugar, jaggery, maple syrup or any sweetener of your choosing. If you’d like, you can omit the sweetener.
- Include water. To achieve a smooth porridge-like texture with quick-cooking oats, add ¾ cup of water; for rolled oats, add ½ to ⅔ cup of water.
Water can easily be substituted with yogurt, almond milk, or light coconut milk. It will be richer if you add milk or yogurt.
If yogurt is being used, add extra water and thoroughly combine it with the water. Otherwise, there’s a chance the oats won’t soften.
- Give it a good stir.
- You can add a total of ½ cup of water and either ½ spoonful of chia seeds or sweet basil seeds (sabja seeds) (I added a little more water after adding the chia seeds). You can omit this step if you don’t have any chia or sweet basil seeds. The mixture should then be covered and chilled overnight.
- The water would have been absorbed by the oats and chia seeds by the next morning. If you’d like, you can even add more milk or water at this point.
- Next, add any freshly chopped fruits you choose. I began by adding chikoo, or sapota. If you’d like, you can omit the fruits and nuts.
- Next, chopped mangoes were added. You can also include other fruits like blueberries, strawberries, bananas, pears, apples, and pomegranates. Sometimes berries can be too tart, therefore I recommend adding sweeter fruit.
- Lastly, sprinkle chopped nuts and dry fruits on top, such as raisins, dates, cashews, almonds, pistachios, dried berries, or dried apricots. These provide your food a pleasant crunch and some good fats.
- Serve the overnight oats immediately. You may make this recipe for brunch or as an evening snack, and it’s quite adaptable.
Professional Advice
- You can use any additional item you like in this recipe in addition to the oats.
- Oats can be soaked in water, yogurt or curd, milk, almond milk, coconut milk, or soy milk.
- Use jaggery, raw sugar, maple syrup, or honey as a sweetener. Alternatively, you can omit the sweetener completely.
- Chia seeds are my favorite addition to overnight oats, but you may also use flax, pumpkin, sunflower, melon, or sweet basil seeds (sabja seeds).
- Add any desired dry and sweet fruits. But be careful whatever fruits you add if you’re using milk. Melons and citrus fruits, for instance, shouldn’t be added to milk.
- Overnight oats can also be topped with cashew butter, peanut butter, cacao nibs, chocolates, jam, or a handmade fruit preserve.
- Use rolled oats or quick-cooking oats. Both of these oats tasted great when I used them for this recipe. I occasionally soak quick-cooking oats in the middle of the morning and serve them as an evening snack because they can be soaked for as little as four to five hours. You can also use overnight oats into smoothies!