Recipe: Overnight oats
Here's a great breakfast no-bake recipe that you can prepare for yourself the night before!
I've only just recently got into making these, and it's really easy and I can change it up often!
For overnight oats all you need is:
- a container
- milk/dairy alternative
- yoghurt (best is plain)
- some type of jam
- any fruit
Now you don't need to have fruit or jam in it, but I like doing jam as it's a nice sweetness factor!
So, like the name suggest, these are done the night before! I usually try do it at about 9pm, so that by the time I wake up (7am), it's ready!
step 1
To start, I get my clean container (I use a small glass tupperware) and pour a thin layer of oats. You can adjust this to your appetite, I just don't tend to eat too much in the morning. I use just porridge oats, I've seen online that many say to use rolled oats, but there doesn't seem to be that much of a difference.
step 2
Next, I pour in my milk, to just cover the oats. When you add more water, it will make your overall oats more wet and liquidity, but I prefer it to be quite thick.
step 3
Now comes the yoghurt, I have tried to use flavoured yoghurt before, but it clashed with the jam I used so I'd recommend using plain yoghurt - greek style! Again, the amount of yoghurt you use will affect the consistency at the end. Here you will need to mix the yoghurt, oats and milk well to make a nice mixture!
optional!
You can stop there but I like to add some flavour! Here I used apricot jam and ground cinnamon! I usually mix this bit in the morning.
result!
And here's how it comes out in the morning and all mixed together, as you can tell the apricot jam does disappear but I can assure you its taste is still there. A really easy breakfast to prepare the night before!