Easy Overnight Oats (Base + Flavor Options!)

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5 from 2 votes

Easy Overnight Oats (Base + Flavor Options!)

Simple and sweet, this no-cook oatmeal can be made the night before for a quick grab-and-go breakfast that can be enjoyed in its most basic form or you can spice things up with a flavor combination!

Prep Time5

Total Time8 5

Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 282kcal

Author: Kitrusy

Ingredients

Base Recipe:

½ cup old-fashioned rolled oats or steel cut oats
½ cup Whole Milk or coconut, almond or oat
1 tbsp maple syrup or honey or finely blended raw cane sugar (to taste)
pinch Himalayan salt

Optional Base Add-ins:

pinch Spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, ginger, pumpkin spice, cardamom etc.
¼ tsp Extracts such as vanilla, lemon, orange, hazelnut, almond.
1-2 tbsp unflavored whey protein powder or any clean eating protein rich powder
½ cup Whole Milk Plain Greek Yogurt
1 tbsp chia seeds

Double Chocolate:

2 tsp cocoa powder
1-2 tbsp dark chocolate chips or cacao nibs

Peanut Butter:

1-2 tbsp natural peanut butter or peanut butter powder

Maple Brown Sugar:

1 tbsp raw cane sugar (finely blended and used as the sweetener for the base recipe)
1 tsp molasses
½ tsp maple extract

Banana Bread: (top with toasted walnuts or pecans and slices of banana)

1 large overripe bananas mashed into a paste
½ tbsp salted butter melted
pinch cinnamon powder
½ tbsp raw cane sugar (finely blended)
1 tsp molasses

Apple Pie: (topped with granola)

½ medium apples (peeled and diced)
¼ tsp apple pie spice (a combination of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cardamom)

Pumpkin Pie:

1 tbsp raw cane sugar (finely blended and used as the sweetener for the base recipe)
2-3 tbsp pumpkin puree
¼ tsp pumpkin pie spice (a combination of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, ginger)
¼ tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp orange extract

Almond Joy: (top with slivers of toasted almonds)

2-3 tbsp shredded coconut unsweetened
2-3 tbsp dark chocolate chips or cacao nibs
¼ tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

Add all ingredients into a jar or container (with a lid) and thoroughly mix everything together. Cover your oats and place it into the fridge from anywhere from 2-8 hours.
To serve: thoroughly stir your oats and enjoy, or finish with any topping of your choosing (see notes).

Notes

Keep in mind chia seeds can absorb up to 10 times their volume in liquid so 1 tbsp of seeds will be able to fully absorb 1 cup of liquid, so be sure to adjust your liquid levels to suit.
Topping Choices:
- Toasted nuts, crushed or sliced such as walnuts, almond, pecans, pistachios, etc.
- Fruit: Fresh, frozen, dried or made into a compote/jam.
- Toasted Coconut Flakes.
- Granola.
- Dark chocolate chips/chunks or cacao nibs
- A sprinkle of spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, or a combination like pumpkin pie spice or apple pie spice.

The nutritional value of this recipe is calculated only on the base recipe of oats, milk, maple syrup and salt. Other toppings, add-ins and flavor combinations are not included in the nutritional calculation.

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