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!
Servings: 1
Calories: 282kcal
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.