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Photo of a white bowl from above. The bowl contains overnight oats, with halved strawberries and blueberries arranged on top resembling a flower. The bowl rests on a blue oilcloth.
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Overnight Oats

5 ingredients in a jar in the fridge: delicious and healthy
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Prep Time 5 minutes
Resting time 12 hours
Servings 8
Calories 285kcal
Author Adam Barnett

Equipment

  • 1 Half gallon widemouth mason jar Or any large enough container with a lid
  • 1 Measuring jug or cup measures Or just eyeball it. You'll be fine.

Ingredients

  • 3 cup Rolled oats
  • 3 cup 2% milk Plant-based milk probably fine too, although I didn't test it yet
  • 1.5 cup Plain Greek yoghurt I use 5%
  • 1/3 cup Chia seeds These the finished product a pudding-y gel texture, as well as providing some textural variation
  • 3 tbsp Maple syrup You could leave this out but that's your loss

Instructions

  • Put all the ingredients into the mason jar, milk first to avoid clumping at the bottom.
    Overnight oats ingredients in a mason jar, not yet mixed.
  • Shake the jar vigorously to combine the ingredients.
    A large mason jar containing overnight oats. The background of the photo is a garden.
  • Put the jar in the fridge.

Notes

Usually I prefer weighing ingredients. Even if it's slightly more work, the results are more precise and reproducible. In this case, however, there's no need to bust out the scales; the ingredient ratios don't matter exactly, and this keeps things as quick and easy as possible. This is barely more work than making a bowl of cereal.