Overnight oats in a jar: no cooking, ready in a minute in the morning
Rolled oats covered in the evening with milk, yogurt, honey and a spoon of seeds, which swell overnight in the fridge and turn creamy without any cooking. In the morning you add fruit and nuts and walk out the door with the jar. One batch makes two jars, and the preparation takes five minutes.
Your own work in that: 10 min.
- Mixing 5 min
- Overnight in the fridge 480 min
- Morning toppings 5 min
Step by step
0 / 5 doneMeasure the ingredients
Into two 400 ml jars put 50 g oats each, half a spoon of seeds, a pinch of vanilla sugar and salt. Rolled oats, not instant: instant oats turn to glue overnight.
Ingredients: 100 g rolled oats · 200 ml milk · 100 g natural yogurt · 2 tsp honey · 1 tbsp mixed seeds · 1 pinch vanilla sugar · 1 pinch salt
TipThe ratio to remember: oats, milk and yogurt at 1 : 2 : 1 by weight. It gives oats that are thick but not stodgy.
Rolled oats, seeds, jarsPour and stir
Pour 100 ml milk into each jar, add 50 g yogurt and a teaspoon of honey. Stir with a long spoon right to the bottom so no dry oats remain. Screw on the lids.
Milk, yogurt, honey, stirred to the bottomOvernight in the fridge
Refrigerate at least 6 hours, ideally overnight (about 8 hours). The oats absorb the liquid, the seeds swell and everything thickens. Sealed jars keep 3 days in the fridge, so you can make half a week's supply.
TipThe linseed in the seed mix works much like chia seeds: it binds the liquid and gives a creamy texture, and it costs far less.
Six hours minimum, three days maximumMorning: loosen
Take out a jar and stir. The oats are thick; if you prefer them looser, add a spoon or two of milk. Eat cold straight from the fridge, or warm a minute in the microwave on a cold morning.
Stir, add milk to tasteToppings on top
Fruit, sliced banana, chopped walnuts and a teaspoon of honey go on in the morning, not the evening: fruit releases juice and softens overnight, nuts lose their crunch. With the lid on, the jar travels to work or school.
Ingredients: 100 g raspberries or other fruit · 1 pcs banana · 30 g walnuts · 2 tsp honey
Fruit and nuts in the morning, not at night
Before you start
Chocolate
A teaspoon of cocoa and half a mashed banana stirred in at night: oats like a dessert, children eat them without questions.
Apple and cinnamon
Half an apple, coarsely grated, and half a teaspoon of cinnamon in the jar at night: the autumn version; the apple can soak with the oats.
Dairy-free
Oat or almond drink instead of milk and coconut yogurt, or simply 300 ml of the drink with no yogurt. Then one more spoon of seeds so it thickens.
