Do you have a fast lifestyle? Are you a college/graduate student or busy working at home or in the office? You know the saying, breakfast is the day’s most important meal. Overnight oats are a hardy and gut-filling meal that can help with your diet needs if you require a quick meal in the morning or a snack. The best part about this recipe is not only are overnight oats nutritious, but they also have only six ingredients. My fiancé loves this recipe for her busy mornings. It has saved her time in the morning and is a big part of both our diets as of now. This recipe and details are for one serving. If you want batches, repeat the steps for each mason jar. I hope you enjoy it!
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Step 1: To start, get out your favorite kitchen scale. The one I have linked to above is my favorite. Now, let’s gather the ingredients together. Now the order in how you put in your ingredients matters. If you put the sweetener and the chia seeds together, the chia seeds will clump when you go to shake the mason jar. Then when it is breakfast time, you will have clumpy chia seeds, which is not fun to eat. The best part about the kitchen scale is the tare function. The tare function makes it easier to measure multiple ingredients in the same container. To tare to the scale means to zero out the weight. If you had five pounds in your bowl, and you hit the tare function, that weight would disappear. Then you could add your next ingredient to the bowl.
Step 2: Set your jar on the scale, and hit the tare function. Put the chia seeds in first (hit the tare function), then add your oats. The oats will cause a barrier from the sweetener, so no clump! Also, don’t forget to hit tare. The tare function resets the
Step 3: Next, add your favorite dried fruit and sweetener. Remember to tare each time you put an ingredient in!
Step 4: Finally, add your favorite milk. If the milk doesn’t go down, use the chopstick to poke around until the milk reaches the bottom. After you have filled the mansion jar, shake hard to combine the ingredients.
Step 5: After your mason jar is shaken, not stirred, store it in the fridge until breakfast tomorrow morning. In the morning, you can add toppings like fresh fruit, nuts, or even more dried fruit.
**Things to consider! You benefit most from the recipe when you do it the night before or in batches! Also, the overnight nights are just a baseline; there are multiple of flavor combinations that you can use to make your overnight oats. A few examples are peanut butter and jelly, chocolate cocoa powder and peanut butter, coconut milk and tropical fruit, or raspberries and chocolate cocoa powder. Be imaginative, and think of crazy and delicious ideas!