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Overnight Oats in a Jar with Yogurt

Any fruit, berries, sauces, or jams work for these oats. To set yourself up with a tasty, healthy breakfast, you don't have to get up early and cook. Just put together overnight oats in a jar with whatever add-ins you like the evening before. In the morning, all that's left is to boil water for tea or coffee.

Maria

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Rolled oats (quick-cooking)

150

Milk

100

Yogurt (120 g cherry, 120 g plain)

240

Frozen cherries

Chia seeds (optional)

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 20 % 7 g

Fats 14 % 5 g

Carbohydrates 66 % 23 g

144 kcal

GI: 13 / 87 / 0

Cooking method

Step 1:

How do you make overnight oats with yogurt? Gather the ingredients. For overnight oats in a jar you'll need: 150 g quick-cooking rolled oats; 100 ml milk; 120 g cherry yogurt; 120 g plain yogurt; 50 g frozen cherries; 1 tbsp chia seeds (optional).
Step 2:

Add the chia seeds to the plain yogurt and stir. Chia seeds are incredibly popular right now, so they're often added to overnight oats. But they're completely optional.
Step 3:

Divide half the rolled oats evenly among clean jars.
Step 4:

Pour milk over the oats.
Step 5:

Put the cherry yogurt on top of the oats and milk.
Step 6:

Spread the cherries on top.
Step 7:

Pour the remaining rolled oats over the cherries.
Step 8:

Spoon the yogurt with chia seeds onto the oats.
Step 9:

Screw the lids tightly onto the jars of oats. If you like, you can shake the jars to mix the contents. Put the oats in the fridge overnight. In the morning, a healthy, tasty breakfast is ready - all that's left is to pour tea or coffee. Enjoy!

These oats are called "overnight" for a reason: there's no cooking at all. The simplest version: pour the oats into a jar with a lid, add milk and yogurt, screw on the lid, and refrigerate overnight. By morning the oats will have softened and breakfast is ready. They take literally five minutes to put together - everything else happens while you sleep soundly. Very convenient. This isn't the first time I'd heard about overnight oats, but I only got around to them now. And, as always, I decided not to keep it simple and to mix up the ingredients. So my oats have two kinds of yogurt, berries, chia seeds, and a gorgeous look. You can use homemade yogurt - see homemade yogurt recipes here. Plain cooked oatmeal looks unappealing, but with overnight oats there's plenty of room for creativity. These taste more like a dessert. For some reason, they personally reminded me of a lavash cake with yogurt cream I made last year. Anyway, I've decided to set aside the pot I usually cook oatmeal in every morning and sleep an extra 10 minutes instead. They say overnight oats in a jar can be used for weight loss. Maybe so, but I have no experience with that. If you've tried losing weight with oats, write about it.