Overnight Oats Recipes
Five-minute overnight oats in mason jars — high-protein, chocolate, peanut butter, and fruit-forward bases for a week of breakfasts.
★ Overnight Oats
Overnight OatsChoc chip cookie dough overnight oats
Easy grab and go for meal prepped breakfast throughout the week (3 servings)
Victoria TschoppIngredients
- 1.5 cups Rolled oats
- 1.5 cups Almond milk
- 1.5 cups Bananas
- 3 tbsp Maple syrup
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp Chocolate chips
Instructions
- 1Blend all ingredients in blender until everything is smooth
- 2Pour oat mixture into 3 separate containers.
- 3Add in 1 Tbsp each of chocolate chips and mix in.
- 4Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- 5The next morning, remove oats from fridge, and top with whatever you like! I topped mine with banana, cacao nibs, blueberries, and strawberries.
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Open in Pepper →Why Overnight Oats Are the Best Meal Prep Hack
Overnight oats turn breakfast into a 5-minute Sunday task. Stir, refrigerate, eat for the rest of the week.
The base is always the same: oats, liquid, and chia or yogurt for body. Everything after that is just flavor: cocoa, peanut butter, frozen berries, vanilla, banana.
Use rolled oats, not steel-cut or instant. Steel-cut never softens, instant turns to mush — rolled hit the sweet spot every time.
Quick Tips
- 1
1:1 oats-to-liquid
Equal parts rolled oats and milk creates the perfect creamy texture. Less liquid = paste, more = soupy.
- 2
Add chia for body
A tablespoon of chia seeds thickens the mixture and adds protein and fiber without changing the flavor.
- 3
Skip steel-cut
Steel-cut oats need cooking — they stay tough overnight. Only rolled oats soften properly in the fridge.
- 4
Layer wet toppings
Frozen berries thaw and bleed into the oats overnight, which is great for flavor. Crunchy toppings go on right before eating.
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