- Hey, guys, it's Yumna from Feel Good Foodie.
It's a new year filled with new goals and a fresh start
and if you're looking to incorporate an easy,
healthy breakfast into your routine
then you have to try my overnight oats recipe.
All you really need to make it is oats and milk
but I'm gonna share with you my flavorful base recipe
plus four different ways to customize it.
That way, you can batch prep these
at the beginning of the week
and enjoy them all throughout the week.
They last in the fridge for up to five to seven days
so it's a great make ahead recipe.
This is a nutritious filling breakfast
that's gonna make your body feel so good
and yes, you can heat them up and enjoy them warm.
All right, so here's what you need to make the recipe.
We'll use some oats.
I like to use rolled oats.
As you can see, this is the kind I like to use.
I don't recommend quick oats
because they're just gonna get soggy
and I don't recommend steel-cut oats
because they're not going to absorb the milk enough
to be palatable the next day.
Next, you need milk
but you can also actually make this with water.
So if you wanted to, you can skip the milk altogether
or try any kind of milk you want or just use water.
Third, I like to use some chia seeds in there
just for added fiber, omega-3 fatty acids
and also some good protein in there.
I also like to add maple syrup to sweeten it
and some Greek yogurt to thicken it up
and help absorb the chia seeds.
So let's get started.
This is some overnight oats
that I prepared overnight last night.
So this is what the final consistency is going to look like
and I'm gonna show you how to prepare it now.
We're gonna do half a cup of oats, half a cup of milk,
a tablespoon of chia seeds,
a couple tablespoons or up to a fourth of a cup
of Greek yogurt or also regular plain yogurt
and you don't really need a sweetener
but I think it's pretty bland without one.
So I like to add about a tablespoon of maple syrup
and it doesn't have to be perfect either.
You can just eyeball it.
Now, I'm just gonna go ahead and use the spoon
to stir it all up.
You wanna make sure that none of the chia seeds
are clumped together
and you wanna make sure that there's no maple syrup
that's pooling at the bottom of the cup and that's it.
That's all it takes to make overnight oats.
So what you're gonna do now
is put this in the fridge overnight until the next morning
and then you can enjoy it cold
or you can put this in the microwave and enjoy it warm.
If you want, you can add fruit to it today
or you can add fruit fresh the next day.
So as you can see, this is what the consistency starts
and this has how it ends.
So you'll notice that the oats
have absorbed all that liquid, it's become softer,
even the chia seeds have plumped up a little bit
and there's no more liquid pooling around in it.
So you'll go from this to this.
All right, now I'm gonna share with you
four fun ways to customize overnight oats.
There's so many different ways to customize them
so you can add different fruits, different dried fruits,
nuts, nut butters, seeds, syrups, powders, protein powders.
There's just so many different fun ways to eat these.
So just have fun with them.
And here's four ways that I like to enjoy it.
This first one I'm gonna call peanut butter jelly.
So we'll do some peanut butter, strawberry jelly over that
and then just to exaggerate the peanut butter
and strawberry flavor,
I'm also going to add some crushed peanuts
and sliced strawberries.
Okay, that looks so good.
Even if you're not a kid,
peanut butter and jelly overnight oats, yum.
That looks delicious.
The second one I call apple pie.
So we're gonna start with some apples,
drizzle on some maple syrup, add some cinnamon and pecans
or as Video Matt calls them, pecans.
All right, that's apple pie for you.
That looks so good and you can enjoy it all year long
especially when apples are in season.
The third one is called banana Nutella.
So we're using just hazelnut chocolate spread.
So we're gonna add that on top.
We'll add some sliced bananas on top
and finish it off with some chocolate chips
and some crushed hazelnut.
All right, that's a Nutella banana one
that is so good for kids and adults.
The last one is an Almond Joy flavor.
Almond Joy is my favorite candy bar
and this one actually is my favorite
of the four different ones.
So we're gonna start with lots of almonds,
some chocolate chips, maple syrup and some shredded coconut
and that's the Almond Joy overnight oats.
So these are four fun ideas to have with overnight oats.
On a daily basis, I may not get this extravagant with them.
I may just throw some bananas on there
and some peanut butter but you get the idea.
There's just a lot of different ways to customize this.
It's a very nutritious recipe
that's filled with lots of protein, lots of fiber
that's just gonna keep you full and happy
and healthy all day long.
So it's time for Video Matt to try this recipe.
All right, Video Matt, which one?
He goes for the Nutella, okay.
I'm actually gonna give you the Nutella spoon
or here, I'm gonna give you the whole thing.
Awesome, I got a thumbs up.
So Video Matt likes the Nutella banana overnight oats
and I hope you guys try this recipe
and I hope you guys like it too.
Thank you for watching.
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