Overnight oats are a great way to get a nutritious, hearty breakfast ready for your family with minimal effort. If you’re trying to replace store bought cereals, cause let’s be honest, they are expensive, unhealthy and absolutely not filling. These chocolate overnight oats are simple, super tasty and will keep you full until lunch.
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Ingredients for chocolate overnight oats
This recipe uses only six simple ingredients, which you probably already have in your home.
- oats, rolled or old fashioned
- chia seeds
- milk
- pure maple syrup
- cocoa or cacao powder
- sea salt – we love Redmond’s Real Salt
If you’d like an even richer taste and a bit of probiotic goodness added to this chocolate overnight oats you can sub half of the milk needed with yogurt. We like whole fat yogurt that we make ourselves.
This recipe will make enough to feed several people. A lot of overnight oats recipes only make enough for one, maybe two, people. Since I have five kiddo’s to feed, those small recipes simply won’t do. So, if you are looking for a bulk overnight oats recipe, this is a great one and it can be easily modified to your taste preferences or bulked up even more.
How to make overnight oats
Gather your ingredients and a medium sized mixing bowl, about 3 quarts. Add all the dry ingredients first. The oats, chia seeds, salt, and cocoa powder. Since cocoa powder is hydrophobic it’s a lot easier to combine when mixed up before adding the milk.
Next, add the milk and mix it all up. Cover the bowl and place in the fridge overnight. We like to enjoy this cold, but feel free to warm it up in the morning if you’d prefer.
You can top it off with some chopped nuts, cocoa nibs, or even marshmallow fluff and graham crackers… though, that’s more of a desert than a breakfast.
And that’s it.
Overnight oats are probably one of the simplest meal preps you’ll ever do and it makes breakfast time super convenient and affordable. If you’d like more make ahead breakfast ideas this baked oatmeal, French toast casserole, and granola are go to’s in my home.
If you give this recipe a try, I’d love to know what you think in the comments below.
Happy homemaking 😊
Chocolate Overnight Oats
Ingredients
- 4 cups oats rolled or old fashioned
- 1/2 cup chia seeds
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 3/4 cup pure maple syrup
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 4 cups milk of choice, dairy or non dairy
Instructions
- Combine dry ingredients into a medium sized mixing bowl.
- Add milk to the dry ingredients and stir until combined.
- Cover and place in the fridge overnight.
- Serve chilled or warm up if desired. Optional toppings are chopped nuts, cocoa nibs, peanut butter, or whatever you'd like. Will stay good for up to one week in the fridge.
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