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Chocolate overnight oats

For the kid who says he does not like oats. Made the night before.

Servings
1
Total
5 min
Skill
Easy

What you need

Ingredients

Making for

1 serving

  • Rolled oats0.5 cup
  • Milk1 cup
  • Plain Greek yogurt0.25 cup
  • Unsweetened cocoa powder1 tbsp
  • Honey1 tbsp
  • Chia seeds1 tbsp
  • Bananas0.5 each

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Steps

  1. 1

    Cocoa into the milk first, as a paste

    One tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa with about 2 tbsp of the milk, stirred into a smooth paste before anything else goes in. Cocoa dumped onto cold oats clumps into dry pockets that survive the whole night.

  2. 2

    Oats, the rest of the milk, yogurt, honey

    Half a cup of rolled oats, the rest of the cup of milk, a quarter cup of Greek yogurt, a tablespoon of honey, and a tablespoon of chia seeds. Stir properly, not just on the surface.

  3. 3

    Lid on, fridge, at least six hours

    Overnight is ideal. Under four hours the oats are still chewy and the chia has not gelled, which is the texture people mean when they say they do not like overnight oats.

  4. 4

    Banana in the morning, not the night before

    Sliced banana on top at eating time. Left in overnight it goes brown and slimy, and it is the thing most likely to get the whole jar rejected.

Coach's notes

  • Elvis does not eat oatmeal, and this is one of the two versions that gets around it. Cold, chocolate, and nothing like a bowl of porridge.
  • Unsweetened cocoa, not drinking chocolate, which is mostly sugar.
  • About 16 g of protein with the yogurt, and the oats are why it holds until lunch.
  • Three jars on a Sunday night is about eight minutes and covers half the school week.