Overnight oats with banana and chia

Ingredients

• dry oats: 3-5 tbsp, about 50 g
• 1% milk: 1 cup, about 180 ml
• banana: 1 small, about 80 g
• chia: 1 tbsp, about 8 g

Instructions

1. Mix the oats, chia and milk in a jar and stir so that no lumps of chia are left: a dry lump inside will still be dry in the morning.
2. Close it and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, better overnight. The oats need that time to soften without cooking — that is the entire point.
3. Check the thickness in the morning: if the oats have drunk all the milk and set solid, add a couple of spoonfuls and stir.
4. Slice the banana in the morning, not the night before: overnight it darkens and leaves an over-ripe sweetness in the milk.
5. This keeps two days in the fridge — but only without the banana; with it, eat it the same day.

Nutrition

Contains: Gluten, Dairy

Swaps

• Oats can be swapped for buckwheat flakes or 1 slice of whole-grain bread.
• For porridge: dry grain 40-45 g instead of oats.
• The milk can be swapped for kefir, drinkable yogurt or unsweetened plant-based milk in the same amount.
• The fruit can be swapped for 1 medium seasonal fruit of about the same weight.
• For a less sweet option: 150 g of berries instead of 1 fruit.

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