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Overnight No Cook Oatmeal

By Kate Morgan Jackson

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Give a whole new spin to your oatmeal with this delicious and easy overnight no cook oatmeal recipe that cooks in your refrigerator!

Overnight No Cook Oatmeal

Let me just start by saying I Love Oatmeal.  Sweet oatmeal, savory oatmeal, oatmeal for breakfast, oatmeal for lunch.

Don’t even get me started on oatmeal cookies. I could be president of the Oatmeal Appreciation Society.  I am that devoted to you, oatmeal.

But up until recently with the exception of the oatmeal cookies, I had only had my many variations of oatmeal hot.  But then I got swept up into this wave of making oatmeal without cooking it, but rather by letting it sit in a bath of milk and other good things in your fridge overnight until it was soft and sweet.

Could overnight no cook oatmeal work?  Read on, oatmeal lovers.

The short answer is yes, yes, a thousand times yes.  The long answer involves telling you how overnight oatmeal happens, followed by me begging you to give it a try.

Here’s how you make overnight no cook oatmeal!

You start with one cup of rolled oats (the kind in your regular old round Quaker Oats box) and one cup of your choice of milk.  Whole, skim, soy, almond…it will all work.

Mix the oats and the milk together, and if you are a purist, you are done.

I am not a purist, so I tossed in a couple of tablespoons of dried blueberries, a little cinnamon, some chopped walnuts, a little vanilla and a generous tablespoon of honey.

I did all of this in a mason jar, partly because I love eating anything out of mason jars, and partly because it was exactly the right single serving size, and it had a lid, and I’m always looking for excuses to use my mason jars.

Now pop it in the fridge for about 12 hours.  If you want your oatmeal for breakfast then just mix this up after dinner – we had ours for supper so I put it in the fridge before I left for work.

While you are snoozing, the oatmeal is going to absorb most of the that milk and get all lovely and soft and perfect.  When it’s time to eat, give the whole thing a stir.

We topped ours with a little granola and chopped fresh pear and pomegranate seeds, and the second time I made it we had it with fresh blueberries and raspberries on top.  HEAVEN.

A few other things to tell you about this.

First, it’s obviously going to be cold if you eat it right out the fridge (which was actually pretty wonderful), or you can let it come to room temperature.  If you absolutely NEED to have your oatmeal warm, a minute or two in the microwave will do the trick.

Second, oatmeal made this way won’t be as soft and mushy as the stovetop kind.  It has a little rustic chewiness to it that I love.

And third, while I have heard tell that folks have made this with steel cut oats (those little hard oatmeal nuggets), I did try that variation and didn’t like it nearly as much as the rolled oats variety.  The steel cut oats did soften up, but the milk and the oats didn’t come together as perfectly as they did with the rolled oats variety.

Last but not least, as long as you do the one cup oats/one cup milk mixture, you can get as creative as you want with the mix-ins.  Things that are on my list to mix in to future overnight oatmeal meals are coconut, molasses, raisins, maple syrup…you get the idea.

And I’ll end with the plea I mentioned earlier: please give this a try?  I can’t bear for you to miss out on the fabulousness that is overnight oatmeal.

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Overnight No Cook Oatmeal


  • Author: Kate Morgan Jackson
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 10 minutes
  • Yield: 1 serving, can be increased infinitely! 1x
  • Category: Breakfast
  • Method: No Cook
  • Cuisine: American
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Give a whole new spin to your oatmeal with this delicious and easy overnight no cook oatmeal recipe that cooks in your refrigerator!


Ingredients

  • 1 cup rolled oats
  • 1 cup milk (any kind)
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 2 tablespoons raisins or other dried fruit
  • 2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Fresh chopped fruit and/or granola as topping

Instructions

  1. Mix together oats and milk in a jar or bowl.
  2. Add in the honey, dried fruit, nuts, cinnamon, vanilla and/or any other mix-ins you like. Be creative!
  3. Cover the oatmeal and place in the refrigerator for 10-12 hours.
  4. When you are ready to eat it, give everything a stir, top with fresh fruit and/or granola if you like and dig in!
65042.4 g119.2 mg14.5 g5 g0.2 g102.6 g10.5 g21.1 g19.7 mg

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Kate Morgan Jackson

Hi there!  I’m Kate, and I’m a recipe writer, food photographer and devoted bacon lover.  I started Framed Cooks in 2009, and my mission is to create and share family-friendly recipes that make cooking both easy and fun…yes, I said FUN!  My kitchen is my happy place, and I want yours to be that place too.  And if you make this recipe, I would love you to tag @FramedCooks on Instagram so I can see the deliciousness!

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Published on March 23, 2014

Good for: Brunch, Comfort Foods

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  1. Karen Nelson says

    March 23, 2014 at 1:59 pm

    This sounds great! Been eating steel cut and they have
    More of the rustic oatmeal texture and flavor.
    Thanks for the timesaver for breakfast or for supper!
    Hope all is well:-)

    Reply
    • Kate says

      March 24, 2014 at 7:54 am

      My pleasure as always! Hope all is well on your end too. :)

      Reply
  2. Joanne says

    March 24, 2014 at 7:29 am

    Yay for oatmeal! I’ve only gone the overnight oats route a handful of time, but they are always a welcome meal to wake up to in the morning!

    Reply
    • Kate says

      March 24, 2014 at 7:53 am

      I seriously may never go back to the cooked kind!

      Reply

Hi, I’m Kate! I’m a recipe writer, food photographer and devoted bacon lover. I’m so glad you’re here!

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