Overnight Summer Oats

Welcome overnight, refrigerator oatmeal to your summer mornings. Forget about those kinds that come in a pack and you microwave, forget about standing in front of a burner for ten minutes.
By Mariela Alvarez Toro

It is Monday morning; you are tired from a hopefully fun-packed weekend. The overwhelming fact that this week above all others will be hard is keeping you unmotivated to get up. You capitalize on the little bits of energy that start to surface and go to the gym. You come back hungry for breakfast. What if, instead of that same old cereal, you had a bowl of heart healthy, fiber rich oatmeal waiting for you? What if this oatmeal required little to no preparation, and was sweetened with the ripest of summer’s stone fruits? What if this oatmeal was cold and refreshing, yet satisfying and energy packed?

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Welcome overnight, refrigerator oatmeal to your summer mornings. Forget about those kinds that come in a pack and you microwave, forget about standing in front of a burner for ten minutes. This recipe takes minimal effort while gaining all the health benefits. Most of the work goes to remembering to soak oatmeal overnight. And if you want to get fancy, macerate some stone fruit with almonds and vanilla for decadent sweetness. Your summer mornings just got better.;

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Summer Oats


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  • Author: Mariela Alvarez Toro
  • Total Time: 8 hours 5 minutes
  • Yield: 1 1x

Description

Kiss processed cereal good-bye. This is the breakfast to eat this summer.


Ingredients

Scale
  • ¼ cup (20g)steel cut or old fashioned oatmeal
  • ¼ cup (6dl) almond milk (or milk of choice)
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 plum
  • 1 teaspoon almond extract
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1-teaspoon maple syrup
  • 56 almonds
  • Almond milk to taste

Instructions

  1. In a small cereal bowl place almond milk, oatmeal, and salt.
  2. Stir and let sit, covered overnight.
  3. When ready to eat, slice plums into thin slices and place in bowl.
  4. Add maple syrup, vanilla, and almond extracts.
  5. With a pestle lightly press plums so that they start to release juices. Transfer plums into bowl with oatmeal. Mix.
  6. Add more almonds milk if desired.
  7. Garnish with several almonds.
  8. Eat immediately.
  • Prep Time: 5 mins
  • Cook Time: 8 hours

 

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  1. Sounds tasty, but I’d be more prone to believing the hype about oatmeal being optimal for health and on-ness, never mind just trusting the recipe, if it had been even minimally typo-checked! e.g. “almond or milk or choice”, and “1 teaspoon almond extract / 1 teaspoon almond extract” (guess one should be vanilla, but moreover, that’s double the amount of flavour-extract typically added to a whole batch of cookies? Hmm…) ;-b






  2. Mo. I apologize for the typos. I guess when one works 60plus hour weeks, and has the desire share knowledge through a food blog, one is prone to making mistakes. I will be more careful, just for you, next time. I hope you enjoy future recipes as much as I enjoy sharing the results of experiments in the kitchen and passion for food.

    I urge you to try the recipe. It is delicious and energizing. And you are right, you can use any nut milk or water, and substitute the almond extract for vanilla if you are not into it. Again, I apologize, must have been tired when I wrote it.Even though I know it is not an excuse.

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