Hazelnut and chocolate overnight oats

What are overnight oats?

Oats are eaten as breakfast food in many parts of the world. Usually they're cooked with milk or water and served warm, as porridge or oatmeal.

When you make overnight oats, sometimes called bircher muesli, you don't need to cook them at all.

The oats are soaked in milk and left in the fridge overnight. As the hours pass by the oats soak up the milk becoming nice and soft.

Overnight oats often have a slightly chewy texture that I love.

Make it your own

You can add nuts, seeds and fruit to overnight oats - just use whatever ingredients you love.

As long as the oats and other ingredients are covered with the milk it'll turn out great.

I do think that the hazelnut and chocolate combination is particularly good though!

Overnight oats are usually eaten cold. However, I sometimes warm them up to give them to my little boy who isn't a fan of "cold porridge".

More overnight oats recipes

I'm a big fan of overnight oats, or bircher muesli, and I've got several other recipes on my kid food blog, Sneaky Veg. Check them out here:

• Zoats zucchini (courgette) overnight oats
• Christmas pudding overnight oats
• Carrot cake overnight oats

Alternatively you might like this cinnamon banana porridge, quince compote or these vegan breakfast recipes.