overnight oats

[anothernotherone]

If I soak oats in milk overnight are they overnight oats?

Or do they have to be a faffy combination of ingredients?

Supposedly overnight oats have more health benefits, not sure whether it's because they're not cooked, or because people put chai and stuff in the mix...

Bircher muesli is the original overnight oats.

It’s oats, some nuts and raisins soaked in yogurt and a grated apple and then some berries added in the morning.

The new varieties have more things added, spices and sweeteners, BM is more simple.

They are the same thing.

I usually just have oats with water nuked in the microwave in the morning but have just been done for a vit b12 deficiency and have read soaked oats let you absorb the nutrients better. Apparently by nuking it I'm taking the good stuff out?

utterflapdoodle that sounds as though he thought you ate Müsli dry, without adding milk at all, not as though only horses don't soak musli overnight.

I actually live in Germany too and nobody I've ever discussed or eaten breakfast with eats musli or breakfast cereal at all (though someone must because there's a range, though smaller than in the UK, in every supermarket). People all eat various forms of bread with cheese/ meat/ Frischkäse/ Nutella and fruit, yogurt, and the ubiquitous hard boiled eggs as far as I know, though I really only remember breakfast in a toddlers group context and the dreaded "gemeinsam Frühstück" - Certainly no Müsli or porridge or cereal involved.

I actually work in a supported living setting now and musli is on offer at breakfast alongside all the crispy bread rolls, various types of bread and plates of cold meat and cheese etc but not presoaked.

I'm doing 16:8 but have oats soaking in milk in the fridge to eat later.

If you add yogurt/kefir and a food source for the good bacteria such as Apple juice, leaving it to soak overnight really increases the amount of beneficial bacteria.

I like mine with fresh chopped peach, when they are in season, with Greek yogurt, apple juice and eithe almond milk or semi-skimmed. A very light dusting of cinnamon is very nice too.

Tolleshunt isn't the bacteria all long gone in pasteurised, refrigerated yogurt?

Does anyone know what exactly kefir is meant to be food for? And what is quark? I like the tart flavour of it though.

Try them but I hated them, I prefer microwave porridge, 2 mins and done

another depends which yogurt you buy. Most of the bog standard Greek yogurts you buy in the supermarket are properly live (I know they are, I have used them as starters to make my own yogurt!).

My preference is Tim's dairy. Yeo valley and Rachel's are also good quality (though Yeo is a bit too sour for me). Even Tesco and Sainsbury's own brand are fine.

Doing the soaking overnight allows the existing bacteria in the yogurt to multiply, so you get more bang for your buck. If using Kefir, this may result in some, ahem, symptoms, in those not used to it, so my advice would be to go slow to begin with.

Tolleshunt that's interesting, I assumed pasteurisation would kill off good and bad bacteria together.

I'm not sure, but I think the pasteurisation may refer to the milk before it's made into yogurt? You need to scale the milk before adding the starter, to ensure you are not also culturing bad bacteria. I use UHT when making yogurt myself, to avoid this step and save time.

The live yogurts usually state on the label which bacteria they contain, and that they are live cultures. Fage and Tim's certainly do (Fage also is decently live and good for making yogurt).

I put mix oats, soya milk and fruit overnight in the fridge. But I can't eat them cold - yuk. I microwave all the goodness out of them when I get to work in the morning.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD I think Quark is the same thing as fromage frais. It's Made from curds, it's very low fat naturally but for some reason often sold thickened with cream. It's not yogurt but can be used as yogurt, a lot of people people seem to use it in place of cream-cheese in recipes where I live. had to Google kefir I've never seen it for sale where I live, although there are 97 types of quark.

Oh I see. The stuff I buy is quark and kefir - so it’s like a thick whipped yoghurt and beautifully tart.

I ate my overnight oats (basic version made with ordinary milk) with local honey and chopped banana and can confirm that I like it. kids not tried it. It's warm and sunny here, I'm not sure it would hit the spot in winter. I will buy quark next time I go shopping to try it that way.

I do oats, natural yogurt, half an apple grated. Add strawberries, raisins and sliced almonds the next day. I make 2 portions at a time to save faff.

Can you cut/grate apple the night before and mix with oats and yoghurt or will the apple go brown and make it yucky by morning?

I find overnight oats grim. Soggy museli crossed with cold porridge! It needs some sweetness to make it palatable, that's my only tip. Ripe blueberries or sweet strawberries and or honey work well.

I gtate it the night before and mix it in well. As long as it's nicely mixed in its fine, I do 2 days worth and it's never gone yucky! I do use a small apple though.

50g oats
150g yogurt
Half small apple
Splash milk or water so it's not too thick .

Add topping in the morning. Or if I'm going to be rushing I'll add frozen berries at night.

I did it with tinned pineapple and that was delicious actually but the chunks had been in syrup which probably helped!

I do splash of milk, Greek yog, chia seeds and mixed frozen fruit. Leave overnight and add honey before eating.

Sometimes add peanut butter if super hungry

It's not grim provided you get it out of the fridge in enough time for the chill to come off it, IMO.

Doesn't quite hit the spot in the depths of winter, though. Then it's time for porridge....

It's nice with prunes, and a bit of the juice from the can.

Thank you for this thread! You've converted me