Overnight Oats - How did I screw it up?

Wol5894

Overnight oats? Why?

Being from Scotland, I make porridge the old-fashioned (well almost) - and i don't apologise for the metric weights, as I have gone totally over to that for all my cooking now:

50g dry weight of oats
125mls skimmed milk
200 mls water

Mix all above in a large mixing bowl. (and I do mean large or it will boil over). Put in microwave, and cook for 3 minutes on full power (this is an 800 watt microwave).

Remove from microwave, stir well, return to microwave and cook for a further 2 minutes on full power.

Remove from microwave, stir, then pour into serving dish. Sprinkle sweetener powder on top (2 teaspoons). Top off with 25g of dried raisins, eh Voila - you have a lovely, creamy, portion controlled bowl of porridge.

What IS it with people wanting to add Greek yoghurt - it is not needed at all, nor are all these fancy bits of peanut butter, chocolate or whatever - just plain old oats (I think in the USA they called them steel cut or something. I buy my local supermarket's "value" line, as it seems to work better than the posh rolled oats).
If I was doing it really properly, I would be adding only water and putting salt on it, not sweetener powder, but I can't quite take that, so I replace some of the water with milk.

My routine is to go round to the kitchen, put the kettle on to boil, make up all the ingredients in the bowl, using some of the water that is boiling from the kettle, then make my cup of tea. Put the porridge in the oven for the first 3 minutes, during which time the tea brews. Add milk to my tea, stir the porridge, put it back in for the 2nd cook, weigh out the raisins (whilst sipping tea). When 2nd cook time is over, serve the porridge, put sweetening powder on BEFORE the raisins (latter taste foul with sweetener on), then top off with the raisins. Sit and eat, whilst sipping tea (550mls of tea at that). Get dressed whilst sipping tea and out the door and off to work - simple!

That breakfast lasts me pretty much all morning - I only stop for a coffee break (real coffe made in a cafetiere - none of your instant stuff).

mydeloo78

Someday I'm going to try this, although I do just like regular oatmeal also.

mamagooskie

All I use is oats and milk, soak over night then if I want fruit, nuts, jam, protein powder I add it right before I eat it.

joanie152

I'm hungry now. Thanks all..

cbevan1229

I add a tsp of honey and generous shake of cinnamon to mine. I think the cinnamon really helps to offset the sour taste of the yogurt. So I do 1/3c each yogurt, coconut milk, and oats, 1/2 a mashed up banana, and the cinnamon and honey.

rompers16

bump

fbmandy55

I made mine with greek yogurt for the first time and I couldn't doctor it up enough to eat. :sick:

I typically do:

1/3 cup oats
1/3 cup choclate unsweetened almond milk
a couple spoonfulls of plain fat free yogurt (not greek)
a glob of PB
half a sliced banana
cinnamon or honey if I can taste too much yogurt

YUM!