Prepping for one? It’s easy to halve the recipe here, giving you 3 portions (220g each) for the days ahead.
Eat Yourself Healthy
By Jamie Oliver
10 mins plus overnight soaking
Super easy
makes 6 portions
About the recipe
Making a quick batch of overnight oats that will sit happily in the fridge for up to 3 days, ready to be transformed with all kinds of different flavours, is a really helpful, nutritious, delicious thing to have in your life. This is the mothership recipe, which is perfectly tasty in its own right, but when you check out the other variations (see below), you’ll see there’s a whole lot more to love about this breakfast…
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Ingredients
2 ripe bananas (320g)
700ml semi-skimmed milk or your favourite unsweetened, fortified plant milk
2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
300g porridge oats
2 eating apples
Top Tip
Be sure to use gluten-free oats, to keep this gluten-free, and your favourite unsweetened, fortified plant milk to keep this dairy-free and vegan.
Method
- In a blender, blitz the peeled bananas with the milk and vanilla until smooth, then pour over the oats in a bowl. Coarsely grate in the apples, mix well, then cover and pop into the fridge overnight to do its thing.
- The next day, stir well, correct the consistency with a little extra milk, if needed, then either tuck in as it is, adding a handful of your favourite seasonal fruit, unsalted nuts or seeds, or choose one of the following epic flavours (Peach Melba, Cherry Bakewell, Berry Cheesecake and Tiramisù – each makes one tasty portion when paired with 220g of Mothership overnight oats. Fill. Your. Boots.
Swap ripe bananas for green bananas – they contain more prebiotic fibres that feed your healthy gut bacteria. They’re also a resistant starch, so their sugars are released much slower, giving you a great start to the day.
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