Overnight Oats have become one of my families all-time favorite breakfasts! Simple prep the night before, leading to a delicious, healthy, satisfying, grab-and-go breakfast the next morning. Who doesn’t love the sound of that?!
Since my Chocolate Strawberry Almond Overnight Oats were such a huge hit (if you haven’t tried it yet, you are missing out), I decided to create another wonderful combination…Orange Blueberry Vanilla Overnight Oats. I came up with this amazing combination when thinking of ways to use all the wonderful sweet home-grown navel oranges my mom and in-laws kept delivering whenever they visited the last few months. Of course our number one way to use them is simply making freshly squeezed orange juice, but after boxes and boxes of sweet large navel oranges, I knew I had to come up with a few creative recipes using them, two of which I’ve already posted – my Orange Coconut Blueberry Green Smoothie and Orange Julius Popsicles.
This recipe is a delightful combination of freshly squeezed orange juice, blueberries, almonds, and some vanilla extract. I decided to sweeten these overnight oats with bananas and a tiny bit of pure maple syrup (which you can easily omit). Of course, as always, I like to pre-process my oats in my Vitamix so that they are coarsely grounded. This, in combination with chia seeds, makes for a creamier texture. To make the prep easier, I typically process a bunch of oats at once and keep a stock of them in my pantry. Add in the other usual healthy ingredients, top it off with some almond milk, and you have yourself another delicious dessert-like overnight oat combination!
Stay tuned for a few more orange-inspired recipes coming to the blog soon!
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Orange Blueberry Vanilla Overnight Oats
INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup coarsely ground oats , measured after processed (see below)
- 1/2 tbsp ground flaxseeds
- 1.5 tbsp chia seeds
- 1/2 teasp vanilla extract
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tbsp pure maple syrup
- 1/2 ripe banana , mashed (or more depending on preferred level of sweetness)
- 1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk , or milk of choice
- 1/4 cup raw almonds , sliced
- 1/2 cup blueberries
- diced fresh oranges , optional
- vegan chocolate chips , optional
INSTRUCTIONS
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together the processed oats, ground flaxseeds, chia seeds, and a pinch of salt.
- Add in the rest of the ingredients (except for the chocolate chips) and completely mix together.
- Cover the mixing bowl and place in the fridge overnight. The oats should be ready the following morning!
- Serve cold or warm them up (I prefer cold). Feel free to adjust the sweetness (with maple syrup or bananas) or consistency (with additional almond milk). If desired, top the overnight oats with some additional blueberries, almonds, and/or cut pieces of fresh oranges.
- Top with some dark chocolate chips and enjoy!
Sonal
Made these overnight oats last night. WAS THE BEST START TO MY MONDAY! How do you come up with these recipes, Anjali?? Thanks so much for sharing. Can’t wait to try the chocolate strawberry overnight oats. Rishi, who is a chocolate lover, will wonder why I didn’t make that recipe first 🙂
anjali
Aren’t overnight oats awesome?!? I so wish EVERY morning when i forget to make them, that I had them to eat! I love them…the chocolate strawberry ones are my favorite as well…the kids think it’s dessert seriously. If he loves chocolate he will love them! And if you don’t have strawberries, I’ve simply added any other fruit (blueberries, raspberries, or even bananas mashed or pieces). If you add mashed bananas to the oats, then you don’t need to even add maple syrup to sweeten! Let me know how he likes them! Ok…I’m craving these for dinner now =) Thanks for letting me know…love the comments!
Monica
Hello,
I’m a newbie to the vegan world or should I say researching for health reasons before I can commit. My question is you don’t cook the oats at all? I grew up on oatmeal and love it, but for some odd reason when I eat oatmeal now I get a terrible headache. However I really would like to try your recipe.
anjali
Welcome to the vegan world! I’m actually a newly converted vegan myself as of a few months ago for ethical reasons. It was surprisingly very easy to convert and I’ve been loving it so far, not to mention all the great health benefits that come from avoiding dairy.
For this recipe, and for most overnight oat recipes, you do not have to cook the oats at all (sometimes if you use steel cut oats, they may require pre-cooking)! It’s so awesome how easy it is to prep the night before and they are ready to go the next morning. They basically cook themselves overnight because you soak them in liquid. Overnight oats are one of my favorite morning breakfasts. Do you have any other dietary restrictions, such as being gluten intolerant, etc? Just curious for your headaches. Let me know how you like the recipe if you end up giving it a try. I also have another favorite overnight oats recipe on my site – my chocolate strawberry overnight oats (they taste like dessert!). =)
P.desai
Very easy to masked and ready to go in the morning. Kids love it too.
P.desai
Overnight oat is very good. No rush in the morning.
Hashmanis
This is so pretty! I actually had oats this morning and was thinking it was kinda like a dessert haha….now if only every meal of the day was dessert! Hashmanis
anjali
Right?? Love overnight oats. My chocolate one is definitely dessert in the form of easy breakfast.
L
The Orange-Blueberry-Vanilla overnight oats recipe was excellent! We topped ours with the blueberries, mandarin oranges, granola and walnuts – and skipped the chocolate. To prepare our recipe we divided it into 4 servings and put each in a container that was slightly larger than needed to be which also had a lid. In the morning, we adding the toppings, replaced the lid and it was super-easy to grab and go on the way out the door. I am about to make the recipe again to use next week . . . thank you for sharing this:-).
anjali
Yay!! even though i’m a chocolate fan, This combo has always been one of my favorites! All your additions sound great! I actually take a bag of the dry mixed ingredients of overnight oats with us on travel – makes an easy healthy filling breakfast on the go even from a hotel room! I also have my chocolate strawberry overnight oats recipe.