These Banana Overnight Oats are easy to make with hearty oats, bananas a creamy topping and crunchy walnuts. It’s the perfect healthy make-ahead breakfast for busy mornings and only needs 5 minutes of prep time! Gluten-free, refined sugar-free, vegan and a healthy and satisfying breakfast everyone will love!
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Easy Banana Overnight Oats Recipe
Looking for quick and easy breakfasts for the new year? These Banana Overnight Oats take less than 5 minutes to make and are perfect for busy mornings. They’re made with uncooked rolled oats that you soak with liquid for about 4-5 hours (or overnight). Then in the morning, you have a healthy breakfast ready to enjoy. Other Overnight Oats recipes we love include Blueberry Overnight Oats, Peanut Butter Overnight Oats and these Apple Cinnamon Overnight Oats!
Why we love this healthy breakfast recipe
These Banana Nut Overnight Oats use simple kitchen staples and are super easy to customize depending on what you have in your pantry. This no cook recipe is perfect when you have some overripe bananas sitting on your counter and you don’t feel like turning on the oven. We love that you can make a batch on meal prep Sunday with your favorite flavors.
They’re gluten-free, refined-sugar free, vegan and can easily be made grain-free, paleo, low carb using my Keto Overnight Oats recipe.
Recipe Ingredients you need:
All you need to make overnight oats are just a few simple pantry ingredients:
- Oats: Overnight oats are typically made with old-fashioned rolled oats and sometimes quick oats. Use gluten free as needed.
- Non-dairy milk: Use your favorite dairy or dairy-free milk you like or have on hand. We usually like to use unsweetened almond milk but coconut milk, cashew milk all work great for a vegan option.
- Chia Seeds: Chia seeds give overnight oats that thick pudding-like texture and add extra fiber but feel free to leave them out if you aren’t a fan.
- Banana: be sure to use a very ripe banana that you’ll mash in. If you prefer a chunkier texture, you can just chop it instead.
- Liquid Sweetener: Leave out or use any sweetener you like – honey, maple syrup, a ripe banana, dates or any low-carb liquid sweetener like stevia, monk fruit or erythritol will work.
- Yogurt: We like to use a dairy-free Greek-style yogurt or thicker yogurt such as Kite-Hill, Yoggu, Culina, Cocojune or Cocoyo but regular / non-fat Greek yogurt works too if you’re not plant-based or dairy-free.
- Spices: ground cinnnamon + optional nutmeg
- Optional Walnut: chopped
How to make Banana Overnight Oats
These banana nut overnight oats are one of the easiest breakfasts that even your kids can help you assemble the night before. You can use a mason jar, resealable container or a bowl.
- Combine Ingredients for Oats: In an 8 oz. mason jar, resealable container or a bowl. (These 7 oz jars are the ones you actually see in the photos and are currently our favorite ones) add the oats, chia seeds, milk, sweetener and cinnamon and mix until combined. Top with sliced bananas. Microwave on high for 1 minute.
- Yogurt Layer: In a separate bowl, mix together the yogurt and maple syrup until combined. Spread evenly over the oats.
- Chill: Place the bowl / jar / ramekin in the fridge for 4 hours or overnight.
- Enjoy cool or warm-up: Remove from the fridge, heat the glass jar up in the microwave for a hot breakfast or enjoy your overnight oats cold straight from the fridge. Top with sliced bananas, sprinkle with a little bit of cinnamon and enjoy. You can also add more milk and any fun toppings of your choice.
Overnight Oat Variations:
- Sweetener: use your preferred liquid sweetener. Pure maple syrup, Lakanto sugar-free maple syrup, yacon syrup, coconut nectar syrup, agave or honey if not vegan.
- Yogurt – You can add a combination of plant based milk and vegan yogurt to make your oats extra creamy .
- Nut butter: use any nut butter or seed butter you like. Almond butter, peanut butter or cashew butter.
- Fruit: add strawberries, blueberries, raspberries or chopped apples
- Add-ins: you can add sunflower seeds, shredded coconut or chopped nuts or mini dairy-free chocolate chips.
Storage and meal prep:
Overnight oats are perfect for meal prep! You can make 5-7 jars and enjoy one throughout the week!
Double or triple the batch and divide into separate mason jars or resealable containers.
How long can you keep overnight oats?
Overnight oats without fruit should last int he fridge for up to 7 days. The ones with fruit will be best up to 4 days.
Do you eat overnight oats cold or hot?
You can enjoy overnight oats both ways. Enjoy them straight from the fridge with more toppings or heat them up in the microwave in a heat-safe bowl or container (or you can even heat them up in a pot over the stove).
Flavor options for overnight oats:
Strawberry Overnight Oats, Carrot Cake Overnight Oats or for more Overnight Oatmeal options – be sure to check this post out with 9 fun flavors!
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These Banana Overnight Oats are easy to make with hearty oats, bananas and a creamy topping. It's the perfect healthy make-ahead breakfast for busy mornings and only needs a few minutes of prep time! Gluten-free, refined sugar-free, vegan and a healthy and satisfying breakfast everyone will love!
- ½ cup old fashioned rolled oats , certified gluten-free as needed (like Bob's Red Mill)
- ½ cup unsweetened almond milk , or milk of choice
- 1 tsp ground chia seeds
- ½ tsp maple syrup , or liquid sweetener of choice, sugar-free as needed
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1-2 tbsps plant-based unflavored or vanilla protein powder , optional for added protein. We like Sprout Living.
- ½ banana sliced
- ½ cup dairy-free greek-style plain yogurt , or regular Greek yogurt for higher protein if not dairy-free)- can also use thicker coconut based yogurt such as Yoggu, Culina, Cocojune or Cocoyo
- ½ tsp maple syrup , or liquid sweetener of choice, sugar-free as needed
- Sliced bananas , optional
- Chopped walnuts / pecans / granola , optional
- Sprinkle of cinnamon , optional
Oats: In a medium ramekin / heat-safe bowl, add the oats, chia seeds, milk, optional protein powder, sweetener and cinnamon and mix until combined. Top with sliced bananas. Microwave on high for 1 minute.
- Yogurt Layer: In a separate bowl, mix together the yogurt and maple syrup until combined. Spread evenly over the oats.
- Chill in the fridge for 4 hours or overnight.
Remove from the fridge, top with sliced bananas, sprinkle with a little bit of cinnamon or chopped nuts and enjoy.
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