I love eating a hearty, healthy breakfast—it’s the perfect way to start out each and every day. I really love adding overnight oats to my breakfast routine because of how simple and easy they are to make. Oatmeal really fills you up and sticks with you for the entire morning, which is great if you have a busy schedule like I do and don’t have time to stop to eat again until lunch. Steel cut oats are really healthy for you but take forever to cook, which is why overnight oats are so awesome. No cooking needed and they’re ready for you to eat right when you wake up!
I was first inspired to make overnight oats by Lindsay at Running the Windy City. I followed her basic recipe for overnight oats for a long time, making tiny tweaks to spices or playing around with flavored yogurt. Lately I’ve been trying to get more creative with my recipes and had one of those “aha” moments where I created this cherry almond overnight oats recipe in my mind.
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I used dried tart cherries for my recipe because tart cherries are one of those healthy superfoods you often hear about. Tart cherries have been shown to reduce inflammation and can help you recover more quickly from hard workouts. They also have all of the great, healthy stuff in regular, sweet cherries like vitamins and fiber. I loved using dried tart cherries in this recipe because they soften up a bit in the overnight oat mixture and their flavor really gets mixed into the oatmeal. Yum yum!
Are you ready for the Cherry Almond Overnight Oats recipe yet?
- 1/3 c steel cut oats
- 1/3 c plain yogurt
- 1/3 c tart cherries, chopped
- 1/4 c sliced almonds, chopped
- 1/2 c milk
- 1 tsp ground flax
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1/4 tsp almond extract
- dash of cinnamon (~1/8 tsp)
- Combine all ingredients together. Place in sealed container in refrigerator overnight. Ready to eat in the morning!
- I used soy yogurt and almond milk to make my overnight oats vegan. What kind you would like to use is completely up to you!
Sharing this with Tina and Deborah‘s Meatless Monday linkup!
Have you ever tried overnight oats?
What’s your favorite breakfast food?
Are you a tart cherry fan?
Beth this sounds wonderful! I have been embracing overnight oats a little more, and now I think its time I start testing out some flavor combos, this is a definite must! Thanks so much for joining us for meatless monday 🙂 Have a lovely day my friend!
Thank you so much, Tina! Compliments like that always mean a lot coming from awesome blogging buddies like you. Hope you’ve had a lovely week so far!
I need cherries back in my life ASAP to make these… overnight oats are my fave. I used to have them with cherries, pistachios and chocolate chips for a while 🙂
That sounds amazing! Need more ways to get pistachios into my life–I’ll have to try that!
I have been in such a cherry mood lately! Picked up a bag of frozen ones to use in smoothies last week aaaand it’s almost gone already. I love overnight oats and love the idea of adding cherries in. Thanks for the recipe!
Cherry smoothies are the best! I’ve been going through tons lately. Think I’m going to invest in the big Costco bag soon. Hope you enjoy the recipe!
I’ve never had overnight oats! This does make me want to try them though 🙂 Thanks for linking up with us for meatless Monday and hope to see you again!
Definitely try them if you’re into oatmeal! They’re a breeze to prepare and are really yummy!
Do you heat this up at all or do you eat it cold?
I ate mine cold because I’m lazy, but you could definitely heat it up!