Uncooked porridge oats

Yes thank you Jane I think I have to work on the consistency a bit more, it was a bit thick. I think one more spoonful of yoghurt would have made it perfect. ?

Did you enjoy it nankate?

Well I have mixed up my breakfast oats for tomorrow based on a combination of your suggestions. Roll on breakfast time. ?

Oats/oat bran soaked for 5 minutes in the morning. Add whatever fruit is to hand plus seeds/linseed. Usually top with Greek yogurt but I bought Roddas Crème fraiche from Waitrose last week. It's divine. 30% fat but still a lot less than double cream so in my book, healthy!

The Alpro Go On Soya Yoghurts (high in protein) work well with cold oats. I add: grated pear and cardamon, grated apple and cinnamon, mixed frozen berries, dried mango, chopped nectarine. Plus a drop of rice milk or almond milk if the mixture looks a bit dry. The hardest thing for me is concocting them last thing at night, as I'm far more of a morning person. Glad others just mix & eat - I was a bit worried the oats would be swelling in my stomach!
Enjoy!

I love porridge but not raw soggy oats. We just have jumbo oats mixed with sultanas and mixed broken nuts, plus milk.
Absolutely fine.

My choice of oats for my Oat, fruit and vanilla breakfast are
Tesco (own) Organic jumbo oats.

I do a vegan version overnight in the fridge with almond milk and chai seeds, then stir in strawberries, blueberries, banana whatever in the morning, top with Alpro non dairy yoghurt ( the coconut one is yum), its lovely and cold on a hot summer morning.

I just prefer the texture of Greek Yoghurt Baggs. I get Yeo Valley which, shock horror, is 9% fat. It also contains live cultures which are supposed to be beneficial to one’s biome.
It’s just personal preference.

Does the kind of yogurt matter? Does Greek yogurt work as well as runnier kinds?

Isn't the result just like cold porridge? After all, all the normal heated porridge making technique does is speed up the soaking up of liquid.

I'm a bit scared of Googling "overnight oats" purpledaffodil .....

I love them soaked overnight in apple juice, with a mixture of dried fruit added - cranberries, raisins, cherries, prunes (if you like them - I do!), figs, apricots etc. Alternatively, stir in fresh chopped fruit in the morning, if you want to avoid the added sugar in the dried fruit.

I don’t bother soaking overnight either.
I just put the milk on the oats as soon as I get up and by the time I’ve had a cup of tea, caught up with FB and GN, put the washing on, had a shower and generally fiddled on, they are soft enough to eat.
Sprinkled with mixed seeds & nuts, any soft fruit that’s in the fridge, and a stewed prune or apricot or two.
Then topped with unsweetened, full-fat Greek yoghurt.
None of that low-fat silliness in this house

I think

Raw, uncooked oats are the basis for many mueslis.

never come accross that Tanith and I've lived in Scotland for all my 64 years.Usually we cook them in water with added salt and serve with milk or cream in a seperate bowl for dunking .I had a Welsh aunt who introduced suger to our porridge .If you are on a diet oats cooked in water is as tasty as oats cooked in milk and dont serve with milk or sugar just some berries .Thats my normal breakfast and has been for years .

I just pour milk over oats (as pensionpat describes) and eat them with sugar. Maybe a banana but I'm usually in too much of a hurry.

It helps if you have good quality, soft oats, not the hard, whole grain kind. Those you do have to soak overnight.

What brilliant ideas. I had been wondering how to use up left over oats from winter porridge. Thanks everyone.

Thanks All what a delicious mix of yummy recipes I will start preparing my new regime tonight. ?

I don't bother soaking overnight. I pour dry oats into a bowl, add just enough milk to moisten, grate an apple for more moisture, then add any fruit that I have, topping with a sliced banana. Yummy.

I use frozen fruit too, but soak the oats in roasted, unsweetened almond milk. In the morning, I top it with thick, fat free Greek yoghurt. Delicious.

I do the same as ginny and layer oats, fruit and yoghurt but use frozen mixed berries and find these defrost by the morning and just give the mix a wee stir and it's very tasty. I occasionally drizzle some cream (single of course!) on the top when I need a boost to get going in the morning.

I often have a bowl with Asda fruit and nut muesli, some jumbo oats, about 3 spoons of Greek yoghurt. Topped with chopped strawberries, grapes and Apple. I just leave it an hour or so, delicious and filling and fairly healthy. The yoghurt is enough, no milk or juicce needed.

I had a recipe for Bircher muesli from the chef in a Swiss restaurant. It used ground hazelnuts and grated apple and raisins mixed with oats and yoghurt and left in the fridge overnight to absorb the liquid. Have been eating this (minus the grated apple) for many years now. You may be surprised by the amount of liquid the oats can absorb.

There are many ways to make bircher muesli or overnight oats.

The key is to have the portion of oats, mix with yogurt or apple juice. Add fruits such as grated apple, sultanas, chopped banana or fresh or frozen berries
www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/how-make-overnight-oats