Cherry overnight oats using either frozen or fresh cherries and cherry jam are perfect if you love cherries as much as I do! Prep them on Sunday and you'll have sweet and delicious breakfasts for the week that you can grab and go.
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While I pitted and sliced the cherries fresh for these photos (because I love you guys!), I usually make these with frozen cherries! No pitting necessary, cheaper, available all year round and less messy, for sure.
These cherry overnight oats are a variation on our basic dairy-free overnight oats recipe!
🧄 Very useful ingredient notes
- Cherries - Fresh, pitted sweet cherries. In my opinion, frozen cherries are even better for this recipe, though. They're already pitted, which saves you time. And, when the cherry juice thaws, it is so amazingly delicious! It flavors the whole bowl of oats with cherry goodness. They're also less expensive than fresh and available year-round. I buy frozen cherries at Trader Joe's, Costco, Whole Foods or HEB.
- Cherry jam - Instead of sugar or maple syrup, we're going for that extra cherry flavor by using a bit of cherry jam to sweeten our oats.
- Rolled oats - I recommend old-fashioned for this recipe. Quick get a little too mushy overnight and steel cut (even quick-cooking) don't soften enough without heat.
- Ground flax - Flaxseed thickens the oatmeal.
- Plant-based yogurt - Makes it more creamy and thick.
📋 Substitutions and variations
Here are some suitable substitution options for the ingredients:
- Flax - use chia seeds instead of ground flaxseed. You can skip them, but your oats will be a thinner consistency.
- WFPBNO - make this whole food plant based no oil by using plant-based milk, yogurt and jam with no added oil or refined sugar.
- SOS-free - make this salt-, sugar- and oil-free by using a plant-based milk, yogurt and jam with no added salt, sugar or oil.
Here are some variation ideas for these cherry overnight oats:
- Cherry Almond - add sliced or chopped almonds and a drop of almond extract to the oats
- Cherry Chocolate - add vegan chocolate chips or cocoa powder
- Black Forest - add a tablespoon of cocoa powder to the oats, top with extra vanilla yogurt for your cream layer and then finish with a combination of maraschino cherries, sweet and sour cherries and shaved chocolate for a black forest cake overnight oats recipe
- Cherry Berry - add fresh or frozen mixed cherry berry blend for a cherry berry overnight oats. Cherry berry hot oatmeal porridge is delicious also.
🔪 Instructions
Step-by-step instructions for how to make cherry overnight oats.
- Step 1: Add rolled oats to a pint-size mason jar or container that holds at least 2 cups.
- Step 2: Pour in plant-based milk.
- Step 3: Add ground flaxseed (or chia seeds) to jar.
- Step 4: Add plant-based yogurt to jar.
- Step 5: Add cherry jam to jar and stir everything together.
- Step 6: It will look like this when you've combined all your ingredients.
- Step 7: Place fresh or frozen pitted cherries on top of oats. Place jar in refrigerator overnight or at least 2 hours.
- Step 8: When you're ready to eat them, pull it out of the fridge and eat cold or warm up in microwave for 30-60 seconds.
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📖 Recipe
Cherry Overnight Oats (frozen or fresh cherries)
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- ½ cup plant-based milk almond milk, soy milk, oat milk, etc.
- 2 tablespoons plant-based yogurt cashew yogurt, soy yogurt, coconut yogurt, etc.
- 1 teaspoon ground flaxseed or chia seeds
- 1 tablespoon cherry jam preserves or jelly
- 1 cup cherries pitted (fresh or frozen)
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a glass jar, bowl or container that will hold at least 12 and up to 16 ounces (this allows space for the oats and any toppings you add later). Stir everything together.½ cup old-fashioned rolled oats, ½ cup plant-based milk, 2 tablespoons plant-based yogurt, 1 teaspoon ground flaxseed, 1 tablespoon cherry jam
- Add pitted cherries to jar on top of oats now or when you are ready to eat it.1 cup cherries
- Place a lid or cover on the container. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or overnight.
- Eat cold or microwave for 30-60 seconds to warm up. Prepared overnight oats will stay good stored in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
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