Convenient and easy to make, these fresh strawberry overnight oats are a delicious and filling breakfast. Fresh strawberries are tart, sweet and perfect with the creamy oats.

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You'll have a strawberries and cream style overnight oats with all those delicious strawberries mixed in!

These strawberry overnight oats use our vegan basic overnight oats recipe as the base!

🧄 Very useful ingredient notes

ingredients on counter for basic overnight oat recipe, including: rolled oats, non dairy milk, ground flaxsed, non dairy yogurt and maple syrup

Strawberries - fresh strawberries are sweet, tart and delicious as a topping or mix-in for overnight oats.
Old-fashioned rolled oats - do not use quick oats for this recipe, they turn out mushy. Don't use steel cut, they don't get soft enough to enjoy with this method. You want old-fashioned rolled oatmeal for this method of cooking oats.
Ground flax - Flaxseed thickens the oatmeal slightly.
Plant-based yogurt - amps up the creaminess. I used Forager unsweetened vanilla cashew yogurt here. Vegan yogurts made from cashew, soy, coconut, almond and oat will all work here. If using a sweetened yogurt, you may want to reduce or even omit the added maple syrup.

📋 Substitutions and variations

Here are some suitable substitution options for the ingredients:

Strawberries - use frozen strawberries instead of fresh (add them the night before, so they can thaw overnight).
Maple syrup - use another sweetener like sugar, brown sugar, date syrup, agave nectar or coconut sugar instead. Amp up the strawberry flavor by using strawberry jam, preserves or jelly instead of a plain sweetener. Or, omit the added sweetener altogether.
Flax - use chia seeds instead of ground flaxseed. Or, omit them (it will be less thick if you omit one of these options).

Here are some variation ideas:

Strawberry Kiwi - add diced fresh kiwi with the strawberry
Strawberry Banana - add sliced banana with the strawberry
Matcha Strawberry Overnight Oats - fresh strawberries go really well with matcha
Three Berry - add fresh or frozen mixed berries of strawberry, blueberry and raspberry
Four Berry - add fresh or frozen mixed berries of strawberry, blueberry, raspberry and blackberry

🔪 Instructions

Step-by-step instructions for how to make overnight oats with fresh strawberries.

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 maple syrup (or other preferred sweetener) to jar.

Step 4: Add ground flaxseed (or chia seeds) to jar.

Step 5: Add plant-based yogurt to jar.

Step 6: It will look like this when you've added all your ingredients.

Step 7: Screw on your lid and then shake it all up! Or, use a spoon to mix all the ingredients together. Place jar in refrigerator overnight or at least 2 hours. After mixing the oats, you can add your diced strawberries now, or do it when you eat them.

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. Add your diced fresh strawberries now, if you didn't add them before.

🥡 Make ahead and storage tips

Overnight oats are perfect for meal prep and batch cooking. Make them Sunday night to have breakfast ready to go all week long. Store overnight oats in the refrigerator, combined, for up to 5 days.

For best texture and flavor, mix your strawberries in the day of or eat them within 3 days. If you add your strawberries on top the day you eat them, the plain oats are good for 5 days.

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