Overnight Oats with Pear Slices
My brother Greg and his wife Janine sent lovely holiday fruit boxes this year. Delivered on the coldest day of the year, my apples and pears unfortunately froze solid after a frazzled UPS delivery person left the box on my downstairs neighbor’s disused basement steps. Greg got a refund and kindly sent another box, but it turns out that frozen pears are still pretty good for cooking.
So what to do with a plethora of pears? I adapted this recipe from the Mayo Clinic’s diet program. Where their recipe called for rolled oats, I used steel-cut oats because I happened to have them on hand. The steel-cut variety are a little chewy without cooking but still good. I also substituted Kite Hill’s amazingly good dairy-free almond-milk Greek yogurt. (Most almond-milk yogurt tastes like Play Dough to me. Bleh.) After soaking overnight, the pears lend a delicate flavor to the oats.
Overnight Oats with Pear Slices, Berries, and Plant-Based Yogurt
Ingredients
- 2 cups rolled oats or steel-cut oats (will be chewier)
- 2 cups milk or water
- 1 pear, sliced or shredded
- 1.5 tsp nutmeg, cinnamon, and/or pumpkin pie spice mix
- 2 cups nonfat plain Greek yogurt or plant-based yogurt
- 2 cups fresh or frozen berries
- walnuts, almonds, and/or sesame seeds for topping
Instructions
- Place oats into a bowl or container. Add the milk, pear, spices, and yogurt. Stir to combine. Cover and place in the fridge overnight. I use a large sealable plastic container that holds 4 servings, ladle out a serving at a time, and then heat in microwave.
- Overnight oats will keep up to 5 days in fridge in airtight containers.
