High protein overnight oats (vegan!)
Start your day energized, feeling full and ready to go! These yummy high protein overnight oats combine rolled oats, hemp hearts and chia seeds, plant-based milk and natural peanut butter. They're made without protein powder yet pack in a whopping 27 grams of plant-based protein! This breakfast recipe is vegan, gluten free, and I've shared a low FODMAP option too!
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsweetened soy milk or almond milk if low FODMAP
- ⅓ cup rolled oats gluten free if needed
- 3 tablespoons hemp hearts gluten free if needed
- 1 tablespoon natural peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds whole or ground (learn the benefits of ground chia seed)
- 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup plus more to taste if desired
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ apple diced
Instructions
- In a 500 mL mason jar or bowl, mix together the milk, oats, hemp hearts, peanut butter, chia, maple syrup, vanilla and cinnamon.
- Cover and place in fridge for at least 4 hours or up to 5 days. When ready to serve, add diced apple and sweeten to taste.
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Notes
A few notes!!
I’ve made these oats more fluid than typical overnight oats, more like cereal, because sometimes my usual overnight oats just feel too thick, if that makes sense! You can create a more traditional texture by either increasing the oats to ½ cup or decreasing the soy milk to ⅔ cup or ¾ cup.
This is a hearty, energy-dense meal. Need something for a smaller appetite? Just eat half, you’ll still have almost 14 grams of protein, which is more than enough for smaller, less active bodies.
Need even more fuel? Bump up the oats to ½ cup.