Strawberry Overnight Oats

These vegan strawberry overnight oats are easy and great for a cold scrumptious breakfast for spring or summer.  No oven or stovetop is needed and they can be made ahead of time for busy mornings.  

For this overnight oats recipe, I’m adding a little twist to infuse more strawberry flavor.  We’re blending up a ½ cup of fresh or frozen strawberries in the milk for a bolder strawberry flavor in every bite.  Then add a little lemon juice for a little tang and to help preserve some of the pink strawberry colors. For more ways to use frozen berries here's a recipe for overnight oats with frozen fruit.

The strawberry milk turns a beautiful pink color and is absolutely delicious, I could drink the entire container.  Sadly the bright pink milk color does diminish after the oats soak it up, but it’s still super yummy.  Then for even more strawberry flavor, add diced strawberries to the oat mixture or add them the next day when you’re ready to enjoy.

How to Make Overnight Strawberry Oats

1. Blend the strawberries, dairy-free milk, maple syrup, lemon juice, and vanilla extract until smooth.  
2. In a large mouth jar or another small air-tight container, mix the old-fashioned oats, ground flaxseed, ground cinnamon, and a pinch of salt.  
3. Then add the wet ingredients to the dry ones and mix.  Stir in diced strawberries for a more strawberry flavor or add them the next day when you're ready to consume.  

Tips

• Fresh or frozen strawberries work great to make strawberry-flavored milk, so this overnight oats recipe can be made all year long.  No need to thaw when adding the berries to the milk.
• Normally overnight oats without fruit can last about 5 days in air-tight containers in the fridge, but with fresh or frozen fruit, I think they’re best within 2-3 days.  
• The recipe is for just one serving, but it can easily be doubled or tripled.  

Options for Making Strawberry Milk for Multiple Servings

• Option 1:  Blend each individual serving separately (no need to clean the blender in between) then add to each prepared and portioned oat mixture serving.  
• Option 2: Blend all the wet ingredients for all of the servings at one time, you’ll also need to mix all of the oat mixture servings in a large bowl.  Add the blended wet mixture to the oats, stir to combine, and let it sit for about 10 minutes to thicken up.  Give it another stir then portion it out into individual servings or keep it in one big covered bowl in the refrigerator.  

More Vegan Overnight Oat Recipes

• Simple overnight oats
• Overnight oats with frozen fruit
• Chocolate peanut butter overnight oats
• Mango overnight oats
• Pumpkin overnight oats
• Cherry overnight oats
• Cinnamon overnight oats
• Raspberry overnight oats
• Blueberry cheesecake overnight oats

As always, I hope you enjoy this recipe using fresh or frozen strawberries in overnight oats!

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