Chocolate Coconut Overnight Oats
Chocolate Coconut Overnight Oats are for those who are short on time, but high on healthy appetite and want a filling, nutritious meal. This is creamy, chocolatey and filled with nutritious chia seeds, oats and Greek yogurt.
I'm a pretty boring breakfast eater. I need my whole wheat bread! It's just too much hassle to think of something to eat when you're practically a hungry zombie. I'm also not one of those who can suffice with a smoothie and call it breakfast. That's more of an in-between-snack, in my opinion. So we need filling breakfasts such as bread, porridge or oatmeal.
And sometimes we want chocolate.
Let me help you with that. Chocolate Coconut Overnight Oats are filling, a healthy dose of chocolate and has this creamy coconut consistency. You can top it with your choice of berries or fruit, nuts or chocolate. However, I want things to just - get in my belly - in the morning, so I'm eating it as is.
Sometimes we want to eat healthy, filling meals but it needs to be done in a jiffy. What do we do? We do the cooking the day before! Although it's not much of cooking really, just mixing the ingredients and let it sit.
Amazing, right?
Chocolate Coconut Overnight Oats
This recipe is adapted from Wholefully, she has made 8 amazing overnight oats I have yet to try. I made the chocolate coconut overnight oats, because hello, it's chocolate! I made a few alterations, and this is what I came up with.
Mix - cover - chill - eat.
That's basically what you need to do. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl, cover it with a lid and let it rest in the refrigerator overnight. If you'll make a habit out of making overnight oats, you might benefit of a overnight bowl with lid
but if not, a regular plastic bowl with lid will do. You can eat it after 2 hours, better after 4 and best overnight. So if you can manage to wait, wait.
The chia seeds
help thicken the oats, so don't leave it out. If you do, you might need to reduce the liquid a bit. You can also thicken using ground flax seeds
. And why shouldn't you add these ingredients? They are so healthy and you won't really notice they are there.
And if you don't know what to use the rest of your chia seeds - here's my tips. All these are amazing for breakfast. Especially if you're a light morning eater, I'd recommend the tropical mango pineapple smoothie.
If you're ready for something more indulgent but with some of the same flavors, go for these vanilla coconut cupcakes with chocolate orange buttercream.
Eat more chia:
- Protein Chocolate Chia Pudding
- Tropical Mango Pineapple Smoothie
- Whole Wheat Bread Rolls
- Whole Wheat Banana Pancakes
- Green Smoothie with Avocado and Grapes
- Healthy Breakfast Pumpkin Soufflé
- 6 Energy Bites
What's your breakfast fix?
I'd love to hear your thoughts, either in the comment section below, or tag me @thegingerwithspice on Instagram. And don't forget to Pin it for later!
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Chocolate Coconut Overnight Oats
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 2 1x
- Diet: GlutenFreeDiet
Description
Chocolate Coconut Overnight Oats are for those who are short on time, but high on healthy appetite and want a filling, nutritious meal.
Ingredients
- 3 heaping tablespoon Greek yogurt
- 4 oz rolled oats, 50g. Norwegian: Lettkokte Havregryn
- 2/2 cup full-fat coconut milk (160ml)
- 1 tbsp chia seeds*
- 1 tsp ground flax seeds, optional
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- pinch salt
- 2 tbsp maple syrup, optional
- 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp unsweetened shredded coconut
Instructions
- Whisk together. Spoon into a jar with lid. Refrigerate at least 4 hours, preferably overnight**
- Serve, either as is or with coconut flakes, nuts and chopped chocolate.
Notes
* Do not skip chia seeds and/or flax seeds, they help thicken the oatmeal. They are also very healthy. If you do however skip them, reduce amount of liquid by a few tbsp.
** It gets creamier the longer you wait. You can however eat it after 2 hours, better after 4, but best overnight
Adapted from: Wholefully
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Inactive Time: 0 hours
- Cook Time: 0 hours
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 grams
- Calories: 475
- Sugar: 14
- Sodium: 96
- Fat: 32
- Saturated Fat: 25
- Unsaturated Fat: 5
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 42
- Fiber: 7
- Protein: 10
- Cholesterol: 1
That looks delicious. I love a healthy breakfast that tastes decadent. Esp if it's all ready from the night before.
Thank you, Juli! And I agree with you, just take it out of the fridge and eat is the best.
Chocolate makes everything so much better. Even this oats. Looks damn delicious!
I agree! Thank you so much
This looks so tasty and so easy! I'm a huge fan of overnight oats- I can't wait to try your recipe!
I know, I was surprised at how easy it really was. I hope you'll like it!
O my, I am so hungry just by looking at this. Really need one right now
That's the downside of having to wait for 8 hours to eat it! Thank you so much, Zuzana.
I essentially live on Overnight Oats and am always looking for fun new flavors. Can’t wait to try this one.
Thank you, hope you'll like it!
I love how you kind of combined two things into one here! Chia pudding and overnight oats! I definitely need to try this
Thank you so much! Hope you'll like it.
Great breakfast idea and who doesn’t like chocolate.
Thanks! There are a few people, but they simply cannot be trusted.
I love oats in the morning for breakfast. This is perfect because it is healthy and sounds delicious, easy to prepare at night, put in fridge overnight and then Boom! breakfast in the morning. Thanks for this recipe.
Yes, it's so simple! Thank you for stopping by
This is my kind of breakfast!! Love both chia and oats! Great idea to combine them!
Thank you so much, Camila!