Peanut Butter Banana Overnight Oats with Yogurt

Ingredients

Scroll down to the peanut butter banana overnight oats with yogurt recipe card for the amounts of each ingredient, but here's a quick description of what's in this recipe.

• Greek yogurt: Adds creaminess, protein, and helps hydrate oats. Use plain, vanilla or fruit flavored.
• Old fashioned oats: Use old fashioned/rolled oats or steel cut oats. Quick oats would work, but they might get mushy since they're chopped up smaller.
• Peanut butter: Adds protein, satiety, and delicious flavor. Use creamy peanut butter or chunky. Or another type of nut butter.
• Chia seeds: Adds a fun texture to your peanut butter banana overnight oats and some fiber. You can skip them if you want, though.
• Vanilla extract: Adds a slight vanilla taste and what feels like sweetness.s
• Cinnamon: A dash of cinnamon adds some flavor, this is optional too.
• Banana: Add your favorite ripeness of banana for added flavor and sweetness. A riper banana will sweeten up your overnight oats more than one that needs to be sliced.
• Milk: You'll need some liquid to hydrate the oats, I like adding milk for creaminess, flavor, and added protein. You could use water in these peanut butter banana overnight oats with yogurt.

Instructions

Scroll down to the peanut butter banana overnight oats with yogurt recipe card for more detailed instructions. Here's a quick overview + photos to see how to make this recipe in general.

1. Add plain Greek yogurt, old fashioned oats, peanut butter, chia seeds, and vanilla extract to a bowl or mason jar with a lid.

Layer in yogurt first if you want to skip stirring your peanut butter banana overnight oats with yogurt before refrigerating.

2. Sprinkle cinnamon over your overnight oats ingredients, slice up banana and add to jar, then cover with milk.

3. Remove your peanut butter banana overnight oats with yogurt from the fridge prior to eating, heat it up or eat cold depending on preference. 

Storage/Reheating Tips

You can store these overnight oats in the refrigerator in an airtight container for about a week. Eat peanut butter banana overnight oats with yogurt cold or warm up in the microwave (just remove the lid if it's metal.

Substitutions/Tips

• Use your favorite type of milk, cows milk or dairy free option, and as much as you'd like.
• You don't have to stir your oats either (just add yogurt first, then oats and other toppings. Make sure oats are submerged in the liquid so they can hydrate), you can stir it right before eating in the AM.
• Substitute the peanut butter for your favorite nut butter: sunflower butter (for nut allergies), almond butter, cashew butter, etc.
• Use a light weight jar if you're taking it to work. It'll be just as easy but not as heavy.
• Adjust the amounts of each ingredient to your preference
• Store your overnight oats in the fridge for up to about a week, that means you can make extra for more breakfasts.
• Other great add-ins: honey, maple syrup, sugar, other fruit like berries or apple, flax seeds, other seeds, chocolate chips, chocolate protein powder, or vanilla protein powder in peanut butter banana overnight oats with yogurt.

Other good overnight oats recipes

• Overnight Oats with Yogurt
• Apple Cinnamon Overnight Oats
• Apple Pie Overnight Oats

What to do with leftover ingredients

When you're cooking for one, you often have leftover produce, cans of whatever ingredient, etc. Here are a couple ideas on how to use up the leftover ingredients. It'll help you save money by wasting fewer ingredients.

• Oats: Overnight Oats with Yogurt, Single Serving Oatmeal, Single Serving Apple Crumble Tart, Single Serving Oatmeal Cookie
• Peanut butter: PB Caramel Sauce, Peanut Butter Banana Chia Pudding, PB Greek Yogurt Dip
• Banana: Mixed Berry Smoothie with Granola, Single Serve Banana Bread.
• Greek yogurt: Lentil Stroganoff, Curry Pumpkin Soup & Cheesy Garlic Mashed Potatoes

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