Go Back
pumpkin spice overnight steel cut oats

Pumpkin Spice Overnight Steel Cut Oats

DID YOU KNOW OVERNIGHT STEEL CUT OATS IS A THING? THEY SURE ARE, AND THIS RECIPE IS PERFECT FOR FALL!
Print Recipe Pin Recipe
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Grain
  • 1 oz steel cut oats
Fruit
  • 3 oz banana
  • 3 oz canned pumpkin
  • if you'd like this recipe more sweet, try a ratio of 4:2 banana to pumpkin.
Protein
  • 4 oz almond yogurt
  • 1 oz walnuts
Extras
  • 1/2 tsp pumpkin spice (or more, per your taste) ~ if you don’t have pumpkin spice, you can just mix some cinnamon and nutmeg and that would work.
  • pinch salt
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Method
 

  1. First, mash the banana well and mix with the pumpkin.
  2. Next, to the banana/pumpkin mixture, add the oats, yogurt, pumpkin spice, salt, water, and vanilla and mix well. Leave this in the fridge overnight to set (ideally make this at lunch time for the next morning, so it has at least 10 hours to sit)
  3. Lastly, assemble the pumpkin spice overnight steel cut oats by topping it with the walnuts and a sprinkle of pumpkin spice.

Notes

For those counting, this recipe equals: 1 grain, 1 protein, 1 fruit.
 
Quick tips for this recipe: 
  1. Yes you can use rolled oats instead of steel cut oats. They will soak up the same and be delicious!
  2. If you don’t have pumpkin spice, just adjust with cinnamon and nutmeg and you’ll be fine!
  3. These steel cut oats will still have a little bite to them. Make sure you give them ample time to soak by making it at lunchtime or so the day before you intend on eating them.