Oat recipes for breakfast bars & snacks

PommeVerte

hello ive been hearing about overnight oats on several threads, could someone tell me in the simplest way possible how to make this fabled dish, and also if anyone has any simple and easy recipes for hearty filling oaty snacks/breakfast bars for two hungry 5 & 6 year old children with hollow legs! As you can tell, the emphasis is on easy, quick and filling recipes as i'm short on time, and patience and get easily discouraged if a recipe is too difficult/long/has crazy amounts of "1 teaspoon of some weird herb ive never heard of".... 😆😆 merci in advance !

Floss

I make overnight oats this way:

1 tablespoon natural yogurt in a jar or dish
20g oats on top of yogurt
Handful of raspberries or strawberries 
2 tablespoons yogurt
20g oats
2 tablespoons yogurt
Handful of raspberries or strawberries 

Cover & leave overnight in fridge. 

PommeVerte

Floss said:

I make overnight oats this way:

1 tablespoon natural yogurt in a jar or dish
20g oats on top of yogurt
Handful of raspberries or strawberries 
2 tablespoons yogurt
20g oats
2 tablespoons yogurt
Handful of raspberries or strawberries 

Ah nice n simple thankyou ! 

joedenise

I make my overnight oats by putting 40g of oats in a jar, sprinkle of sweetener, almost fill the jar with yoghurt (a small tub or half a large one); top with frozen mixed fruit.  Leave overnight in the fridge.  The juices from the fruit go into the yoghurt.

Before eating I stir everything together so it goes pink.  With young children it's probably easier to tip out into a dish to mix rather than trying to do in a jar!

I find frozen fruit works better than fresh fruit and is also cheaper unless you have access to free fresh fruit, either growing yourself or being given to you by friends/family or foraging.

PommeVerte

I was just about to ask if i could use frozen fruit as fresh is ok for the summmer months but pretty soon strawberries will be out of season. Brilliant thankyou !! Will be trying out over night oats tonight (well tomorrow morning really), but will wait to buy a bag of frozen red fruits as we re moving house next week and ive been slowly clearing the freezer. But will buy a punnet of strawberries which will do us a day or two

PommeVerte

i suppose we could do it with foraged blackberries at the moment too, free activity for the children too.

s_glover

Grated apple also works really well, add some cinammon if you like it.
Sultanas also work well, they absorb some of the water and plump up over night.

Rosa_Damascena

The joy of oat bars - apart from eating them! - is how forgiving recipes are.

Start with melted butter (or the fat of your choice), add as many oats as you please and then just enough syrup to bind. The options above that are endless - add dried fruit, nuts, spices whatever is available before you bind with the syrup. Orange zest adds a lot of flavour, rice pops makes is light and crunchy. 

Then flatten the mixture into a baking tray and bake at 180C for 20 mins or so, but keep an eye on it. You want the oats to bake and the mixture to stiffen but there is nothing tasty about a piece of burnt dried fruit! Let it cool before you slice into bars. I tend to drizzle with melted chocolate before this stage, as chocolate and orange are a v good combination.

Eta: get the kids to help out now and they will be making them on their own as soon as they're old enough to use a hob and oven.

esmy

I've made these a few times - very easy (from Jamie Oliver I think):
100g each of oats, golden syrup, SR flour, dried fruit/nuts, softened butter/marg (butter's better). Mix together by pulsing in a food processor, or you can do it by hand. Spread into a suitable tin lined with baking paper. 180C/Gas 4 for 20 minutes or till lightly browned. Cut whilst warm and allow to cool.

PommeVerte

Thankyou everyone ! Loving the simple recipes !

joedenise

How about some biscuits?  Posted on here several years ago - Twinks Hobnobs:

8oz sr flour
8oz sugar
8oz porridge oats
8oz margarine
1tbsp golden syrup
1tbsp hot water
1/2 tsp bic soda
mix flour, oats and sugar, melt marg, syrup and water in a pan stir in bic soda and add to dry mix, mix well, make smallish balls and put on greased tray and flatten slightly with a fork, 180oc for 15 mins, cool on the tray, you just want them golden in oven not brown

Really easy and makes loads.

Haven't made any for ages, think I might have to make some but it will have to wait until after my holiday as haven't got any syrup in the cupboard and not doing any more shopping until after!