How to Make Overnight Oatmeal: Peanut Butter, Banana and Chocolate Overnight Oats

In this video Aviva Goldfarb shows you how to make overnight oatmeal with chocolate, peanut butter and banana (no added sugar). Making overnight oats lets you grab a healthy, energizing breakfast even if you have no time to cook. RECIPE: http://bit.ly/2pj9zPE For more quick and healthy recipes: http://www.thescramble.com/ Aviva Goldfarb cookbooks: http://bit.ly/2m5cCd9 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos like this one:    / sixoclockscramble   Check us out on social media! Facebook:   / thesixoclockscramble   Twitter:   / thescramble   Pinterest:   / thescramble   Instagram:   / avivagoldfarb   Hi, I’m Aviva Goldfarb with the Six O’Clock Scramble, and I’m going to show you one of my favorite quick and healthy breakfasts. Now this is an overnight oatmeal with a peanut butter and chocolate and banana flavor, which are some great flavors, but the amazing thing is it doesn’t have any added sugar, but it still tastes really sweet and really good. And this is a great thing to make like if I have an early class at the gym or an early meeting, you make it the night before and you can just grab it in the morning and eat it either warm or cold or room temperature or however you like it. I actually just grab it and eat it cold. You can use either steel cut oats or regular rolled oats. The great thing about this—it’s sugar free, it can be dairy free, it can be gluten free, so this can really work for your diet, no matter what it is. So we are going to combine in a jar—it has to be at least a 16-ounce jar—half a cup of rolled oats. These are organic rolled oats. Or you can do a quarter cup of steel cut oats, which have a different texture. I really like that texture; it's a little bit more chewy. But they’re going to cook—you don’t even need to cook it; they’re going to cook overnight just by sitting together. And then we are going to combine chia seeds—this is not essential, but these are really healthy, and they help thicken it a little bit. So a teaspoon of chia seeds. And then, an eighth of a teaspoon of cinnamon, which is another super healthy ingredient. This is really going to energize you for the day. And a little pinch of salt just helps bring out the other flavors, but you don’t have to add that if you’re really trying to keep your salt down. And—I always forget, no matter what I do, it always seems like I forget something, but I found it. So a teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa powder. Unsweetened cocoa powder is key here. This is going to give it a really chocolatey taste. But then, we are going to add one of my very favorite ingredients. These are cocoa nibs. If you haven’t tried cocoa nibs, they’re so great. They’re unsweetened pieces of cocoa beans. On their own they’re a little bit bitter, but if you mix them in other foods, it just makes everything taste chocolatey. They’ve got this great crunchy, chewy texture. So we’re going to add some of those. And then, we are going to add a tablespoon of peanut butter, or you could use almond butter. And this recipe you can really customize to your own liking. You can play around with it, give it different flavors. This is just one that I like, and a lot of my friends have really liked it. So, a tablespoon of peanut butter. Again, I use unsweetened, natural peanut butter, but you can use whatever you like, of course. That’s the great thing about recipes and cooking is you can really make things to your own specifications, the way you like them, what you have in your house. So then we are going to add half of a banana mashed up. So I have a banana here—it has to be a pretty ripe banana—and I’m just going to mash it up a little bit right in the banana skin. Is that the word for it? And I’m going to mash it up pretty well there. I’m probably making a scary mashing face right now. And then the other half, I slice, and that gives it a little bit more texture, but if you just want it a little more smooth, you can just mash the whole thing. So this is going to be our natural sweetener—the banana is. And bananas give you a lot of energy, and they’ve got fiber, so much better for you than added sugars. Let’s see—I think I got everything in there, except our liquid. So for the liquid, you can use either regular milk, I tend to use unsweetened almond milk, you can use soy milk, you can use whatever you like to use, depending on your diet, again. I’m going to mix that in. I have one cup of the milk, of whatever milk you use. And then you’re just going to mix this up a little bit. And you can even shake it up, it’s kind of fun. So that took two minutes or something to put it all together. You can give it a shake, and you stick it in the refrigerator overnight.