Chai Spiced Overnight Oats
Make ahead chai overnight oats: chai steeped milk over rolled oats with yogurt, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger and sultanas.
Chai spiced overnight oats are the make ahead breakfast to set up the night before. A bag of Twinings Dark Chai is steeped into warm milk, then poured over rolled oats with yogurt, a little brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger and sultanas. Sealed in a jar overnight, it swells into a creamy, gently spiced morning pot with no cooking at all.
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Eat it straight from the jar, or tip it into a bowl with sliced banana and a few toasted flaked almonds for crunch. It keeps for two days, so it is worth making a couple at once.
You'll need
- 1 Twinings Dark Chai tea bag
- 200ml whole milk
- 50g rolled porridge oats (not jumbo, not steel cut)
- 2 tablespoons of natural full fat yogurt
- 1 teaspoon of soft light brown sugar
- A generous pinch of ground cinnamon (about a third of a teaspoon)
- A small pinch of ground ginger (about a quarter teaspoon)
- 1 tablespoon of sultanas
- 1 clean glass jar with a tight fitting lid (about 350ml capacity)
- To serve: half a fresh banana sliced into rounds, a small handful of toasted flaked almonds (optional)
Method
- Pour the milk into a small saucepan and warm it over medium low heat until it just steams, around 70C, not boiling.
- Off the heat, drop in the chai bag and put the lid on.
- Steep for six minutes off the heat; this keeps the milk from scorching and gives a rounder chai flavour.
- Lift the bag out without pressing it, as pressing forces out tannin and makes the oats taste drying.
- Let the chai milk cool for ten minutes, until just warm.
- Put the oats, yogurt, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger and sultanas into the jar.
- Pour the warm chai milk over and stir well to mix the yogurt and spices through evenly.
- Seal and refrigerate for eight hours, or overnight.
- In the morning, stir once; the oats will have swelled into a creamy, spiced porridge.
- Tip: top with sliced banana and toasted flaked almonds for crunch, and make two jars at once, as it keeps two days.
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Brewed with: Twinings Dark Chai, 40 Tea Bags 80g
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