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Chocolate Overnight Oats with Strawberries

Easy and healthy recipe for chocolate overnight oats.

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Why it works: Oats and chia work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 65 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. In a jar or small container with a lid, combine the oats, chia seeds and cocoa powder, and stir to mix evenly.

  2. Add the non-fat Greek yogurt, unsweetened almond milk and agave nectar, then stir until no dry cocoa or oat clumps remain.

  3. Cover the jar and refrigerate overnight, for at least 8 hours, so the oats and chia seeds can soften and thicken.

  4. In the morning, stir the oats well, adding a splash of almond milk if they seem too thick.

  5. Top with the hulled and sliced large strawberries just before eating, and serve cold.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Oats + chiatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chia + agavetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Almond + chiatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Oats + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Almond + agavetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together198 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oats, yogurt, milk, cocoa powder, chia, agave):

  1. Flaxseedbetter flavor fit
  2. Almondthe original
  3. Cashew nutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against oats, yogurt, milk, cocoa powder, chia, agave. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).