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Chocolate Overnight Oats & Berries

Wake up to this delicious berry-full bowl of chocolate overnight oats! Who can say no to chocolate in the morning?

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Why it works: Oats and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 552 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep10 min
Cook8 hr

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 airtight container, stir together the rolled oats, chia seeds, cocoa powder, honey, almond milk and Greek yogurt until no dry cocoa or oat clumps remain.

  2. Cover the jar and refrigerate overnight, about 8 hours, until the oats have softened and thickened.

  3. In the morning, stir the oats well. If they seem too thick, stir in a splash of almond milk.

  4. Spoon the chilled oats into a serving bowl.

  5. Top with the blueberries, sliced strawberries, golden raspberries and blackberries.

  6. Serve cold. Keep any leftovers refrigerated and eat within 2 days.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Yogurt + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Milk + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,333 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chia

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

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Chiathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oats, yogurt, almond, milk, cocoa powder, honey. 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).