Sea Moss Overnight Oats
Can you put sea moss gel in overnight oats?
Yes, and it is one of the easiest places to start. Two tablespoons of gel per jar thickens the oats overnight and disappears into the texture, so it tastes like oats rather than like seaweed. Make four jars on a Sunday and breakfast is handled through to Thursday.
Key takeaways
- Stir oats, sea moss gel, chia seeds, milk, and honey together in a jar and refrigerate at least four hours overnight. see section
- Make four jars on Sunday and breakfast is handled through Thursday, providing convenient meal-prep solutions.
- The gel serves a dual purpose by thickening the oats and incorporating the nutritious ingredient into a familiar dish.
Make four jars on Sunday and breakfast is handled through Thursday. The gel thickens the oats and slips a serving of sea moss into a meal you were eating anyway.
Ingredients (per jar)
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 2 tablespoons sea moss gel
- 2/3 cup milk of choice
- 1 teaspoon chia seeds
- 1 teaspoon maple syrup or honey
- Fruit for topping — berries, sliced banana, or mango
Method
- Stir the oats, sea moss gel, chia, milk, and sweetener together in a jar.
- Seal and refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight.
- Top with fruit before eating. Keeps 4 days refrigerated.
Flavored gels work especially well here — Strawberry with fresh berries is the house favorite.
Getting the texture right
Both the chia and the gel thicken these oats, which is why the milk quantity matters more here than in a standard overnight oats recipe. Two thirds of a cup of milk to half a cup of oats looks loose when you seal the jar and is correct by morning. If you like them stiff enough to stand a spoon in, keep the milk the same and add a second teaspoon of chia rather than more gel.
Stir properly before it goes in the fridge. Sea moss gel is thicker than milk and sinks if you shake the jar instead of stirring it, leaving a dense layer at the bottom and thin oats above it. Thirty seconds with a spoon is the whole trick.
Four days, and what happens on each
Day one is the loosest and the most oat-forward. By day two the oats have taken up the milk and it eats like a thick porridge, which is the best day. Day three is the same. By day four the fruit you stirred in has started to break down, so top rather than mix if you are making the full batch. Past four days, throw it out; this is a fridge food with dairy or plant milk in it, not a preserve.
Flavoured gel, and one thing to avoid
Flavoured gels earn their place in this recipe more than anywhere else, because the fruit purée is already sweet enough that you can drop the maple syrup entirely. Strawberry with fresh berries, mango with sliced banana.
What does not work is adding citrus directly to a jar with dairy milk in it and leaving it overnight. Lemon or lime will curdle it by morning. If you want that brightness, add it in the bowl at the last minute, or use a plant milk instead.
Batch and freeze
The jars freeze well, which is the trick for a household that eats them two days a week rather than five. Freeze on day one, move a jar to the fridge the night before you want it, and top with fruit fresh. The texture comes back closer than you would expect, because the gel holds the mixture together as it thaws instead of letting the oats weep.
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- Does sea moss have iodine?
Yes. Sea moss, whether the purple African variety we use or the Chondrus crispus sold as Irish moss, is a seaweed, and seaweeds absorb iodine from the water they grow in. That is true of sea moss from any seller, not jus
- How much sea moss gel should you take per day?
A common serving is one to two tablespoons of gel a day, started small. Sea moss is a food, so there is no clinical dose; the ceiling that matters is iodine, which is why more is not better. People on thyroid medication
- How is Yaow Seamoss tested?
Our organic Purple African sea moss is tested at multiple stages, from sourcing through production, for cleanliness, heavy-metal screening, and batch consistency. We do not publish certificates on the site today, we do n
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