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title: "Sea Moss Overnight Oats"
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# 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.

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

1. Stir the oats, sea moss gel, chia, milk, and sweetener together in a jar.
2. Seal and refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight.
3. Top with fruit before eating. Keeps 4 days refrigerated.

Flavored gels work especially well here — [Strawberry](/product/16-oz-strawberry-gel/) 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.