Chocolate Overnight Oats with Almond Butter

Start your day with chocolate but make it with superfoods! This healthy chocolate overnight oats recipe with almond butter is made with chia seeds and cacao. This overnight oats recipe also won’t spike your blood sugar due to the healthy fats! Read more about the benefits of cacao and chia, and why overnight oats may be better than cooked oats!

Superfood Ingredients in this Chocolate Overnight Oats Recipe

This recipe includes the superfoods cacao and chia seeds. What makes something a “superfood”? “Super” means that gram for gram they contain more nutrients and minerals than your average food. 

• Cacao – This recipe calls for raw organic cacao powder. All chocolate comes from cacao beans. However, typical cocoa powder is processed and roasted. This destroys the naturally occurring antioxidants and flavonols found in cacao. Here are just a few of the benefits of raw organic cacao:
  • Has more antioxidants than blueberries. Antioxidants absorb free radicals (that come from pollution and toxins in our environment), which cause cell and tissue damage and can lead to diseases such as cancer.
  • Is the highest plant-based source of iron (which can be hard to get if you eat a heavy plant-based diets). The iron in cacao is non-heme so you’ll want to throw a fruit rich in vitamin C (such as blueberries!) to increase absorption.
  • Is one of the highest plant-based sources of magnesium. Many people tend to be deficient in magnesium which is important for a healthy heart, and helps turn glucose into energy.

• Chia seeds – These super seeds are one of the highest sources of Omega 3 Essential Fatty Acids on the planet, with almost 60% Omega 3 content. It’s also rich in Omega 6 and 9, two other healthy fatty acids. Chia seeds are a wonder plant-based alternative to seafood and fish oil. In fact, chia seed oil gram for gram contains 28 times the Omega 3 found in salmon. They are also 20% protein and are rich in fiber.

The Benefits of Eating Overnight Oats

Overnight oats are raw oats soaked overnight and may be better for you than a typical cooked bowl of oats!

• Raw oats are good source of resistant starch, which is not digested in the upper digestive tract, so it may act as a prebiotic in the body, thus boosting the population of the good bacteria and healing the gut.
• Resistant starch has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity.
• Eating the oats “raw” means they are less processed so are higher in nutrients such as copper, zinc, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, vitamins, fibre, manganese and other such minerals.

Further, these chocolate overnight oats are combined with healthy fat from the almond butter and chia seeds to keep your blood sugar from spiking.

How to Make Chocolate Overnight Oats

• This almond butter overnight oats recipe also couldn’t be easier to make – you just mix the dry ingredients, mix the the wet ingredients, combine and let them sit overnight!
• Overnight oats will stay in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to 5 days (I like to store in mason jars). They may thicken a bit after a few days so add a couple of tablespoons of almond milk if needed.
• If desired, you can also warm these up.
• If you want to add some additional protein, I would recommend 2 tablespoons of chocolate protein, but you may want to reduce the maple syrup if the protein contains a sweetener like stevia. Also, you will need to add about another 1/4 cup of liquid.
• Top with berries, additional almonds and/or non-dairy yogurt!  

I hope you love this easy, delicious chocolate almond butter overnight oats recipe! If you make them, please leave me a note!

Other Breakfast Recipes You May Like

• Pumpkin Spice Overnight Oats
• Cherry Chia Seed Pudding and Yogurt Parfait

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