Overnight Banoffee Oats

Ooh! you’re going to love this morning breakfast delight! Especially if you like oats, bananas and caramel, or Banoffee Pie (in my dreams). It’s my latest overnight oats experiment that I would happily hibernate with for the rest of winter.

When I say caramel then I have an unusual ingredient that I have used to get the caramel hit – Werther’s Original sugar-free butter candy. I tried this because so many of you say it’s hard to come across an inexpensive sugar-free caramel syrup when you just want a drizzle or two every now and again. My take was that if you smashed these little sweeties/candies and left them to soak in your oat mixture they will dissolve into a caramel syrup – and bingo! they did.

Now I have no idea if these are available worldwide but I guess they are not just available in the UK and if you can’t find them then use another caramel sugar-free candy instead or use sugar-free syrup (I like the Da Vinci ones and Sweet Freedom syrup too).

The recipes makes two WLS portions but non-wls eaters may well manage both.

 

OVERNIGHT BANOFFEE OATS

Ingredients

METRIC/US

1  large banana

35 g/4 tbsp porridge oats

150 g/2/3 cup fat-free plain or banana yogurt 

½ tsp vanilla or salted caramel essence

4 Werther’s Original sugar-free butter candy sweets/candies

 

Method

1.  Mash three-quarters of the banana and reserve the remainder for later (wrap tightly in cling film or  slice and dip in lemon juice and save in the refrigerator).
2.  Mix the oats with the mashed banana, three-quarters of the yogurt and essence, mixing well. Reserve the yogurt in the refrigerator.
3.  Smash the candies in a small bag with a heavy rolling pin or hammer – reserve some of the larger pieces, about one-quarter, for sprinkling over the finished oats and set aside for later.
4.  Layer half of the oats in 2 small serving glasses, top with an equal quantity of the crushed candies then top with the remaining oat mixture. Cover and leave to soak overnight in the refrigerator.
5.  The next day, un-cover. Top with the sliced reserved banana and the reserved yogurt. Sprinkle with the remaining crushed candy to serve.

 

MAKES 2

WLS PORTION: 1

V suitable for Vegetarians

 

CALORIES PER WLS PORTION: 183

PROTEIN: 10.4g

CARBOHYDRATE: 34.6g

FAT: 2.1g

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