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My overnight oats with applesauce and yogurt recipe makes breakfast meal prep a breeze. In the morning, simply grab a spoon and dig into your delicious oatmeal parfait. It’s even easier than pouring a bowl of cold cereal, plus it’s packed with fiber and protein to keep you full longer. Prep several jars at once, and the whole family can enjoy these tasty applesauce overnight oats together!
Peanut adds a good note to this meal! Thanks for the recipe and the brilliant idea! 
– Dennis
Apple season holds equal ground with pumpkin spice season in my head. Both call to mind comforting and delicious cinnamon-infused flavors of fall. I can’t get enough apples right now, and they are the inspiration for this quick vegetarian breakfast!
🍎 Overnight Oats with Applesauce Ingredients
This recipe contains (mostly!) simple ingredients that I usually have in my pantry or fridge. Here’s what you need for this overnight oats recipe:
- ½ cup cinnamon applesauce
- ½ cup dry rolled oats (AKA old fashioned oats)
- 1 tablespoon peanut flour
- ½ cup vanilla Greek yogurt
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 tablespoon chopped peanuts or chopped apples (optional, for topping)
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For the applesauce, you can use storebought or try my homemade unsweetened applesauce recipe for added flavor. It’s a terrific way to use seasonal apples! You could also use this applesauce substitute made with pears if you’d prefer.
I use dry rolled oats in this recipe, a pantry staple in my household. Quick oats and instant oats may also be used, though the end consistency will be a bit mushier. Don’t use steel cut oats in this recipe; they don’t soften enough in the fridge and the end result will be unpleasantly gritty.
Peanut flour is a tasty and low calorie way to add peanut butter flavor to foods. Two tablespoons of peanut flour provides (approximately) 50 calories, while two tablespoons of unsweetened peanut butter provides 180 calories.
I used Crazy Richard’s Peanut Butter Powder in this recipe.
You can put your overnight oats in any pint-sized, food-safe container with a lid or cover that you have on hand. I prefer to use wide-mouth, pint-sized glass canning jars. One of the most common brands is Ball jars.
🍏 How to Make Applesauce Overnight Oats
Stir together the rolled oatmeal and peanut flour in a medium-size bowl. Add the Greek yogurt and milk and mix again. Make sure the ingredients are thoroughly combined.
To layer, start by putting ½ of the oatmeal mixture in a pint jar. Next, add ½ of the applesauce to the jar. Spread each layer around with the back of a spoon to make it even.
To finish the parfait layers, put the rest of the oat mixture in the jar, and then the rest of the applesauce. Put the lids (or covers) on the jars and pop them in the fridge overnight.
Top with chopped peanuts or chopped apples right before eating (if desired). Since each jar holds a single serving, I typically eat the applesauce oats with a spoon right out of the jar. YUM!
It’s best not to add the peanuts until serving time because they’ll get soft if left in the jar overnight.
Overnight Oats Storage
In general, a closed jar of this overnight oats recipe will last 3-4 days in the refrigerator. However, if you use highly perishable ingredients (such as fresh raspberries), your jar oats may only last 1-2 days.
Can overnight oats be warmed up?
Yes, though overnight oatmeal is often served cold, you can heat overnight oats if you would prefer. Keep in mind that heating the yogurt in this recipe may kill the beneficial bacteria. Additionally, some overnight oat recipes use fresh fruit that is best served chilled.
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Overnight Oats with Applesauce Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup cinnamon applesauce
- ½ cup rolled oatmeal, dry
- 1 tablespoon peanut flour
- ½ cup vanilla Greek yogurt
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 tablespoon chopped peanuts (or chopped apples; optional, for topping)
Instructions
- Stir together the rolled oatmeal and peanut flour in a medium-size bowl. Add the Greek yogurt and milk and mix again. Make sure the ingredients are thoroughly combined.
- To layer, start by putting ½ of the oatmeal mixture in a pint jar. Next, add ½ of the applesauce to the jar. Spread each layer around with the back of a spoon to make it even.
- To finish the parfait layers, put the rest of the oat mixture in the jar, and then the rest of the applesauce. Put the lids (or covers) on the jars and pop them in the fridge overnight.
- Top with chopped peanuts or chopped apples right before eating (if desired).
Equipment
Notes
💭 Expert Tips from Dietitian Summer Yule
This is a level 1 recipe (may help support fat loss). There are so many ways to modify this applesauce overnight oats recipe depending on your needs and preferences! For example, you could make this a higher calorie oatmeal recipe with one or more of the following swaps:- Use whole milk Greek yogurt instead of nonfat Greek yogurt or low-fat Greek yogurt
- Use whole dairy milk instead of skim milk, low-fat milk, or plant milk
- Add more chopped peanuts and/or chia seeds
nutrition info disclaimer
All recipes on this website may or may not be appropriate for you, depending on your medical needs and personal preferences. Consult with a registered dietitian or your physician if you need help determining the dietary pattern that may be best for you.
The nutrition information is an estimate provided as a courtesy. It will differ depending on the specific brands and ingredients that you use. Calorie information on food labels may be inaccurate, so please don’t sweat the numbers too much.
“To taste” means to your preferences, which may have to be visual to follow food safety rules. Please don’t eat undercooked food x
Nutrition
👨🍳 Other Overnight Oats Recipes
Unsweetened oatmeal is really quite plain-tasting, but it makes a great canvas for a broad range of varied breakfasts. If you keep changing up the fruits, nuts, and seeds you add to it, you’ll never have the same meal twice! If you are all about overnight oatmeal right now, don’t miss out on these:
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Hello! I’m Summer, a registered dietitian and home chef who loves to cook, eat, and create recipes for you! Every recipe on this site has been tested by me to help ensure your success in the kitchen. All eaters are welcome here 🙂
Peanut adds a good note to this meal! Thanks for the recipe and the brilliant idea!
Thank you for leaving a rating! I am so glad that you liked it!
There you go, Summer, five stars again. Your idea still is as delectable as it was this spring, and this time it gets the rating to prove it.
Thanks for the encore!
Thank you for leaving a rating! Eventually I hope to improve upon a lot of my older posts, but continue adding new recipes as well. 🙂
This looks great! I’ve been looking for a no sugar added overnight oats.
Thank you so much! If you liked this one, all of my overnight oats recipes have no added sugar. They’re all listed in the breakfast section 😀
Great idea, as is typical of you, Summer. I’m familiar with people indulging in apple slices slathered in peanut butter, of course, but I never though of combining the two with oats before. Summer, once again, for the inspiration!
I love the whole idea of your breakfast jars. Not only for the flavors the bring (obviously) and for their nutritional potency (naturally), but for their convenience. Pull it from the freezer the night before, and the next morning you have something delicious, homemade, and instant. How’s that for squaring the circle? Anyone who says it’s impossible to have the best of both worlds obviously hasn’t tried one of your breakfast jars.
Thank you 🙂 I remember a little while back talking about how I wanted to eat more oatmeal for breakfast. This quarantine made it easy. Eggs are somewhat scarce and I spend most of my time hanging out in my house with many pounds of oatmeal. The issue has solved itself!