Healthy Pistachio Overnight Oats (Vegan, GF, Fruit-Sweetened, Maple Option)

Kelly
Apr 11
5 min read

Overnight oats recipe #100000/?... there can never be enough overnight oats on this blog. Anyway, I had a lot of raw pistachio butter and decided to make some delicious, sweet, almond-y/pistachio-y overnight oatmeal with it. The results? They are creamy, pistachio-forward, lightly sweet, and absolutely delicious, a new favorite, for sure. As always, they are vegan, gluten-free, refined sugar free, and naturally colored. An added bonus: they are very easy to make, only take 5 minutes to mix together and pop in the fridge, and by the time you wake up in the morning, breakfast is ready. If you're a pistachio/almond fan, these overnight oats are a must. If you don't like pistachios? Still, try these- trust me when I say they're that good. Happy breakfasting!

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Loaded with fiber, protein, healthy fats, iron, copper, manganese, B vitamins, and potassium, these overnight oats are the perfect healthy breakfast to wake up to (that takes no time or effort in the morning). These nutrients will help you stay fuller for longer, so no midday blood sugar crashes here!

Plus: there's absolutely no refined sugar in this jar of oats. Just dates or maple syrup (baker's choice!), yet they taste like dessert. Creamy, firm, nutty, with a clean sweetness, and zero starchiness they're better than traditional oatmeal.

The green color comes naturally from (optional) green spirulina- which adds an additional nutritional boost. And these Healthy Pistachio Overnight Oats are vegan and gluten-free too.

Ok quick question for my blog readers: do you think I should bring the nutrition facts back to my recipes? I had several Dimpled Date posts that included the nutritional data on my recipes, but I had been calculating it by hand and it wasn't sustainable for posting. But are you interested in seeing the numbers? Should I bring nutrition facts back? Let me know in the comments + how you liked this recipe if you tried it!

So, wanna see some new cakes I've been working on? Keep reading.

Raspberry Chocolate rosettes cake:

I just did a similar design partially covered in real edible flowers for my sisters bridal shower... plus 2 other cakes (an orange frosted cake covered in pressed pansies and a velour cake). But really this is a great Mother's Day cake too!

And I don't have any more cakes to show you... yet lol. But here's a sneak preview of a new recipe I'm working on for a floral simple syrup that you can use in cakes, etc.:

Believe it or not that gorgeous aqua/teal hue is not from blue spirulina, but is a natural color from the flowers used! And if you add a couple drops of lemon juice, it changes color to purple syrup! Tune in to the new simple syrup recipe soon to find out this mystery color-changing flower...

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Substitutions

Gluten-free rolled oats

the oats cannot be substituted. I highly recommend gluten-free rolled (AKA old-fashioned) oats, but you can try using GF quick oats or GF plain unsweetened instant oats with mixed results. I DO NOT recommend using steel-cut oats, as steel-cut overnight oats require a whole different recipe (which I've experimented with and am trying to perfect). If you don't have Celiac's or an allergy/severe sensitivity, you can use non-gluten-free oats (oats are naturally gluten-free in their own right, but are often cross-contaminated with gluten-containing crops. So for those who have a severe allergy, it's necessary to use only certified gluten-free oats)

Chia seeds

try ground flax meal instead or whole flaxseeds instead- like chia seeds this will help the oats gel up/make them firmer. Or if you don't need that extract firmness, try hempseed

Unsweetened plant milk

any kind of unsweetened plant milk works, e.g. almond milk, rice milk, oat milk, coconut milk, cashew milk, pistachio milk, hemp milk, pea milk, pumpkin seed/pepita milk, etc. Make sure you use nut-free/coconut-free and soy-free as needed. Homemade or store-bought, extra creamy or thin plant milk works. Instead of using plant milk, try water or coconut water. You could even try cutting some of the plant milk with dairy-free unsweetened kefir. If sugar is ok on your diet, you can use sweetened plant milk.

Date paste/maple syrup

Instead, you can use date sugar, maple sugar, coconut sugar, honey, coconut nectar, agave, date syrup, OR yacón syrup. Alternatively, try 1 to 1 1/2 very ripe bananas, mashed instead for a more mild sweetness. For entirely sugar-free, try 100% pure monk fruit extract (NO erythritol added, just concentrated monk fruit extract in water and/or alcohol). OR try pure stevia extract to taste. You could also cut or replace some of the keto sweeteners with the more natural inulin powder and/or chicory root fiber syrup (clear gold sweetener, not dark). Both of these sweeteners are naturally occurring sweet-tasting fibers, and therefore are sugar-free

Raw pistachio butter

Pistachios are kind of the point, because these are pistachio overnight oats. But instead of pistachio butter, try raw almond butter, raw pumpkin seed (pepita) butter, tahini, sunflower seed butter, raw cashew butter, OR raw or roasted hazelnut butter for different flavors. Just make sure whatever nut/seed butter you use, it's unsweetened and raw (if roasted is too intense). And you can use store-bought or homemade pistachio butter, but please use raw unsalted pistachio butter and NOT roasted/salted. If you use roasted/salted pistachio butter, it will make these oats taste savory and oily. See the "NOTES" section at the bottom of the recipe card below for instructions on how to make homemade raw pistachio butter.

Almond extract

This is to help accentuate the pistachio flavor. Instead of almond extract, you can use natural pistachio extract or you can even try natural cherry extract for a similar aroma but this will add a sweet tang of fruitiness too. Alternatively, you may leave out the almond extract

Vanilla extract

you can use extra almond extract instead. Or instead of extract, try fresh scraped vanilla bean, a pinch of ground vanilla beans (pre-collected black seeds), a little sugar-free vanilla paste (sugar-like scrub), sugar-free vanilla syrup, OR a pinch sugar-free vanilla powder (white powder). Alternatively, you can just omit the vanilla

Green spirulina

this ingredient is perfectly optional and is just to color the overnight oats a slightly greener color. If you want, you can try a pinch of matcha powder instead OR use a little natural/vegan/sugar-free green food coloring. Or, simply omit the colorant for naturally pale green-beige oats