This gut-friendly recipe is very adaptable and can be made with any similar ingredients you may already have in your pantry. It is prepared and soaked overnight and takes the breakfast stress away on busy mid-week mornings.
Ingredients
1/2cuprolled oats
1/4cupmilksoy, almond or rice milk
1/2grated apple
1/4cupfresh or dried fruit
2tablespoonsagave nectar or maple syrup
1/4cupchopped nuts or seeds
juice of half a lemon or orange
Instructions
The measurements included here can be adapted to your taste. Experiment with this basic formula, adding things or leaving them out as you find tasty. You can leave the oats soaking overnight which works the best. However soaking for half an hour in the morning works fine too.
Take ½ C of rolled oats. Place in a bowl and cover with about ¼ C of vegan milk of your choice. Leave this to soak overnight in the fridge, covering the bowl with cling wrap to retain its own flavours.
After soaking, the oats will look puffed up and will have absorbed the water or milk. Grate or coarsely process apple and pour over the oats, skin and juice included. Cut up any other fresh fruit, aiming for variety of color - Berries, grapes, melon and banana are particularly delicious in Bircher Muesli. Dried fruit such as sultanas, chopped dates and apricots, raisins or cranberries can be sprinkled on top as well.
Add the chopped nuts and seeds, such as walnuts, almonds, ground flax seeds, sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds. Optionally add the juice of half a lemon or juice of half an orange. Finally add your flavoring. A teaspoon or two of agave or maple syrup, a sprinkling of cinnamon and nutmeg, or a tablespoon of flaxseed oil are all optional toppings.