Swiss Muesli Breakfast Bowls
With this one recipe, you can have a new breakfast every day:
The creamy and filling breakfast bowl keeps you satisfied until well past lunchtime, with healthy and all-natural delicious ingredients – nothing processed or artificial.
You can make it your own by changing up the ingredients for endless healthy breakfast options. The recipe is based on a popular European breakfast known as bircher muesli, which is traditionally made up of raw oats, fruit, nuts, and seeds soaked in milk and yogurt overnight; and it’s not much different from what Americans know as “overnight oatmeal.”
Fittingly, the first time I ever tried real Swiss muesli was many years ago in Europe.
Having arrived at the hotel early in the morning after an overnight flight, my parents immediately went back to sleep while my younger sister and I—bounding with the excitement of being in a new place—tried to entertain ourselves quietly within the confines of the room.
After flipping through the foreign television channels again and again, we finally transferred our waning attention towards the room service menu. Breakfast sounded like the perfect antidote to our boredom. My sister chose scambled eggs and toast; but I was feeling more adventurous and therefore settled on something of which I’d never heard before: Bircher Muesli.
Customizable Muesli Breakfast Bowls
(serves 2-3)
Adapted from: Chocolate Chip Cookie Overnight Oats
- 1 cup rolled oats (80g)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 very small apple or pear, diced
- 1/4 cup raisins or dried fruit of choice
- 2 tbsp chia seeds
- 2-3 tbsp chopped nuts (or more dried fruit or seeds)
- 1 cup milk of choice
- 1 cup yogurt, such as Wholesoy or So Delicious
- optional squeeze of lemon
- optional shredded coconut, sweetener of choice, banana, chocolate chips, etc.
Stir together all dry ingredients in a bowl. Stir in the yogurt and milk, cover, and refrigerate overnight. It will get thick during this time. When ready to eat, sweeten if desired, and add more milk of choice if desired. Traditionally, muesli is eaten chilled; however you may warm it up if you’d prefer. Leftovers can be eaten the next day if desired.
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