A Little Bit of Excess in a Sensible Package

'There’s deep pleasure in creamy chilled oats, a small indulgence that leaves you feeling great.

There’s deep pleasure in creamy chilled oats, an easy make-ahead breakfast that blends the comfort of hot porridge with the fun of crunchy cereal in cold milk. After a season of feasting with friends and family, it’s a welcome meal for one that tastes like an indulgence but leaves you feeling great.

It also fits just about any New Year’s resolution to eat well, a nod to its origins. Around 1900, Dr. Maximilian Bircher-Benner popularized Swiss-German müesli by serving it at his sanitarium in the Alps. He mixed water-soaked oats, grated apple and nuts with condensed milk and yogurt.

This modern version forgoes the one-note sweetness and pasty thickness of the original. Instead, it layers flavors and textures like crackling nuts, chewy fruit, seeds and oats suspended in milk with the loose swish of melted ice cream.

This recipe tastes better than müesli — and most other overnight oats — because of salt, which draws out the grain’s inherent sweetness. But its play of creamy and crunchy is what will help it win the year.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/dining/overnight-oats-recipe.html?