I am going to review how to make a breakfast parfait. If you haven't tried a breakfast parfait before then you are in for a treat as it is a delicious way to start your day.
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| Image photo by Louanne Cox, adapted for this article with Canva |
I know that technically it's not a parfait, but I saw someone on Instagram layering yogurt, fruit and a little granola in a tall glass and calling it a breakfast parfait. I immediately thought of a different option that I could make.
First a little bit about me. I absolutely love overnight oats and eat these for my breakfast regularly, they taste good, but to be honest they don't look that fantastic. I also love having berries with my breakfast and when I choose to have proats I will often top them with berries. I also like to keep my breakfasts both gluten and dairy-free for the majority of the time.
Now let's look at the breakfast parfait.
My Breakfast Parfait Breakdown
I basically have 3 different layers:
- Coconut yogurt
- Overnight oats
- Frozen berries
2/3 cups oats (now I use regular oats as I'm not a celiac so the fact that some gluten may be present - oats are naturally gluten-free - isn't something I need to worry about, but obviously you can use any oats)
2 scoops of vanilla protein powder (I use Arbonne's one which is a vegan protein)
1 cup dairy-free milk of choice (I alternate between using coconut milk or unsweetened almond milk)
The rest of the ingredients I don't really measure (confession time I tend to be a throw things together kind of cook as opposed to measuring everything carefully!).
Black chia seeds, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds.
I mix this all together and I'm ready to start making the parfait. You will note (if you've made overnight oats before) that I don't add as much fluid as usual, this is because I'm adding yogurt and frozen berries so the oats can soak up some of the water from the defrosting process and some of the yogurt.
I use what is called a breakfast smoothie cup to make my breakfast parfait in - I had tried a hurricane glass I have at home, but it wasn't big enough! I brought mine in K-Mart here in Australia, but you can find similar items on Amazon if you're not in Australia or New Zealand. Mine has a lid with a hole in it and reusable straw as well as a full lid which is the one that I obviously use and is similar to this one that I found on Amazon - Smoothie Breakfast Cup.
Putting the Breakfast Parfait Together
I place a little yogurt in the bottom of the glass/cup, on top of this I add 1/3 of the overnight oats mixture, then some frozen fruit*, yogurt, 1/3 of the overnight oats mix, frozen fruit, yogurt, remaining overnight oats, a small amount of fruit and a tsp or two of the yogurt (I like to be able to see a little of the oat mixture showing through around the edges when I look at the breakfast parfait, but the aesthetic is up to you.
As far as the frozen fruit I actually use different ones on each layer. First up I use a mixed blend called the Dark Fruits Mix (it contains blackberries, dark cherries, black currants), next I use a mixed blend called Ruby Fruits Mix (this contains strawberries, dark cherries, red currants), on the top I use frozen blueberries.
To be honest, I would probably mix the fruits up even more, but they've been in short supply in our local supermarket at the moment so I've been using the fruits I've got plenty of. I do love the variety as I eat so I'll continue to mix it up but I can't wait to be able to get frozen raspberries & blackberries again as I fancy trying a layer of each of the following - raspberries, strawberries & blackberries.
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| Photo by Lou16 |
You can see the different layers showing through in this photo, doesn't it look good? Let me know if you are going to try this or not.
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