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Overnight Bircher Apple Cottage Cheese Parfait

Soft, creamy apple-juice-soaked oats with grated apple and plump raisins, layered with vanilla-maple cottage cheese under a crunchy seed topping.

Overnight Bircher Apple Cottage Cheese Parfait

Ingredients

  • 1 cup80 gOld-fashioned rolled oats
  • ⅔ cup (160 ml)160 gApple juice, unsweetened
  • 1½ medium240 gApplecoarsely grated, skin on
  • 3½ tbsp30 gRaisins
  • 2 tsp10 gLemon juice
  • 1⅛ tsp3 gGround cinnamondivided
  • 2 cups450 gCottage cheese, 2%
  • 1 tbsp20 gMaple syrup
  • 1 tsp4 gVanilla extract
  • ⅓ cup40 gPumpkin seeds (pepitas)roughly chopped; store-bought toasted if you like
  • 1½ tbsp12 gSesame seedsstore-bought toasted if you like

Steps

  1. The night before: in a bowl, toss the grated apple with the lemon juice so it stays bright.
  2. Stir the oats, apple juice, raisins and two thirds of the cinnamon into the apple. Cover and refrigerate for at least 8 hours, until the oats are soft and creamy.
  3. When ready to serve, stir the cottage cheese with the maple syrup, vanilla and the remaining one third of the cinnamon in a second bowl.
  4. In a small bowl, mix the pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds for the crunch.
  5. Set out 4 glasses. Spoon half of the soaked apple oats into the glasses, dividing evenly, then add half of the maple cottage cheese.
  6. Layer on the remaining half of the apple oats, then the remaining half of the maple cottage cheese.
  7. Just before serving, sprinkle the seed crunch over each parfait so it stays crisp.

Check labels: Gluten-free when you buy old-fashioned rolled oats labeled gluten-free.

Contains: Milk, Sesame. Some brands contain gluten.

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Saved in the Every Helping recipe book on October 24, 2026.

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