It was Princess Diana’s breakfast dish most mornings. Super healthy and packed with protein and nutrients the perfect start to her busy days. Of course everyone is eating overnight oats these days but Princess Diana had them on her menu ten years before everyone else.

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Overnight Oats
Serves 2

1 cup rolled oats
1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
1 cup Greek yogurt
1 TBS raw honey
1/4 tsp cinnamon (optional)
1/2 honey crisp apple
1 lemon, juice only
1 cup fresh blueberries
1/2 cup toasted walnuts

Add the orange juice to the oats, stir and cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate over night. Stir in the Greek yogurt, honey (to taste) and lemon juice. Grate the apple and add to the oats and fold in. Add half of the blueberries and stir. Spoon into a serving dish and decorate with the remaining blueberries and walnuts.

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48 Comments

  1. I love that he admitted he used to double the recipe for himself to enjoy too! I would have too. Looks delicious.

  2. Chef, I’ve never wept watching someone make breakfast before, but I am now! I miss Princess Diana all the time and now I get to taste something she loved. This means the world to me, Chef! Thank you for sharing this! I can’t wait to try it! ❤

  3. Is it possible to leave it for the next day or does it have to be eaten the same day?❤

  4. Irrelevant, but I used to soak allbran and sultanas in fresh orange juice overnight in the fridge during summer – and it was delicious on a summer morning…
    As for oats, no, I love mine savoury, cooked and salted with butter. Drool…

  5. I always add Maldon sea salt and little maple syrup! Thank you for showing us one of Lady Di’s favorite meals! ❤

  6. Ferment them with a teaspoon of sourdough starter before soaking overnight. The probiotics are fantastic for the gut microbiome!

  7. I love that you keep alive and so generously share this recipe Princess Diana enjoyed. Always in our hearts. Thank you! (I'm subscribing, too.)

  8. I will try that recipe…mine is 2 Weetabix steeped in soya unsweetened milk and 2 desert spoons of Yoe Valley plain organic yogurt, flame raisons and walnuts. I leave the whole lot over night and then add good quality honey in the morning excellent for constipation..

  9. I do them with chia seeds already, do them with half water/half oat milk (I avoid dairy and only take raw honey) and eat them with fresh fruits of the season.
    That way they are really healthy.
    I learned that some year ago as I became a Food Matters nutrition coach

  10. Great video. Thank you. And thank you for mentioning the Aargovian (home Canton) physician and nutritional reformer Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner as the inventor, even though he had observed the shepherds doing it in the summer on the alpine pastures. Hence the name Birchermüesli.

  11. She used to get her oats overnight… visiting the Pakistani surgeon at the hospital (whilst claiming to have been spending the night holding the hands of dying patients).
    She was a right goer!

  12. She was way ahead of her time, didn't know overnight oats were a thing back then. They're pretty meta nowadays

  13. thank you for the wonderful recipe dear; I always admired princess Diana, may her soul rest in eternal peace. Salam from Badakhshan of Tajikistan

  14. Great healthy super power breakfast I prepared them hit with dry cranberries, almonds , apples pieces, vanilla extract, cinnamon, butter and some milk

  15. I'll try it. Need some rolled oats anyway, i will add banana slices to mine… Yum… And cream…. Ok, I'll try the whiskey one too lol