Name: Eat like a royal with Princess Diana’s Overnight Oats
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 1 cup rolled oats; 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice; 1 cup Greek yoghurt; 1 tbsp raw honey; ¼ tsp cinnamon (optional); ½ honey crisp apple; 1 lemon, juice only; 1 cup fresh blueberries; ½ cup toasted walnuts

Eat like a royal with Princess Diana’s Overnight Oats

Royal Chef Darren McGrady has shared the original recipe for the first time!

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Serves 2

Prep

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Former Royal Chef, Darren McGrady, has shared the Overnight Oats recipe that he prepared for Princess Diana’s breakfast for years! With only five minutes prep time, it’s shockingly easy to eat like royalty.

Where did Princess Diana’s overnight oats recipe come from?

Overnight oats became a viral hit back in 2012 and remain popular today, but Darren McGrady reported that Princess Diana was eating them almost 20 years earlier, from 1993. She went to a Swiss health clinic and had the overnight oats there. They were called Bircher Muesli and were invented by a Swiss nutritionist, says McGrady. Princess Diana loved them and ‘stole’ the recipe. She then asked her chef to prepare them for breakfast every day.

Watch Chef McGrady preparing the overnight oats, or follow him on Instagram for more royal culinary insights.

The People’s Princess loved overnight oats and ate them for breakfast every morning for years. *(Credit: Royals Monthly)*

TIP – If you can’t find Honey Crisp apples, try Cosmic Crisp, Gala or Red Delicious

Ingredients

1 cup rolled oats

1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice

1 cup Greek yoghurt

1 tbsp raw honey

¼ tsp cinnamon (optional)

½ honey crisp apple

1 lemon, juice only

1 cup fresh blueberries

½ cup toasted walnuts

Method

Step 1.

Add the orange juice to the oats, stir and cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate over night.

Step 2.

Stir in the Greek yoghurt, honey (to taste) and lemon juice. Grate the apple and add to the oats and fold in. Add half of the blueberries and stir.

Step 3.

Spoon into a serving dish and decorate with the remaining blueberries and walnuts.

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