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Milk Tart Chia Pudding
Today’s recipe is for my ultimate breakfast / dessert hybrid Milk Tart Chia Pudding. Milk Tart is an Afrikaans dessert consisting of a sweet pastry crust containing a custard filling made from milk, flour, sugar and eggs. For this recipe, we take those flavours and incorporate them into a breakfast that is sure to be a crowd pleaser this Christmas. What’s better than a sweet chia pudding for breakfast you ask – well how about a Milk Tart Chia Pudding that tastes like the real deal but is gluten free and vegan? For this recipe, I purchased my ingredients (cinnamon, chia, nutmeg, vanilla) from the Zero Waste Store The Refillery. …
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Breakfast
Three Layered Peanut Butter and Jelly Chia
Nothing better than a PB&J sarmie, so I took the flavours of peanut butter and jam (jelly) and made a three layered Peanut Butter and Jelly Chia pudding. This Three Layered Peanut Butter and Jelly Chia pudding contains the following hero ingredients: sugar-free peanut butter, chia seeds, almond milk, vanilla essence, almond milk, agar-agar, maple syrup and fresh strawberries. How to make the Jelly Layer First, you will need about 5 strawberries, and if you can get your hands on the Woolworths Flavourburst Strawberries – all the better. Chop and then slowly simmer the strawberries in a saucepan with water, agar and a squeeze of lemon juice. Pour into the…
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Breakfast
Guilt-free Blackberry Oatmeal Parfait
Hello to today’s recipe: Guilt-free Blackberry Oatmeal Parfait, Vanilla Chia Oats, layered between fresh Blackberries, yoghurt and Blackberry Compote. You heard that right: a Guilt-free Blackberry Oatmeal Parfait because breakfast doesn’t have to be boring brown oats. Blackberries are one of my favourite fruits and they seem to still be available at Woolies, so I grabbed a punnet to make this breakfast jar. Making the Parfait This recipe uses a quick sautée method to cook the blackberries and you can easily double this recipe if you want to make a bigger batch, and save half to put over your morning yoghurt. Once that’s done, we move onto the oats, which…
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