Chia Seed Recipes

My new favorite dessert

This pudding is very thick, smooth and delicious. Although it tastes decadent, it uses healthy ingredients. Based on the favorite Australian chocolate bar called Cherry Ripe, a concoction of dark chocolate, cherries and coconut, it is simple to make and makes a wonderful dessert.

This pudding is very thick and can be set in a smooth sided rammekin or glass and unmoulded using a knife to loosen it. The flavor and texture is a little like a chocolate mousse.

Ingredients per serve

choc cherry chia photo by C Pudney

One half cup of coconut milk

2 teaspoons of raw cacao powder

2 Tablespoons of milled chia seeds

1 teaspoon of granulated palm sugar

10 to 12 pitted cherries – fresh if you can or drained canned cherries

Coconut chips to garnish

Method

Blend together the coconut milk, cacao powder and coconut palm sugar until the sugar is dissolved. A stick blender or magic bullet is ideal

chia choc cherry set in a glass and turned out

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Add the milled chia seedsand stir well, then stir in half the cherries.

Pour into a bowl or a rammekin or glass if you wish to unmould it.

Leave to set in the fridge for at least an hour.

Serve garnished with the rest of the cherries and some coconut chips.

Idea

Leave the pudding to set in a small plastic container and freeze it, then unmould for a frozen dessert treat.