Perfect Chia Parfait
I love chia seed pudding. It's on-par with instant Jell-O pudding as far as "this is stupidly easy to make," but it tastes better and is better for you. This recipe was inspired by the young lady who hosts Oh She Glows, but the pudding recipe is different, and the measures are different. This recipe fits nicely into two 1-cup Ziploc containers, with the measures in (parentheses) appropriate for six 1-cup Ziploc containers.
You can probably guess a) how many of us I'm trying to feed, minimum, and b) how many Ziploc containers come in a pack. It's not laziness, here, it's ... efficiency.
Yep.
Ingredients
1/2 cup (1 1/2 cups) chia seed
3 cups (9 cups) soymilk, almond milk, rice milk, coconut milk, cow milk, etc.
3 tbsp (1/2 cup + 1 tbsp) maple syrup
1 tsp (3 tsp) vanilla
2 (6) kiwis
1 small (3 small) bananas, and you will have some leftover, so be ready to just eat the leftovers
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl (small if you're making 2 servings, large if you're making 6), combine seeds, milk, maple syrup, and vanilla.
- Whisk until combined.
- Go peel a kiwi.
- Whisk the pudding.
- Peel the other kiwi.
- Whisk the pudding.
- Slice both kiwis into 1/8"ish slices.
- Whisk the pudding. It'll be getting thick right about now.
- Peel the banana. Slice it into 1/8"ish slices.
- Whisk the pudding. Should be thicker still.
- Once the pudding's a pudding-like consistency, put a generous spoonful on the bottom of whatever container you're putting it into. You want a thin layer, maybe 1/4" deep, on the bottom.
- Artfully arrange 3-4 kiwi slices on the pudding.
- Layer ~1/2" pudding on top of that.
- Artfully arrange a layer of banana slices on that.
- 'Nother 1/2" pudding.
- Artful kiwis next.
- Pudding. You'll probably have some left over.
- Pray the lid'll still go on.
- Eat leftover bananas. They go great with leftover pudding.
- Refrigerate if you're not going to scarf down the parfait then and there.
If you don't like kiwi or bananas, put in other fruits. Unlike pudding, chia will set up with ANY fruit, so go ... bananas? Nuts? Be creative.
Oh, and if you have dentures, or if you're going to serve this to someone with dentures, run the pudding through a high-speed blender before assembling the parfaits. Where I've not yet tried this, I hear it breaks up the little seeds into a smooth paste. If this turns out to be false, I'll update this post, just as soon as I get back from taking my mother-in-law to the dentist to pry seeds out of her partial. >_o
You can probably guess a) how many of us I'm trying to feed, minimum, and b) how many Ziploc containers come in a pack. It's not laziness, here, it's ... efficiency.
Yep.
Perfect Chia Parfait
Ingredients
1/2 cup (1 1/2 cups) chia seed
3 cups (9 cups) soymilk, almond milk, rice milk, coconut milk, cow milk, etc.
3 tbsp (1/2 cup + 1 tbsp) maple syrup
1 tsp (3 tsp) vanilla
2 (6) kiwis
1 small (3 small) bananas, and you will have some leftover, so be ready to just eat the leftovers
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl (small if you're making 2 servings, large if you're making 6), combine seeds, milk, maple syrup, and vanilla.
- Whisk until combined.
- Go peel a kiwi.
- Whisk the pudding.
- Peel the other kiwi.
- Whisk the pudding.
- Slice both kiwis into 1/8"ish slices.
- Whisk the pudding. It'll be getting thick right about now.
- Peel the banana. Slice it into 1/8"ish slices.
- Whisk the pudding. Should be thicker still.
- Once the pudding's a pudding-like consistency, put a generous spoonful on the bottom of whatever container you're putting it into. You want a thin layer, maybe 1/4" deep, on the bottom.
- Artfully arrange 3-4 kiwi slices on the pudding.
- Layer ~1/2" pudding on top of that.
- Artfully arrange a layer of banana slices on that.
- 'Nother 1/2" pudding.
- Artful kiwis next.
- Pudding. You'll probably have some left over.
- Pray the lid'll still go on.
- Eat leftover bananas. They go great with leftover pudding.
- Refrigerate if you're not going to scarf down the parfait then and there.
If you don't like kiwi or bananas, put in other fruits. Unlike pudding, chia will set up with ANY fruit, so go ... bananas? Nuts? Be creative.
Oh, and if you have dentures, or if you're going to serve this to someone with dentures, run the pudding through a high-speed blender before assembling the parfaits. Where I've not yet tried this, I hear it breaks up the little seeds into a smooth paste. If this turns out to be false, I'll update this post, just as soon as I get back from taking my mother-in-law to the dentist to pry seeds out of her partial. >_o
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