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Chia Chai Butternut Breakfast Pudding
by Melissa & Jasmine Hemsley from The Art of Eating Well
Easy
Serves 2-4
Enjoy a sweet, nutritious start to the day with Hemsley and Hemsley’s Chia Chai Pudding recipe. Make it the night before for a quick but healthy midweek breakfast.
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Introduction
This is an overnight breakfast or make-ahead dessert. We’ve infused omega-3-rich chia seeds with our favourite rooibos chai breakfast tea and together they turn the usually savoury butternut squash into a sweet start to the day.
This is so yummy that you’ll also fancy it as a cool, creamy dessert. We love it with summer fruits, such as blackberries, grapes, figs, plums or peaches, which are just in season as butternut comes in. In the winter months, try apple chunks, chopped clementines or blood orange.
If you bake the butternut squash the night before, then it’s ready to go in the morning. Don’t forget to chew well in order to get the most goodness out of the tiny chia seeds.
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Ingredients
| 1 | large butternut squash (enough to make 400g cooked butternut squash purée) |
|---|---|
| 2 | rooibos chai tea bags or 2 tsp rooibos chai tea leaves |
| 4 tbsp | white chia seeds (we used white chia to keep the pudding’s bright orange colour, but black also works – and is cheaper and easier to find too!) |
| 3 tbsp | coconut oil |
| 1 tbsp | raw honey (or vegan syrup) |
| Optional: | |
| Coconut Yoghurt and goji berries, to serve |
Method
Preheat the oven to fan 180°C/Gas mark 6 and roast the butternut squash in the oven for 40–50 minutes until cooked through and tender. Scoop out 400g of the squash flesh and mash well. Any leftover squash can be frozen and used in a soup or smoothie.
Add the squash to a saucepan with 350ml water, the coconut oil and the tea leaves (or the contents of the tea bags, if using). Bring to a medium simmer, then remove from the heat and leave to cool for a few minutes.
Stir in the chia seeds, continuously whisking at first to avoid lumps, then add the honey.
Leave to sit for at least 20 minutes to an hour for the chia to swell (unless you like it crunchy). Alternatively, transfer to a flask and by the time you get to work, you’ll have a nice warm chia breakfast pudding.
Add the coconut yoghurt and goji berries, if using, and enjoy.
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