Chocolate Chia Pudding with Hazelnut Fudge
Servings: 6
Delicious healthy vegan chocolate chia seed puddings, topped with hazelnut sauce hits that sweet, chocolatey spot and is low in carbs.
INGREDIENTS LIST
- 100 g chia seeds
- 100 g dark chocolate (minimum 50% cocoa solids) (65%)
- 1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 700 ml non-dairy milk (almond, oat, rice or soy milk)
Hazelnut fudge sauce
- 5 medjool dates (pitted)
- 100 ml water
- 40 g whole roasted hazelnuts (without shell, see notes)
Preparation
- Chia pudding: Heat the milk in a pan until almost boiling.
- To a mixing bowl, add the chia seeds, sea salt, cocoa powder and chopped dark chocolate.
- Pour the heated milk over your chia seed and chocolate combination. Gently whisk well, until all the chocolate and cocoa powder have dissolved.
- Spoon the mixture into 6 serving glasses and leave to cool on the side for 1 hour. Once cool place into the refrigerator to set for another hour.
- Place the pitted dates into a bowl and add the water to allow them to soak while the chia pudding is setting.
- Once your chia pudding has set, you can prepare the hazelnut sauce.
- Hazelnut fudge: In a food processor, process the hazelnuts to a puree add the soaked dates and half the liquid, continue processing until almost smooth. Scrape down the sides of the food processor in-between if the dates stick to the side of the bowl. If it is too thick at a little more of the liquid from soaking the dates until you get the required consistency.
- To serve, top your set chia puddings with the fudge sauce mixture and garnish with additional chopped hazelnuts and grated dark chocolate.
Notes & Tips
Hazelnuts: If you can’t find peeled roasted hazelnuts, place the alternative hazelnuts in an oven preheated to 180C / 350F for 8 minutes.
To remove the skins, you can either rub the hazelnut skins off with a clean kitchen cloth or shake the hazelnuts vigorously in a tightly closed container for a minute or so, until most of the skins come off. Don’t worry if there is some skin, but the idea is to remove the majority because it can be a bit bitter.
Nut butter: If you don’t want to fuss around or don’t have a decent food processor for preparing the nuts you can buy hazelnut butter or any other nut butter of choice instead. These are now easily found in supermarkets or health food shops.
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