Coconut Spice & Roasted Strawberry Chia Puddings
Ingredients
Roasted Strawberries
500g– 750g fresh strawberries
1–2 Tbsp honey (or to taste)
1/2 tsp vanilla powder or vanilla bean paste
Chia Pudding
1000g coconut milk (homemade recipe here), or buy the preservative-free coconut cream and mix half and half with water
90g chia seeds
2 Tbsp raw honey
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground ginger (opt)
1/4 tsp ground cardamom (opt)
1 tsp vanilla bean powder or vanilla bean paste
To Serve
thick coconut cream (see below)
honey to drizzle
extra cinnamon and nutmeg
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Wash, hull and halve the strawberries and place in a large baking dish.
3. Drizzle with honey, add vanilla, and mix in. Spread strawberries out over the base of the dish so they are in a single layer.
4. Cook for 20 mins, or until strawberries are soft and juicy, and juices are beginning to caramelise around the edges.
5. Set aside to cool.
Chia Pudding
1. Place all pudding ingredients into the bowl and mix 5 sec/speed 3.
2. Cook 5 mins/37C/speed 2.
3. Remove pudding to a dish and place in the fridge until ready to assemble.
To Assemble
1. Place 2-3 Tbsp pudding in the base of each glass.
2. Add 2 Tbsp of roasted strawberries.
3. Repeat layers, finishing with strawberries, with a dollop of coconut cream on top, a drizzle of honey, and a sprinkle of spices.
For the thick coconut cream
1. There’s a recipe for thick coconut cream in my cookbook, or you can chill a tin of thick cream in the fridge, then open it carefully without shaking; remove thick cream from the top of the tin, and whisk in a little vanilla bean powder or paste by hand, until smooth.
Notes
Puddings may be made a few hours ahead and stored in the fridge until ready to serve.
Or leave off coconut cream until ready to serve, and the puddings with strawberries will last up to 5 days in the fridge, sealed in jars for ready-to-go snacks!
If you don’t have a Thermomix, mix together chia pudding ingredients and place them in the fridge to ‘gel’ for a least an hour.