Remember the black-and-white layered puddings cups of your childhood? This impressive chia pudding recipe by Melissa Parke Rousseau of M.Parke Studio is a major upgrade to your former lunch box staple: it’s jam-packed with some of our favorite superfoods de jour, like mood-enhancing matcha, digestive-aiding ashitaba, and hormoning-supporting pine pollen. Is it too much to say this pudding is a solution to all the things? Because it kind of is. Here’s Melissa with a few notes on the recipe that puts that ’90s “snack pack” to shame…
It’s 95 degrees. It’s muggy. It’s slow-moving, slow-living time. I keep my food simple, clean, on the cooler side and mostly raw during these steamy months. Whenever I get that craving for old-school tapioca, I now turn to chia puddings – and just for this late summer heat, add in some of my favorite superfoods and tonic herbs to up its healing powers. I added matcha green tea for its high fiber content, to boost metabolism, to help with detoxification, to calm and enhance my mood and to help fight viruses and bacteria. I combined that with some ashitaba, a wonderful source of B12, a skin nourisher, digestive tonic and spirit lifter. To finish it off, I added my favorite strawberry glaze – with a touch of hormone-supporting and liver-detoxifying pine pollen.
Matcha Chia Pudding with Strawberry Glaze
Ingredients:
For the chia pudding:
2 cups coconut milk
5-6 Tbsp chia seeds
3 Tbsp matcha green-tea powder
1 Tbsp ashitaba
stevia to taste
pink salt to taste
For the strawberry pine-pollen glaze:
7 organic strawberries
3 Tbsp coconut water
1 tsp pine pollen
pinch pink salt
stevia, if you want it sweeter
Directions:
For the chia pudding:
Combine and let sit in the fridge overnight.
For the strawberry pine-pollen glaze:
Combine ingredients in high-speed blender. Adjust liquid as necessary.
To assemble:
In a bowl, alternate chilled chia pudding and strawberry glaze. Top with hemp seeds and watermelon seeds (as shown here) or any other topping you prefer.
Would love it if in future, TCM could present some Chia Pudding Recipes that are great for Iron Deficiency 🙂