This Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding recipe is rich, chocolatey, and sneaks in a whole serving of greens! This vegan and gluten free recipe can be made in 10 minutes!
Sneaky Greens Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding.
What a name on this one.
I thought about calling this “Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding.” It sounds great, but what about that healthy punch of greens!?
But calling it “Green Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding” seems a touch too healthy. Like, what if I can taste those greens? What if I can see those greens? What if this is not the delicious, creamy, chocolatey breakfast of our dreams?! (Spoiler alert: It is :)
Hence, Sneaky Greens Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding was named. It is all the flavor of chocolate, and all the health benefits of the greens.
Which, for the record, you cannot cannot cannot taste. Like wait, there are GREENS in my Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding?!
This absolute magic happens because we blend the spinach until it is broken down into a teeny tiny million-bazillion-hundred-trillion small pieces, before swirling it into the chia seeds. These tiny pieces give our bods TONS of nutrition, and our tastebuds zero flavor.
And if you are worried about texture, like the sad mornings when we don’t blend our green smoothies 100% smooth and have little floating chunks of green leaves that cling to the roof of our mouth and get stuck in our teeth, have no fear. The spinach is blended with creamy coconut milk, and buttery avocado (more vegetables!), for a super creamy no-green-fleck texture.
Just don’t be afraid to blend blend blend. Your Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding and dental floss will thank you.
This Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding, of course, has the benefit of being a no-cook breakfast. Just pop the mixture into the fridge and let it do its thing overnight. The chia seeds
plump up, the pudding thickens and gets a mouse like texture. The only thing left to do is layer on the toppings.
And let’s chat about Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding topping options 101:
- Fresh fruit – like juicy, fresh, sweet SPRING fruit is hereeeeee!
- Nuts
and seeds – crunch, texture, some healthy fats, come at me. - Granola – who wouldn’t granola in this situation?
- Freeze dried fruit – my current obsession of crunchy fruit that gets sprinkled on ALL THE THINGS!
Sneaking in those greens.
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This Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding recipe is rich, chocolatey, and sneaks in a whole serving of greens! This vegan and gluten free recipe can be made in 10 minutes!
Ingredients
- 1 large avocado
- 2 cups spinach
- 2 cups coconut milk ((from a carton))
- 1/4 cup raw cacao powder
- 2–4 tablespoons maple syrup (, adjusted to taste)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chia seeds
Instructions
- Add all the ingredients, except the chia seeds, into a blender and blend until silky smooth, scraping down the sides as needed.
- Pour the mixture into a bowl and whisk in the chia seeds. Cover and let chill in the fridge for 4 hours, or until the chia seeds have plumped up. Serve with desired toppings.
Beautiful! Looks yummy! Love adding the veggies into the chocolate :)
★★★★★
Thank you Lauren! There is something about getting in a full serving of greens before 10am that makes me feel so accomplished!