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This could be your go-to recipe for dessert or even breakfast. Ready to learn how you can make the best chocolate chia pudding recipe? Let’s get started!
What You Need For This Recipe
To make this overnight chocolate chia pudding recipe you need the following ingredients:
- Milk – use unsweetened almond milk
- Chia seeds
- Dates – to sweeten this dessert
- Cacao powder
- Cinnamon
- Salt
- Fruit – to garnish the pudding
Note that the full ingredients list, including measurements, can be found in the recipe card below.
How To Make Chocolate Chia Pudding
- Start by slicing the dates into small pieces. Put the unsweetened almond milk in the blender and add the diced dates.
- When combined add the cacao powder and let the blender whisk.
- Now it is time to add the chia seeds, cinnamon, and salt. Whisk the ingredients on low speed for about 1 minute.
- The ingredients will become slightly thick. Pour the chocolate chia pudding into glasses and cover it with cling film.
- Put in the fridge to set overnight. Decorate with a tablespoon of quark, slices of banana, fresh raspberries, or blueberries.
- If you do not want to blend either chop the dates up finely or buy some date powder to substitute the dates. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix them.
- Pour in a glass cover with cling film and let it sit overnight. You will see how the chia seeds absorb the liquid from the almond when you do not use your blender.
You can make chocolate chia pudding with or without a bender. As I am using dates as the natural sweetener and I want to distribute the flavor of the almonds evenly I used a blender.
However, you can decide to not blend the pudding at all. It only requires a few steps to make this basic chia pudding recipe.
Fruit Options To Decorate Your Chia Pudding
Fruit makes the flavors come out of this basic chia pudding even more. Take a look at which fruits you can use in this recipe:
- Banana – everything tastes better with banana so slice up a banana and put it on top of your pudding.
- Raspberries – this red summer fruit goes great with chocolate so you can’t miss it if you use raspberries.
- Apple pie filling – if you have apple pie filling in the fridge you will love it with this chia pudding.
- Oranges – another fruit that goes great with chocolate is orange or mandarin. So, either in the same slices or add some of the juice when mixing the pudding.
You can also add some homemade crunchy granola for additional flavor and extra bite.
Sweet Dessert Recipe
If you do not like off-the-shelf pudding or looking for a vegan pudding then this is your recipe. It is also naturally sweetened and sugar-free so if you are on a sugar-free diet you can eat this as well.
The main ingredient is chia seeds. A neutral-tasting seed that when it comes into contact with liquid increases in size. That is why you need some time after you put this recipe together.
To keep it dairy-free you will be making pudding with almond milk and turning it into, overnight chia pudding.
Other Dessert Recipes
If you like delicious desserts then you have to take a look at all of these easy dessert recipes and give them a try:
- Banana Nutella quesadillas – another delicious sweet treat made with homemade Nutella
- Sopapilla cheesecake – a yummy dessert that is quick and easy to make
- Bunuelos – a lovely fried tortilla dessert with cream cheese
- Tortilla cups – a sweet dessert made with tortillas
- Apple pie enchiladas – if you love apple pie filling turn it into an apple enchilada
- Dessert empanadas – tasty sweet empanadas with blueberry and cream cheese
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Chocolate Chia Pudding
The best chocolate chia pudding. This basic recipe is so easy to make this could be your go-to recipe for dessert or even breakfast.
Ingredients
- 1½ cups unsweetened almond milk
- ⅓ cup chia seeds
- ¼ cup cacao powder
- 6-8 dates chopped and pitted
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder
- Pinch of salt
- Optional banana, raspberries or blue berries
Instructions
- Pit and chop the dates
- Pour the almond milk and dates in the blender and whisk for about 30 seconds
- Add the cacao powder and whisk a couple of times to combine it with the milk
- Then add the chia seeds, cinnamon powder and salt
- Now blend for 1 to 2 minutes. The mixture will get thick
- Pour into glasses, cover with cling film and put in the fridge overnight
- Decorate with banana, raspberries or blue berries
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Nutrition facts
Calories: 182; Fat: 9.2g; Carbs: 33.8g; Protein: 7.5g;
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