Today, Karolina, my cute pregger friend, extremely talented chef (actually a chef to the Stars!) and writer came over for a quick dip in the pool and a green smoothie on the roof.
We didn’t end up making it to the roof, but we ate in my kitchen overlooking the sunflowers she brought over…and shared a delicious raspberry vegan muffin and a whole wheat croissant from Birdbath Bakery topped with some delicious Sunflower Butter, a side of cut-up farmer’s market plums, dragon fruit and a Banana- Chocolate- Peanut Butter Green Smoothie!
Home-made Chia-Hemp-Almond Milk!
The smoothie was going to be made of store-bought Hemp milk, banana, raw cacao, peanut butter and frozen spinach …until I was about to pour the hemp milk into the blender and she mentioned that she’s been making her own. So, I made my own…on the spot… with her direction!
Fresh and home-made chia-hemp-almond milk!
Here’s Chef Karolina’s protein-packed, creamy hemp-chia-almond milk recipe:
Ingredients:
– 2 TBS chia seeds
– 2 TBS hemp seeds
– 1/2 cup almond meal (or soaked almonds, cashews, brazil nuts)
– 2 TBS sweetener of choice (honey, coconut palm sugar, raw agave, maple syrup, stevia) (optional)
– vanilla extract (optional)
– cinnamon (optional)
– water
Place all ingredients into blender, fill up blender 3/4 way up with water and blend for 2-6 minutes until creamy. (Amount of time will depend on how powerful your blender is so test it out).
Please note- chia and hemp seeds are optional.
To make regular cashew milk, almond milk or brazil nut milk, place 1 cup raw cashews/1 cup soaked almonds, 3 cups water, 1/4 tsp vanilla extract, 1/2 tsp Cinnamon, 1 tsp Agave Nectar/stevia/honey/maple syrup into blender and blend 2-6 minutes until creamy.
Helps energize and refuel your muscles and good for your heart, joints and blood pressure. High in Omega 3s, full of protein, iron, calcium, fiber and electrolytes. Great to add to your pre-work cereal, post-swim smoothie or a night-time snack with cookies!
Stay tuned for an Arielle and Chef Karolina cooking lesson. In the works for September 2011!
Enjoy!
xo
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