A good friend recently stayed with us who happens to be a vegan. This made me a little nervous, as I was completely unsure of what to cook for the week. Thankfully she had a plethora of vegan recipes under her belt to share with us carnivores.
The recipe below is a breakfast she made for us and, I have to say, is fantastic!
It is a three-part recipe that doesn’t take as long as it suggests.
Ingredients
Oats (quick or traditional)
Soy Milk
SLAPS (nut mix of Sesame, Linseed, Almonds, Papita and Sunflower)
Maple Syrup (honey can be used a substitute)
Kiwi Fruit
Strawberries
1 large can of pears including juice
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
1 cup of raw cashews
Directions:
Part 1 – SLAPS
Choose your quantities of the above-mentioned nuts/seeds and grind into a rough powder. My friend uses a coffee grinder for the perfect result…her 2 year old loves it and has affectionately named it DIRT. Freeze whatever you don’t use for optimum shelf life.
Part 2 – Pear Cream
In a blender, combine the pears, juice, cashews and vanilla. Blend until you have created a frothy crème…this should not be grainy. If you think you’ve blended enough, give it another wiz and that should do it. You can refrigerate this for a maximum of 3 days.
Part 3 – Porridge & Fruit
Cook your porridge in a saucepan with equal parts soy milk and water to get your preferred consistency. Chop up the fruit.
Fill your bowl to half with the porridge and dust generously with the SLAPS mix. Add the desired amount of fruit, drizzle with maple syrup then pour the pear crème on top.
This wholesome breakfast will charge your batteries for whatever the day holds! Enjoy.
Michaela.
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Most of the population can identify with the response of ‘erk no…’ when reading the title of this post. Having said that, reading through the recipe it sounds ok. Not something I would be happy to have every day, but ok. For me vegan eating holds an equal amount of respect and bewilderment. Respect, because I know I couldn’t do it no matter how much I believed in the philosophy and bewilderment because I cannot imagine a day without dairy.
Laughing Amy, I couldn’t imagine a day without dairy either! I think this sounds fab I may give it a go.
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