Our Chia Seeds pudding is a delicious and deeply nourishing way to start your day. This protein packed combination of super foods can be made smooth and creamy or left with a bit of crunch. It provides highly accessible protein and plenty of omega 3 essential fatty acids. It will also help regulate your bowels and satisfy your cravings for something sweet and creamy.
Chia seeds have been used as a power and endurance food for thousands of years in Mexico and South America. The word “chia” is the Mayan word for strength. Warriors and fleet-footed messengers of the Aztec and Mayan civilisations used chia seeds to keep in top shape. Today they are used by runners and athletes who want a clean healthy source of power and endurance.
Chia seeds help to control blood sugar, reduce sugar cravings and promote hydration. They have an amazing ability to absorb 9-12 times their weight in water. Eating these soaked seeds can help you prolong hydration and retain electrolytes, especially during exertion. When the whole seeds are added to water or other liquids they become gelatinous, forming a delightful natural pudding consistency.
Chia Seeds Pudding Recipe
Ingredients:
1/4 cup Chia Seeds
1/4 cup dried coconut, shredded & unsweetened
1 cup unsweetened almond, hemp or other nut milk
4 dates, pitted
1/4 tsp. vanilla bean powder
1/8 tsp. powdered ginger
1/8 tsp. cinnamon
Add any of the following super food nutrition: 1 Tbsp. cacao powder
Preparation:
Place whole chia and shredded coconut, if using, into a bowl.
Put the almond milk, dates, spices and vanilla in the blender and mix until smooth
Pour the blended milk over seeds, stir and let sit for 10-15 minutes, or overnight in the refrigerator.
Pudding will have a slight crunch after 10 minutes, but will be soft and smooth the next day. Will store for 4-5 days in the refrigerator.
Serve cold or at room temperature, topped with fresh fruit, if desired.
You can also enjoy it with a beautiful morning view from our Santosa Restaurant in our Detox Center in Phuket.
Even those who do not choose to be entirely vegan or vegetarian, can gain huge nutritional benefit from eating meat-free meals. The strain put on our digestive systems from consuming too much animal based protein and fat is palpable, not to mention the ethical and environmental impacts that go hand in hand with the consumption of meat.
With farming methods becoming less ethical, the process of stock being reared and slaughtered and arriving on our plates has become so disconnected that it is almost impossible to be truly mindful about our consumption. If we knew what occurred before the hygienic, plastic packaged version, would we really continue to consume animals today?
Complete Proteins
“Complete” proteins, are proteins that contain all 9 essential amino acids in equal amounts. The reason that we need to eat these ‘building blocks’ of protein, is because the human body is unable to produce them on its own. The nutritional excuse of needing meat based protein is no longer a valid one – and to prove this we have compiled a list of COMPLETE plant based protein sources. Even if you can’t cut out animal based consumption completely – at least you can trade a few meals for cleaner, plant based counterparts.
The 10 BEST Sources
Quinoa: Protein, 8 grams per 1 cup serving, cooked
Buckwheat: Protein, 6 grams per 1 cup serving, cooked
Hempseed: Protein, 10 grams per 2 tablespoon serving
Chia: Protein, 4 grams per 2 tablespoon serving
Soy: Protein, 10 grams per ½ cup serving (firm tofu)
15 grams per ½ cup serving (tempeh)
15 grams per ½ cup serving (natto)
Mycoprotein (Quorn): Protein, 13 grams per ½ cup serving
Rice and Beans: Protein, 7 grams per 1 cup serving
Ezekiel Bread: Protein, 8 grams per 2 slice serving
Seitan: Protein, 21 grams per 1/3 cup serving
Hummus and Pita: Protein, 7 grams per 1 whole-wheat pita and 2 tablespoons of hummus
Most of these protein healthy food are served on a daily basis at Santosa Restaurant in the heart of our Detox Center in Phuket, for you to come and enjoy any day of the week!
For all the pasta lovers looking for a raw and vegan alternative, here’s our Raw Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce Recipe. You can now learn it and do it at home by following these six steps.
Ingredients
2 Garlic Cloves
2-4 Shallot
3 Tomato
1 Cup Cherry tomato
Dry tomato
2 Zucchini
1 Celery
Dressing: Olive Oil, Natural salt, white pepper powder, lemon Juice, red wine vinegar, apple vinegar
Preparation
Step 1: Cut garlic and shallot into small pieces
Step 2: Cut celery, tomato and cherry tomato into pieces
Step 3: Add salt, olive oil and some red wine vinegar, if you like spicy, you could also add Manoj’s secret spice.
Step 4. Add water and dry tomato, mix in the mixer, raw tomato sauce is ready
Step 5: start making raw spaghetti by cutting the zucchini in very thin slices, add a little olive oil, salt, white pepper powder and mix with apple vinegar.
Step 6: Use a fork to put the raw spaghetti into a plate, add dry tomato, cherry tomato as decoration and the raw tomato sauce on top.
Now you can enjoy this at home and for more amazing raw recipes you can book a cooking class with us at Santosa directed by our own Head Chef Manoj or try all the delicious raw and vegetarian food delivered at our Restaurant in Phuket.
This fresh green vegetable juice is jam packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes and phytonutrients that have an instant impact on the body, within minutes of consuming.
Benefits of Green Juice
Green juice has long been known as one of the magical secrets to anti-ageing and optimal cellular health, and one of the biggest reasons for this is the green pigment found within, chlorophyll.
Almost identical in molecular structure to hemoglobin, or blood! Chlorphyll assists the body to produce healthy red blood cells, and oxygenates the blood, which is one of the key defining factors of efficient cell function, organ detoxification and cleansing.
Cancer fighting, and full of free radicals, green juice also assists to keep intestines health intact, has an antiseptic effect on the body, is anti-inflammatory and can regulate blood sugar levels. One of its more interesting attributes is that sufficient consumption can have a naturally deodorizing effect on the sweat glands. Does this mean that the emerald goodness found within the Spring Clean Juice just got sexy?!
Important to our detox center, one of the most noticeable benefits of green juice consumption is the inherently alkalizing effect on the body. Helping to combat disease and inflammation by reducing the acid levels in our bodily environments, the simple addition of green juice every day can help flood the body with health reversing goodness and create cellular utopia.
This green juice’s ingredients are kale, mint, parsley or celery and kiwi, it doesn’t contain fructose, which is increasingly being the blame for the rise of a number of health related issues, not to mention glycation, which is a key part of the internal processes that make us look older.
To ramp up your health and make your internal bio-chemistry a priority, get on the green bandwagon. The Spring Clean juice is a perfect combination of dark leafy goodness, and does just what the name entails, deeply cleansing your insides, giving an injection of natural energy like no other!
Why not try it at Santosa’s Juice Bar in Phuket? Just like us, we are sure that you’ll adopt it straight away!
Beans and lentils have long been a staple of vegetarian fare… often considered a meat replacement, because of their high protein content. Not to mention, they are very filling and tasty too! Did you know that beans and legumes are one of nature’s secrets to stabilising blood sugar and lowering cholesterol?
It is reported that those who suffer from type 2 diabetes are able to improve both blood sugar levels and blood pressure when they make this simple addition to their diets! This is because beans and lentils slow down digestion and change the way that the body absorbs carbohydrates. The insoluble dietary fiber does more than just help our glycemic index, it promotes good digestion and aides in weight loss. Containing a staggering list of vitamins and minerals, including molybdenum, folate, fiber, copper, phosphorus, manganese, iron, protein, vitamin B1, pantothenic acid, zinc, potassium andvitamin B6, beans and lentils really do nourish the body, whilst providing essential nutrients and supporting good health overall.
Chef’s recommendation
Santosa have perfected the ultimate soup, delivering plant-based protein and taste-bud titillation…. Simply delectable and delightfully digestible, our ‘Bean & Lentil Soup’ is fast becoming the most popular item on our menu – even superseding our Raw Chocolate Fudge. Come in and try it for yourself today!
However, if you want to try it at home you could do so with the following ingredients:
At Santosa, guests can use their free time to relax and disconnect from the stresses of the outside world by joining our free classes, taking a swim or a relaxing ice bath after a sauna.
Santosa Spa is truly an extension of our ethics; to take you on a sensual and luxurious journey. Our treatments nurture and support the connection between body, mind and spirit.
Shirodara & Ayurvedic - Thai Herbal Compress - Hot Stone - Cupping Therapy - Infrared Dome Sauna - Ion Cleanse Foot Bath - Epsom Salt Foot SPA and Foot Scrub
