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Lemon Curd Chia Pudding. 5 Ingredient Thick Lemon Coconut Milk Turmeric Pudding with Chia seeds. This zesty pudding is a refreshing treat for Summer. Serve with whipped coconut cream. Vegan gluten-free nut-free soy-free Recipe. Pin this for later.
Its been getting cooler the past few days and I was wondering where the Summer went. Hint, remember the 2 weeks of unbreable heat? That was the PNW summer. Oh wait, the heat is back later this week.
On some of the super hot days, we all need something to refresh and fill us up for a snack or breakfast. Cue Lemon + chia! Lemon zest and juice and mixed with full fat coconut milk and sweetener. Then some chia seeds are mixed in to make it into a thick creamy pudding. Add some vanilla or other flavors of choice.
The lemon zest + juice + coconut milk + sweetener is super delicious by itself and can substitute as a thinner lemon curd when chilled. Chia seeds make it into one filling and delicious pudding or treat. Add more or less turmeric for the color or to make a Turmeric Lemon Chia Pudding. Be sure to let the chia seeds sit for a while for best results. And also hydrate well (drink water!) when eating decent amount of chia seeds in pudding or other form.
Serve with a dollop of coconut cream or whipped coconut or non dairy cream and a sprinkle of lemon zest. For variation, use lime juice and lime zest or lime bar pudding. So easy and so Good!
More summery treats from the blog. All GF
- Mango Mojito
- Orange cream floats
- Vegan Cookie dough Blizzard
- Mocha Milk shake
- Brownie Batter Chia Smoothie
This recipe is also in my second cookbook! Loads of meals and meals and some desserts in Vegan Richa’s Everyday Kitchen.
On another note, how hard it is to photograph chia seed puddings!
Lemon Curd Chia Pudding
Ingredients
- Zest of a large lemon, or 2 small lemons
- Juice of 2 large lemons
- 13.5 or 15 oz can full fat coconut milk, about 1.5 cups
- 1/4 cup water, optional
- 3 tbsp or more sweetener, I use raw sugar
- a good pinch of salt
- 1/4 tsp or more turmeric
- 3 tbsp or more chia seeds, 5 to 6 tbsp for well set pudding
Instructions
- Blend the lemon zest, juice, coconut milk, water, sweetener, salt and turmeric until well combined. Add chia seeds and pulse once or twice to distribute the chia seeds well.
- Taste and adjust sweet and tang. Add more lemon juice or zest to taste and mix/blend in.
- Pour the mixture into glasses. Chill overnight in the refrigerator. Stir once after an hour or so to distribute the chia seeds if needed.
- Garnish with whipped coconut cream and lemon zest and serve.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I’m TOTALLY not ready for the summer to be over too! This definitely looks like a wonderful recipe to make for August!
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Does it set like a mousse/cheesecake consistency? I don’t like too gooey or slippery textures. Love your recipe pages, thanks xx
Its a chia pudding consistency. If you keep it for a few hours, then its more runny and overnight or a day later the chia seed absorb a lot of the liquid so its like a thick pudding. For a mousse like consistency, use 4 tbsp chia seeds and blend them in the lemon coconut milk until they break down. This mixture after it chills will be more like a mousse. If the texture just doent work for you, blend it into more non dairy milk to make a smoothie or make cupcakes with the mixture.
Make cupcakes? I’m intrigued. Would you just bake it as is or add some starch/flour?
You can use this recipe https://www.veganricha.com/2016/06/1-bowl-vegan-mango-cupcakes.html and use the pudding + sweetener instead of the wet. I have a muffin recipe coming up shortly on the blog as well
Hi Richa, this is such a nice recipe. My absolutely fav smoothie is my Lemon cashew smoothie. I add cashews as well instead of chia. Need to try out your Version hon. xoxo Janine
When do you add the turmeric? I don’t see that in the recipe instructions.
its blended in with the lemon. The pudding is chilled in the refrigerator overnight. updated the recipe. sometimes some instructions stay in my head while writing the post 🙂
Do you let it set in the refrigerator or out overnight?
Going to make this for a work meeting in a couple of weeks! Looks delicious… thank you!!
quantity of lemon juice (so I can make the lime variation) would be so helpful…I’m drooling on the pic right now!! My hubby loves lemon anytime
start with 3 tbsp and add more to taste after that.
lovely, Im mixing it now!!
I just made this today and it is fantastic!
yay!!!
This looks great. Is the chia pudding firm or a bit runny once set?
And yes…so hard to photograph!!
its somewhere in between. For a more set pudding, add another tbsp chia seeds. It will also depend on how long the chia seeds take to hydrate.
hi, I want to go vegan but what are the starcch content of these dishes as nwell as calorie count sylvia
Hi sylvia, you can copy the ingredient list into myfitnesspal.com or caloriecounter.com to find the nutrition content.
I would think that you should have posted the nutritional content, since this is your post!!
Its already posted below the recipe. It was added in 2017.
This looks so yummy! The chia seeds will gel more if you chop them; I have a coffee grinder that I use only to chop chia seeds because i use them so often. Thank you so much for all your wonderful recipes.
Thanks, Denise. Definitely will give that a try.