We made this chocolate chia seed pudding on Facebook the other day and it was a hit. The chia pudding is so easy and perfect for breakfast meal prep.
Add some yogurt, berries, and perhaps some granola and you have the perfect chia seed pudding parfait.
How To Make Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding
This recipe for chia seed pudding only takes a few minutes to make. Add the coconut and almond milk to a large bowl along with the cacao powder, maple syrup, vanilla, and salt. Whisk well and check for seasoning.
Cacao is raw and completely unprocessed, while cocoa is bake. Either one is fine, but I like to use raw cacao for this chia pudding recipe.
Slowly add the chia seeds to the liquid and whisk very well. If you add the seed to quickly they will stick to each other and won’t thicken the pudding correctly.
After the chia seeds are in, whisk very well and wait five minutes then whisk again. Wait for minutes more and give it one final whisk then transfer to the fridge for at least 3 hours or overnight.
How To Make A Chia Seed Parfait
For the chocolate chia seed pudding I used dairy free yogurt. The best brands on the market are Lavva(I like vanilla), Kite Hill greek style plain. If using dairy yogurt, look for full fat 100% grass-fed yogurt. Maple Hill and Stonyfield are top quality.
When buying fresh or froze berries, you realy want to get organic. Berries are always on the dirty dozen and sprayed with lots of nasty chemicals.
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Can’t wait to try this.
I thought Agave was a NONO on Keto?
Hi Patti, this recipe is not for the keto diet. Here’s the chia seed pudding that is keto approved: https://www.flavcity.com/low-carb-keto-breakfast-meal-prep/
What size jars were those 16 or 8 oz. Thanks!
Hi Dempsey, these are 8oz jars for the chia seed pudding.
On your video you mentioned a quinoa breakfast bowl, but I couldn’t find it listed on the links or when I went to the website. Could you give be a link to it, please?
Hi Laneta, I will post a recipe blog for the quinoa bowl, but in the meantime, it’s just on the video: https://youtu.be/R20iR_Ac2Tk?t=83
so I tried the chia pudding but even after hours in the fridge it is “runny”….. any ideas for thickener other than adding more chia seeds?
Lianne, try adding 2 more tablespoons of chia seeds and make sure to wisk/mix very very well.
I had the same problem after being in the fridge for over 3 hours and adding extra chia still really watery. Couldn’t make this work 🙁 and followed the recipe to the T
Sorry that you have been having difficulties. 3 hours is not enough. Ideally you’d leave it in the fridge in overnight. After you whisk it really well, you should let it sit for about 10 minutes and then whisk it really well once again and then stash it in the fridge overnight.
I have heard that if the chia seeds are not fresh they will fail to thicken—anyone else?
That might be the case if they are expired.
Hi Bobby,
I found your channel a few weeks ago, LOVE IT!! My only question is this…. I know you have macro breakdowns in each recipe, as well as the number of meals each recipe makes… but …and this may seem like a silly question… do you just kinda estimate each portion or is there an actual breakdown in grams per item per container?? For example… in the Chia seed pudding recipe , how much of the chia seed mix per container??
Timothy, I don’t have the exact grams, but the meal prep makes 5 servings, so the macros listed are for 1 serving.
Made this today and the pudding is not thickening. What did I do wrong? I wanted this for breakfast tomorrow.
Add two more tablespoons of chia seeds. Sometimes the chia seeds can be fickle if you don’t whisk them hard enough at the beginning.
Love your site….You are a walking book of knowledge. Thanks for all the sharing you bless us with. I go to Costco and Sam’s a lot and was really glad of the knowledge you shared about different products. Thank you so much…Barb in Ontario Canada
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