CLEAN EATING #10 – Two Layer Smoothie
It is unbelievable how I came back from LA to Singapore on Jan 1st 2014 (New Year), went to Jakarta on Jan 30th (Lunar New Year), came back to Singapore on Feb 3rd and back to Jakarta on Feb 9th (totally unplanned!!!). I booked my one way air ticket on the day itself. Initially, I did not know when will I be back to Singapore but perhaps after my birthday next week? Anyway, greetings from Indonesia! I will be updating about day 7 (Dec 19th 2013) of my clean eating program today!
BOTTOM LAYER OF THE SMOOTHIE:
For this clean eating meal, I decided to make a two layered smoothie so the above two pictures depicts the ingredients of the bottom layer of my drink:
1/4 cup of chia seeds1 cup of unsweetened almond milk2 tablespoon of cacao powdera pinch of cinnamongoji berries (I put A LOT OF GOJI BERRIES – it was uncountable – roughly 3-4 cups of it?)2 tablespoon of maca powder
So because of the crazy amount of dried ingredients that I put in for the bottom layer of the smoothie, it did not taste good at all!! The cacao tastes was too strong, unlike my Cherry Chocolate Smoothie. The dried ingredients (goji berries, chia seeds, maca powder and cacao powder) were too much so it absorbed 1 cup of the almond milk, making the mix very thick and dry. I really enjoy experimenting with food so from my analysis, the correct recipe should be the following:
- 1/4 cup of chia seeds
- 1 cup of unsweetened almond milk
- 1 tablespoon of cacao powder
- a pinch of cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon of goji berries
- 1 teaspoon of maca powder
This recipe would have made the drink perfect!
TOP LAYER OF THE SMOOTHIE:
As for the top layer of my drink, it was well done! Good things should be shared so the recipe is as follows:
- 2 teaspoon of almond butter
- 2 teaspoon of red quinoa
- a handful of cashew nuts
- 1/2 cup of honey greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup of almond milk
- 1 banana
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 1 weetabix
Decided to top my smoothie with goji berries and a pinch of cinnamon and there you go – a perfect breakfast smoothie 1-2 hours post workout!
I believe that I have already wrote already wrote about the benefits of most of the ingredients listed in this entry on my previous clean eating entries. However if you have noticed, I have added a new ingredient yet to be talked about and that is none other than ALMOND BUTTER, which will be elaborated in my other clean eating entry so stay tuned!
