Mango Chia Pudding with Micro Fruit Salad and Agar Jelly
 
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Serves: 4-8
Ingredients
  • 1. For the mango chia pudding:
  • Prep time: 4 hrs 10 mins
  • This can be made the day before
  • ½ cup ripe mango
  • ½ cup coconut milk
  • ¼ cup chia seeds (buy on iherb or amazon)
  • 2 tbsp maple syrup (buy on iherb or amazon)
  • 2. For the coconut water agar jelly:
  • This can be made a couple days ahead
  • 1 cup of coconut water (filtered water is ok, I prefer coconut water as it is more nutritious)
  • 1 tsp agar powder (buy on iherb or amazon)
  • 1 tbsp sweetener of choice (maple, honey or coconut sugar works well - coconut sugar will make the agar brown)
Instructions
  1. For the mango chia pudding:
  2. Place the mango and coconut milk in the blender or magic bullet and puree
  3. Pour mango puree in a small mixing bowl with maple syrup and chia seedsMix well and divide equally into serving glasses (I would recommend a shallow wide mouth glass, the glasses I used are pretty for the photo but hard to get to the pudding underneath the fruit :)
  4. Allow to set for 4 hours or overnight, continue to make the agar jelly
  5. For the coconut water agar jelly:
  6. Find a glass container that is large enough for 1 cup of liquid to sit about 5mm thick (you can test this by pouring 1 cup of water in the container)
  7. Mix all ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a gentle boil
  8. Simmer for 5 minutes until dissolved
  9. Pour into a glass container large enough so the agar jelly
  10. Allow to cool then move to the fridge
  11. This is best made on the day to avoid the juices from the fruit accumulating. You can use any fruit that is in season, I recommend about 5 different fruit for colour, flavour and texture and about ½ to 1 cup of each fruit.
  12. For the micro fruit salad with agar jelly:
  13. Start this step once your mango chia pudding has set for at least 4 hours.
  14. finely dice your fruit of choice into 5mm cubes (about ½ to 1 cup per fruit) some suggested fruit are watermelon, strawberries, blueberries, grapes, pear, apple, pineapple, kiwi, dragonfruit and mango
  15. the agar jelly should now be set, remove from the container and finely dice into 5mm cubes
  16. Mix the fruit and agar jelly together
  17. Divide the fruit salad over the agar jelly, you want to have at least the same thickness of fruit as the mango chia pudding
  18. You should have some micro fruit salad left over which can be stored in a container for a day or eaten on its own
  19. I've had many non paleo / non real food guests love this as a dessert and we have had leftovers the next day for breakfast! It is well worth the three stages :)
Recipe by Intuitive Food Design at https://intuitivefooddesign.com/food_recipe/mango-chia-pudding-with-micro-fruit-salad-and-agar-jelly/