Chia Breakfast Parfait | A Wonderful Way To Get Protein
Mango chia parfait for Darwin’s upcoming mango season.
Chia seed parfait recipe options.
Plus, the many benefits of a chia parfait recipe with any fruit you love.
Chia breakfast parfait? Use this chia seed parfait recipe to make a combined blueberry chia parfait, mango chia parfait, or delicious parfait with chia seeds mixes. Plus, use coconut yogurt to create an easy chia seed yogurt parfait.
Parfait is another French word that’s been widely adopted in the West. These days, at least in Australia, a parfait is simply any layered dessert in a taller glass.
It’s also a great way to get you a serious part of your daily protein requirements. Chia seeds contain from 15-19% protein, plus a wide mix of other great nutrients.
That’s why chia seeds deliver all the many benefits you see in the diagram further down this page.
The word “chia” actually means strength in the ancient Mayan language.
Plus, in the diagram below, you can see all the benefits that protein delivers.
Some of the benefits of chia and other protein
This blueberry chia parfait is another delicious way to ensure you get all the benefits of protein. such as those in the diagram.
The many benefits of a chia parfait recipe
If all the many benefits shown in the diagram below, seem a little too wonderful, then confirm them with a web search.
That’s what I did.
And I confirmed that all these many benefits do stack up.
So, chia has become another important part of my plant based diet.
Chia breakfast parfait benefits
Chia breakfast parfait, or at any other time of day, are another great way to get all these chia seed benefits.
Ingredients: breakfast chia parfait
Here are the main ingredients of the sorts of chia parfaits we’ve been enjoying.
Obviously, the exact mix depends on whether you prefer a blueberry chia parfait, or mango chia parfait, or whatever.
- chia seeds…4 dessert spoons
- half cup blueberries
- a tsp. of vanilla extract or one vanilla pod
- a quarter tsp. cinnamon
- a squeeze of lemon juice
- 3 quarters of cup of a 50:50 mix of plant based milk (like Soy or Oat milk), and coconut milk
- fresh fruits as desired like mango, strawberries, banana, kiwi fruit.
If you want, use any other fruit of your choice to eat with it, plus coconut yogurt.
Enjoy a chia breakfast parfait, loaded with protein.
The blueberry chia parfait starts at the very bottom of these glasses. Then, add whatever mix of fresh fruit layers you like best, or that are in season. The coconut yogurt on top also givens you a chia seed yogurt parfait.
Lunch in a glass
When I first came to the Northern Territory, someone told me about how a stubby of beer was seen by some as lunch in a bottle!
Well, this chia breakfast parfait is something you can have for lunch, or a delicious dessert, and maybe even a quick meal, anytime.
A meal in a glass!
Use a taller glass is your especially hungry, or you want it as almost complete meal. That’s scrumptious coconut yoghurt on top. A chia breakfast parfait can fit anywhere in your day.
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Please let me know if you also like this vegetarian breakfast or dessert. You can comment below.
Plus, please contact me with any other dishes you’d like to share with me, or with others in our Flametree Yoga Studio community.
By the way, there’s also a new Couples Retreat, in January 2025, where you can also come to appreciate the delights of vegetarian eating.
Learn more about plant based eating at a retreat
My appreciation of the many benefits of plant based protein increased dramatically on Flametree Yoga retreats in Bali. Over Xmas 2024, and January, there are two upcoming retreats. Check them out at our Bali retreats pages.
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Meanwhile, enjoy some a chia breakfast parfait, loaded with protein.
