Vegan Blood Orange Chia Pudding

This Vegan Blood Orange Chia Pudding is a delicious breakfast or pudding that is full of fragrant flavours. Get the recipe below.

Chia pudding

Chia pudding is one of my absolute favourite breakfasts. It's got such a creamy texture which makes it feel quite decadent, when in fact it is quite good for you. Because of this is also makes for a really night light dessert.

If you're a little unsure as to what chia pudding is, it's a dish made up of chia seeds and then a liquid. Sometimes this is milk, other times it's fruit juice. In this Vegan Blood Orange Chia Pudding I've used the juice of two blood oranges.

Sometimes, as with this recipe, yogurt is also mixed in to make it extra creamy. To make this recipe vegan I've used a plain, unsweetened vegan yogurt.

You can also add in other flavourings. Some people add flavoured protein powder, some add in maple syrup to make it sweet. I've used just a dash of rose water to bring out the floral flavour of the blood orange.

Blood oranges

Winter citrus fruits are my absolute favourite, but blood oranges top the list.

They taste like oranges but with a raspberry or red grapefruit quality about them. This makes the extra fragrant. When they are in season I just can't get enough.

Contrary to popular belief blood oranges aren't always bright red. They can be a pale blush colour, or speckled too. It's just luck if you cut one open to find them a deep, dark red.

They get their colour from the weather - it has to be mild during the day and hot at night. You'll see their skins change colour as well as the flesh inside from the contrast in termperature.

For this recipe I like to use the blood orange juice to help the chia seeds swell and then I segment the other two oranges to add on top of the chia pudding.

How to segment an orange

Segmenting an orange into perfect pieces is easy as long as you follow these steps.

1. Cut off the top and bottom so you have a flat surface to rest the orange on and so that you can see how much pith there is around the fruit.
2. Using a small, sharp knife, cut from top to bottom by following the round shape of the orange, cutting away the pith.
3. Repeat this motion all the way around the orange.
4. If there's any pith remaining carefully cut this off.
5. Once all of the pith is removed, slide your knife down one side of one of the membranes and cut through to the centre of the orange. Repeat this on the other side of the segment and it will come straight out.
6. Rotate the orange and keep doing this until all of the segments have been removed.

Once you've got all of your segments you're ready to top your pudding.

The recipe

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