Warm Nutmeg & Vanilla Buckwheat Pudding

The evening is a time to wind down, mentally and physically, from the day. We love this delicious pudding because it is light and soothing, and designed to promote a calm and restful sleep while delivering skin and belly benefits.

In the recipe, we've included our SLEEP Inner Beauty Powder, a delicious bio-fermented turmeric and spice blend for beauty and well-being, with passionflower and lemon balm, traditionally used in western herbal medicine to promote a calm and restful sleep.

High-fibre buckwheat is an excellent source of collagen-building manganese and copper and helps improve digestion. Tasty goji berries are a rich source of flavonoids that help maintain a healthy glow as well as polysaccharides that firm and tighten the skin and increase hydration.

What can we say but … sweet dreams.

– serves 1

Ingredients

  • 1/ 4 cup (50g) buckwheat groats*, soaked in cold water overnight
  • 3/ 4 cup (180ml) water
  • 1/ 2 cup (125ml) drinking coconut milk
  • 2 teaspoons pure maple syrup
  • 1/ 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped pecans, to serve
  • 1/ 2 pitted medjool date, thinly sliced lengthways, to serve
  • 1 teaspoon goji berries, to serve
  • Marigold petals, to serve (optional)

SLEEP MILK

Method

  1. Drain and rinse the soaked buckwheat.
  2. Place the buckwheat, water, coconut milk, maple syrup and vanilla in a small saucepan. Bring to the boil then decrease the heat and simmer, stirring occasionally for 25–30 minutes until buckwheat is tender and a creamy porridge consistency.
  3. To prepare the SLEEP milk, gently warm the milk in a small saucepan, until tepid. Add the TBC SLEEP Inner Beauty Powder and stir to combine.
  4. Serve the buckwheat pudding warm, at room temperature or cold in a bowl, topped with warm SLEEP milk. Serve with pecans, sliced date, goji berries and marigold petals.


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Carla Oates
Carla Oates Carla Oates is the founder and CEO of The Beauty Chef, and a pioneer in the ingestibles and gut health space. A former beauty editor turned wellness innovator, Carla created The Beauty Chef's first product Glow® in 2009—a groundbreaking fermented supernutrient powder with pre, pro & postbiotics. Today, she works alongside a team of naturopaths, nutritionists and microbiologists to develop The Beauty Chef's range of probiotic formulas, fermented for potency at their state-of-the-art Probiotic Lab in Sydney. Carla is also the author of three books, a longtime natural beauty columnist, and a sought-after speaker who has been featured at VOGUE Codes, WWD Beauty Summit and various international events and media.


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