Chia Upma Breakfast (Raw-Vegan)

You won't see a recipe for Raw Chia Upma anywhere else on the net, believe me I googled ;) So what is upma and why is it my new favorite breakfast? The name 'upma' is a combination of the word for salt and the word for wheat Tamil. If you wiki it you'll find that it's usually made of a substance called suji or rava both of which are often made with refined grain. While it would be easy cook your own version with a healthy grain like millet or quinoa substituting, I knew there had to be a way to do it raw!

The key selling point of upma is that it's a quick, easy, and oh so filling breakfast treat you can make and enjoy at the last minute. So I'm not going to get to detailed in the recipe but if you feel so inspired go ahead and add more chopped veggies and spices, maybe even garnish with some soaked walnuts

What You'll Need:
1 cup hemp milk (would not reccommend almond milk for this recipe)
1/4 cup chia seeds
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp cumin
2 tsp curry powder
1 pinch hing (Asafoetida)
1 pinch onion powder
2 tsp coconut oil

1 small bell pepper, chopped
2 medium stalks celery, chopped
1 handful cilantro (coriander leaf), chopped
1 handful dulse
1 tsp salt or kelp granules

To prepare, first pour hemp milk and chia seeds into blender. Add spices, coconut oil, let sit. Meanwhile chop your veggies and soak your dulse to make sure there's no little seashells stuck to it. Blend hemp milk, chia seeds, etc into a rough porridge, no need to pulverise it just mix things up a little. Next add your vegetables and salt and pulse a few times. If you wanna get fancy garnish with cilantro, coconut shavings etc, otherwise wait about 5 minutes (if you can!) for the flavours to mix and enjoy!

Sprouted Raw Hummous

omfg is that a flaxseed cracker? yup and what's it doing by that big bowl of freshly made sprouted raw hummous? it's going in, hawt. this is the best hummous i've made srsly, recipee down below.







Sasha's Sprouted Hummous

2 cups sprouted garbanzo beans (if you don't know about sprouting google it. i might cover it in a later post.)
1/4 cup raw tahini
1/3 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice. you could get lazy and use bottled but it will be so much better if you squeeze it yourself
3 cloves garlic: crushed
1/2 cup parsley chopped
1 - 1 1/2 cup rejuvelac (a delicious fermented wheat berry beverage. if you don't know what this is you can just use water or coconut water here. more on rejuvelac soon.)
1 tbsp minced jalepeno or pepper of your choice
1 tsp black cumin
1/2 tsp cumin seed
1 tsp coriander seed
a few grinds of black pepper
1 tsp zest from lemmon
1 1/2 tbsp celtic sea salt
lots and lots of olive oil
paprika to garnish

Ok so you've got your sprouted garbanzos, remember, they need to be sprouted, just raw will taste weird and be hard to digest, you throw these in the blender and add a generous splash of olive oil, the lemon juice, garlic, tahini and rejuvelac. Go ahead and blend this down to a paste, then add your parsley, jalepeno, lemon zest, and salt. Put on blend while you grind the cumin, black cumin, coriander and red pepper flakes down to a powder. Add through top of blender and continue to blend. How long you blend is dependant on how awesome your blender is and how creamy you want this. Your rejuvelac, lemon, and olive oil will actually help break things down in the fridge, but i find it's best to blend until there are no more little chunks. If you have trouble with this you can add more olive oil and continue to blend.

now when it's ready pour it in it's serving dish (a big flat dish with a top would be ideal) and garnish with olive oil, black pepper and paprika. if you wanna be snobby you can throw a little parsley on top.

all that's needed at this point is a cracker, tortilla, toast, baguette or just about anything you can imagine. as you can see i've dehydrated some flaxseed and veggies into crackers. so as to have a completely raw meal but i leave it to your discression to chose the medium for your hummous. try raw veggies dipped in it too!