Coconut Yogurt With Hints Of Ginger
from Inner Vore Blog by Erin Bodashefsky
Satisfyingly easy for all!
How rewarding it can be to make your own meals from scratch! This simple raw/vegan yogurt is something that you can make in a big batch and can be kept in individual containers for multiple days throughout the week. It is good as a breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything & anything between!
Dress it up to your personality! You can play it up each day by adding different fruits or with my preferred personal recipe of sprouted buckwheat granola.
Why ginger during the spring days? This particular yogurt has ginger, for some inner-heat during these cool days, and you will feel light and fluffy after eating it, maybe not the usual feeling you may get from eating dairy-based yogurts.
Raw Coconut Ginger Yogurt
4-5 servings
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ cups of coconut water, or water (amount varies, less water means thicker yogurt or more water for a lighter yogurt)
- 1 cup of almonds, soak for 8-12 hours (peeled if time is on your side)
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice *start saving your lemon peels for a fermeneted soap I will be posting about
- 1 tbs ginger juice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract or 1 vanilla bean
Directions
1. Blend all ingredients until soft and creamy (set aside some almonds for step 2). *choose your own texture of the yogurt with the blending time.
2. Toss in some fresh berries, pre-soaked dried fruit, and some chopped soaked almonds. For more texture add shredded coconut, for more nutrition add spiralina powder.
*can also add in some probiotic powder from a capsule during the blending process.
Benefits And Uses For Ginger
Ginger aids in digestion, so you can further the assimilation of your nuts and seeds not only through pre-soaking them but also flavoring them by adding some grated ginger.
How to make ginger water. Take a cup with about ¼ cup roughly chopped ginger, pour in some boiling hot water, and let sit for 10-20 minutes. Drinking this half an hour before meals or 2 hours after meals to aid digestion or to ease a cold or flu.
Enjoy a warming and detoxing ginger bath. Have a bath and pour some ginger water with you to allow it to absorb into your skin.
Carry ginger around your purse for health on the go. It is the wonderful for a friend who is sick! You make a simple ginger tea by roughly chopping the ginger, even furthering the benefits by throwing in some cayenne, cloves, or fenugreek. To serve add a squeeze of lemon and a spoon of honey.
Drink ginger tea to prevent and ease nausea in pregnancy or travel sickness.
Meet Erin Bodashefsky, creator of Innervore Blog.
I grew up as a curiously-shy girl and bloomed into this body of wisdom, which only attracted more wisdom. I found myself in all sorts of healing situations and I want to share the things I have learned from everything breathing around me. Choosing to live a natural life-style is a powerful high that I want others to feel. Nature keeps my inner core open and happy and healthy- observing it has taught me many grounding lessons. I feel I am a professional human-being but I also go by the title of raw/vegan chef. I attended the international raw school Living Light that connected me to many funky souls that brought me to many funky worldwide places. Now, I am taking all of these inspirations I absorbed and I am spreading the light on the knowledge in my hometown community through workshops, yoga (meditation, positive thinking, breathing, postures, relaxation), health guider, truth seeking, inner-dance, and connecting on all levels.
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