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Believe it or not, this crazy looking breakfast is delicious & will keep you filled for hours! It's another veritable nutritional powerhouse.
Five Ways of Making This Chocolate Mint Breakfast Parfait
1. Here's Wendy's Healthy Girl's Kitchen original recipe.
2. The Healthy Librarian's "make it in the morning" version.
Option 1:
- 1/3 cup regular oats (not steel cut)
- about 7/8 of a cup of soy or other non-dairy milk
- 1 tablespoons chia seeds
- 1/2 tablespoon good quality non-Dutched cocoa--Penzey's is the best
- 1/2 to 1 packet of stevia (or 1 tsp maple syrup)
- 1/4 tsp vanilla
Mix everything together & microwave it in a large bowl until done--depends on your microwave.
Option 2:
If you already have a batch of chocolate slow-cooker steel cut oatmeal made, you're already halfway there. Scoop out 1/4 of the batch for layering. Warm it up with a little splash of non-dairy milk, or not, and sprinkle 1 tablespoon of chia into it.
Option 3:
Here's how to make my chocolate steel cut oatmeal in the morning if you don't have a slow-cooker, or you forgot to get it started last night. Follow all the directions for the slow-cooker recipe, but CUT THE WATER DOWN TO ONE CUP--and CUT THE MILK DOWN TO TWO CUPS. Heat the one cup of water in the microwave & mix the cocoa in it to properly mix it together. Mix all the ingredients into a saucepan, and heat until it starts to boil. Lower the heat to a low simmer, stir with a wooden spoon occasionally. Keep a careful watch, but, this should take about 15 to 25 minutes to absorb most of the liquid, and get creamy and delicious.
The Spinach Frozen Banana "Soft Serve" Layer
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1 large frozen banana or 1 1/2 small frozen bananas (be sure to freeze bananas already cut up into pieces!!!)
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1 cup frozen spinach--the kind that's in a plastic bag--not a solid frozen block
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about 1/4 cup of soy or non-dairy milk
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1/8 tsp peppermint extract---if you're not fond of mint flavoring, leave this out & add vanilla
Mix the frozen spinach, the milk, and the banana in a VitaMix or food processor & blend until smooth & creamy. Add a little more milk if necessary. You'll need the plunger with the VitaMix.
Now layer the oatmeal & minty soft-serve and enjoy!
Don't have a VitaMix? Don't have a food processor? Don't have any frozen bananas in your freezer?
No worries--mix the spinach & a regular banana with the mint extract or vanilla in your regular blender & eat your oatmeal like this! I call it, "Green Eggs and Chocolate Ham". It looks ridiculous, but it tastes fantastic!
Short Order Green "Eggs" and Chocolate "Ham" for Breakfast
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