I have been pondering on a new section for this blog, a breakfasts section because it is such an important meal and something a lot of us skip.
Here is my first installment of the Beautiful Breakfasts for Busy Bodies compendium of deliciousness. I will have a look through the archives when I get time and I might sort them into categories, in the meantime, I do hope you try this, it is DELICIOUS!
Ooo! Doesn't that look good! A jar of seedy goodness. So this is a grain free muesli, but you could certainly add grains to it if you wanted to. It is also an added sugar free muesli, but it does have some dates and sultanas in it, so it has some sweetness. Best of all, it retains a glorious crunch when served with milk, which I find very important in a toasted muesli.
Ingredients - makes about 500g
100g pitted dates
115g boiling water
5g baking powder
200g mixed seeds, for this I used pepita, sunflower, linseed and chia
100g activated buckwheat kernels
5g psyllium husk
10g green banana flour (if you can't find this add another 5g psyllium)
50g dried fruit
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/4 tsp cinnamon
50g of puffs, this has quinoa, buckwheat and amaranth puffs
Cover dates with boiling water, let sit for ten minutes, heat in the microwave for thirty seconds, stir in baking powder, blend until smooth with a wand blender.
In a large bowl combine all of the dry ingredients except for the puffs, pour over the date mix, stir to coat. Allow to sit for five minutes for the psyllium and green banana flour to soak up the moisture, stir in the puffs and then spread onto a lined baking tray.
Pop the muesli into the oven at 150 degrees C fan forced, cook until golden and crunchy, you need to cook the moisture out of it or it will go mouldy, but you need to take it slowly, or it will burn. This took forty minutes in my oven, with the temp turned down to 140 for the last ten minutes. Stir it every five minutes, keep an eye on it.
Once it is golden and crunchy remove from oven, allow to sit quietly on the tray until cold.
This is very important! If you put this into a jar hot, mould. Ick. And sick. Let it go cold first.
Decant into a large airtight jar. In the morning, or for morning tea, which is what Mr T did with it, pour some into a bowl, add some milk and enjoy.
There we go. A beautiful breakfast for a busy body. You are welcome. Xxm
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