Lee’s Layered Quinoa Trifle

Layered Quinoa Trifle

Layers and layers of health-promoting ingredients make this Christmassy dessert one you can indulge in all year round.

Serves: 4

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Layered Quinoa Trifle

By: Lee Holmes

Layers and layers of health-promoting ingredients make this Christmas dessert one you can indulge in all year round.


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Ingredients

  • 100g quinoa, rinsed
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • Pinch Celtic sea salt
  • ¼ cup unsweetened almond milk
  • ½ tsp alcohol-free vanilla extract
  • 6 drops stevia liquid or 1 tbsp rice-malt syrup
  • 1 tbsp slivered almonds
  • 2 bananas, sliced
  • ½ cup Greek-style yoghurt
  • 4 tbsp coconut flakes
  • ½ cup mixed berries
  • 1 tsp almond butter, melted
  • 1 tbsp chia seeds, for sprinkling

Method


  • Bring 1 cup water to the boil in a large saucepan. Add the quinoa, return to the boil, cover and reduce the heat to low for 12–15 mins or until all water has been absorbed. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
  • Place quinoa in a bowl and stir through cinnamon and salt.
  • In a saucepan over medium–low heat, warm almond milk for 3–4 mins. Stir in vanilla and stevia or rice-malt syrup.
  • Add a couple of spoons of quinoa to four glass jars, or glasses. Mix through almond milk and follow with layers of slivered almonds, banana slices, yoghurt, coconut flakes and berries. Repeat until jars are full, with berries as top layer.
  • Top with melted almond butter and chia seeds.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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