Vegan Chocolate Mushroom Pudding
Delicious vegan chocolate pudding featuring Reishi mushroom.
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Do you just NEED a nightcap to end the night? Something about ending the night with a sweet and warm treat helps to calm and relax my soul, and get ready to turn in for the night. I also have a tendency for emergency chocolate cravings, so I am always pleased to have a few go-to recipes for single serve desserts.
This is perfect for when those cravings hit, and it only takes about 5 minutes to make! It also has the added health benefit of Reishi mushroom from Four Sigmatic and is sugar free, which means you don’t feel guilty while enjoying it! It’s a win all around in my book!
Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) is the Queen of Mushrooms and one of my favorites. It has been long used in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and today it is a known adaptogen which means it helps reduce stress. It can also help support sleep quality, and even has antihistamine properties to calm asthma and allergen responses. Like most must medicinal mushrooms, it is antibacterial and anti microbial and can also support liver function. It promotes healthy immune response against viral, bacterial, and fungal infections and suppresses excessive or chronic inflammation that threatens long-term health. Some studies have even suggested Reishi may restore youthful immunity and add 7-16 years to the human lifespan! It is a very grounding mushroom and can bring calm, so my favorite time to consume this medicinal mushroom is at night. Another side effect I have personally found when consuming Reishi, is more vivid and memorable dreams.
Reishi Chocolate Pudding
Ingredients:
1 C Almond Milk (or milk of choice)
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 C maple syrup
1 packet of Four Sigmatic Reishi Cacao
1 Tablespoon corn starch
1/4 C dark chocolate chips
Put salt, milk, maple syrup, and Reishi cacao packet in a sauce pan. Leave a little milk out and mix it with the corn starch. Add corn starch mix to the sauce pan and heat low-medium until bubbling. Stir in the chocolate chips, stir until melted. Pour into a bowl and placein the fridge and serve cooled, or serve warm (my preference!)
Top with toppings such as strawberries, blueberries, coconut, or cacao nibs.
Enjoy!
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Further reading on Reishi https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2012/ss/epidemic-immunosenescence/page-01
Mushroom Momma, Why Mushrooms?
I am on a conquest, just like the mushrooms, to connect. To heal, and to grow, from every situation or path. Come explore what being a mushroom momma means to me!
Mushrooms are the new black. Mushrooms are one of the most underrated species on our planet, but are quickly gaining popularity and superfood status. When most people hear about mushrooms, they think of the button kind to cook with, or the magical kind. There is a whole world of mushrooms used for medicinal properties. Mushrooms can promote your own health, by strengthening your immune system to prevent debilitating diseases. They have long been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine, in fact Reishi mushroom is listed as one of the most effective Chinese herbs, and in fact, has even been officially listed as cancer treatment by the Japanese government. This is just one example of how powerful mushrooms can be. Contrary to popular belief, they are not a plant, but are in their own kingdom, fungus. Did you know we share more DNA with mushrooms than we do with plants? We share 30%-50% of their DNA! This is because we are part of the same “super Kingdom”, and is the reason we can use medicine from fungi better than from other things. There are over 1.5 million varieties, 6 times more varieties than plants. It is even said that mushrooms are one of the first organisms to move from sea to land. These strange, living, fungi grow all around, in the ground, to the trees, even on insects. In fact they have a web that spreads across our globe, connecting all living things, called the mycelium. I am on a conquest, just like the mushrooms, to connect. To heal, and to grow, from every situation or path. Come explore what being a mushroom momma means to me!
