COOL AS CUSTARD
Fantastically scrummy custard to serve as a delicious breakfast or a yummy nutritious treat. Good any time of the day. It’s loaded with protein, healthy fats and gut healing gelatin. Enjoy this wonderful nutritional Tri-factor!
Ingredients
- 1 cup pine nuts or cashew nuts
- 2 cups water
- 2 tbsp raw honey
- 8 egg yolks
- 1/2 vanilla bean
- 1 tbsp Great Lakes Gelatin
Instructions
- Soak 1 cup of pine nuts or cashew nuts for a minimum of 3 hours or overnight
- Rinse the pine nuts/cashew nuts and drain all the water - add the drained nuts to a blender or food processor
- Add the water, honey, egg yolks (the eggs must be organic and well sourced, save the egg whites to make meringue or fluffy pancakes) and the inside scrapings of the vanilla bean and blend on high speed for 1 minute
- Once blended you may notice that there are bits in the mixture - if that is the case then simply run the mixture through a sieve and place back in the blender or food processor
- Place 1 cup of the mixture in a saucepan and add the Great Lakes Gelatin (use the one in the orange pack DO NOT use the hydrolysed version which is in a green pack) - warm up the mixture until the gelatin has melted - this shouldn't take more than a minute or so. Don't let the mixture steam up. once the gelatin has melted take it off the heat and let it cool for about 10 minutes
- Add the content of the pan back into the blender or food processor and mix for 20 seconds on high speed
- Use straight away if you are looking for pouring custard or place in one large dish or smaller individual dishes in the fridge to firm up. This will take about 3 hours
- It will keep in the fridge for at least 3 days
THE SCIENCE BIT
EGGS are a wonderfully easy to digest protein with a full set of amino acids to feed almost every function in the body. They are a great source of almost all B vitamins, including a wonderful source of choline essential for cognition and a healthy nervous system as well as significant for detoxification. Eggs also contain exceptional number of minerals including, selenium and iodine, fundamental in thyroid health. Great Lakes Gelatin which is a wonderful way to support gut healing and is a great source of protein. It’s loaded with amino acids including glycine, lysine and proline which have been shown to speed up cell growth, build connective tissue and support liver detoxification.
