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Ayurvedic Sunbutter Cups

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A little while ago I made my own sunflower butter and I felt legit AF!

I had never tried making my own nut butter – even though I pretty much make everything else from scratch at home. And honest, it was so easy. You can check out that recipe here.

So once I made the sunbutter, I was looking for all sorts of fun things to do with it… and these simple sunbutter cups were born.

These would make a great snack to send to school with your kids, to make as a snack at a kids birthday party, or just to have around the house if you’re feeling snacky – regardless of nut allergy or not!

Now, the method for making these is the same as making any other nut-butter cup.

And if you’re thinking of sending these to school with your kids I would highly recommend melting chocolate chips, or bakers chocolate and using that as the chocolate base, as opposed to the DIY chocolate recipe I’m going to give here.

The DIY chocolate is a little messy. It’s made with three ingredients – cocoa/cacao, coconut oil and maple syrup, but if not kept cool the coconut oil melts and gets everywhere. It’s super delicious, and super messy!

But what I love about it, is that it can be modified with as much or as little sweetness as you’d like.

I actually taught my nephew Adi how to make this, and he’s obsessed, and he tends toward the sweeter end of things… obviously, he’s nine.

But he was literally shocked at how easy this was to make, and I think rather proud of himself for being able to make something so delish on his own!

Ok, so as always, let’s talk about ways to modify this bad boy for the doshas!

If you’re a vata, I’d add more maple syrup to the chocolate (if making it on your own) and maybe even a spice or two to the chocolate mixture?! Cinnamon or cardamom would be lovely.

Pittas, stay away from the spices! You can leave this recipe as is, and it should be fine 🙂

Kaphas – definitely make your own chocolate. Reduce the sweetness and let it be more of a “dark chocolate” – the bitterness will be good for kaphas. The sunflower seed butter will also work in Kaphas favour because it’s a little more bitter than say almond, or peanut! And spices for Kaphas are obviously always a good idea! Adding a little cinnamon or ginger to the mix would work well.

Alright… That’s all I have to say about these nut butter cups.

Go make them, and let me know how they turned out! Tag me on Instagram and send me a picture of how they turn out – I always love seeing your creations!

And, if you’re not already, check out what I have to say about nutrition, Ayurveda and wellness over on the Yogi Fuel Podcast!

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 Ayurvedic Sunbutter Cups
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mini cups
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Servings
mini cups
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Mix together the cocoa, coconut oil, maple syrup and a tiny pinch of himalayan salt in a bowl. Taste and adjust ingredients as per your preference.
  2. Line a mini or regular size muffin pan with cups, and pour a small amount of chocolate sauce in the bottom - enough to cover the entire bottom of the muffin liner. Place in the freezer for 5-10 minutes or until they're fully hardened.
  3. Mix together some sunbutter with arrowroot starch to create a slightly thicker butter. You may choose to omit the starch and have a "runnier" nut butter filling - totally up to you!
  4. Remove the muffin tray from the freezer, and dollop some of your sunfower or nut butter filling on to the top. If you have used the starch, I like to roll mine into a little ball and flatten it out to create the perfect filling. When I'm lazy and don't use the starch, I just plop it in there!
  5. Then, using the rest of the chocolate sauce, cover the nut or seed butter entirely, and place back in the freezer for about 10-20 minutes (again, or until hardened)!
  6. Keep refrigerated or in the freezer. They will keep up to a couple weeks, but you'l finish them before then I promise!
Recipe Notes

If you're using chocolate chips

Create a double boiler by placing a bowl over a small pot of boiling water. Place the chocolate chips, or whatever chocolate you're using in the bowl with a little bit of coconut oil, and stir until a melty, chocolatey consistency has been achieved. 

This method works much better if you're hoping to pack these in your kids lunch box!

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The Best Post-Yoga Vegan GF Protein Bars

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No Bake Vegan Yoga Protein Bar

Discovering that I could make my own vegan, gluten-free protein bars at home has been GAME CHANGING PEOPLE!

Seriously.

They are FAR more delicious than the store bought ones, healthier, CHEAPER, and can be modified to suit your Dosha or your personal preferences.

Oh yea, and they take like 5 minutes.

…Unless you make them with sats. Then they take like 40 *eye roll emoji*

I love me a good protein bar, but the store bought ones are generally filled with garbagio.

Even the better ones have processed, refined, and artificial ingredients. Less than ideal sweeteners that rack up the sugar content. And may not be fuelling your practice the way you want them to.

When you make your bars at home, you can supercharge them with ingredients that are going to fuel your body post-practice, and make sure every ingredient is upleveling your health, not hindering it.

No Bake Vegan Yoga Protein Bar

Here’s why these bars are great after our practice:

After our practice, we want to load up on the healthy fats, and good sources of protein – NOT a shit load of sugar.

If we want to have sustainable energy all day, we want to focus on GOOD QUALITY fats and protein post-practice. This is going to help:

  • Muscle recovery and building – We’ve just worked SUPER hard, and if we don’t get enough protein and fatm we’re not going to be optimally recovering
  • Support our nervous system (that we just taxed). Practices like Ashtanga, with it’s intense backbends, can tax the nervous system. We can use good fats to help support our nervous system post practice.
  • Fats provide a sustainable form of energy as opposed to the quick fix of carbs
  • Will keep you feeling satiated for longer AKA less snacking.

These bars feature my FAVE vegan protein = PROfi Vanilla!

You can check them out here and use my discount code YOGIFUEL to get a 10% discount and FREE SHIPPING in Canada.

No Bake Vegan Yoga Protein Bar

Now, I want to touch on the Ayurvedic perspective on Nut butter.

I tried to in the video but… #momlife Sats wasn’t feeling it so I couldn’t finish my thoughts.

But here’s what I wanted to touch on from the Ayurvedic perspective.

Nut Butter is a bit difficult digest. Look at the qualities of it. It’s thick and sticky – it can be hard for us to chew and unstick from our mouths let alone in our digestive system.

In this sense, Ayurveda generally doesn’t LOVE nut butter.

However – there is always a “however” – Ayurveda NEVER admonishes the use of ingredients entirely. We want to look at balance.

So, yes, Nut butter is difficult to digest. But it’s also delicious. A great source of Fat and protein.

Should we avoid it? HELLS NO!

No Bake Vegan Yoga Protein Bar

But, we can dress it up, or do things to amp up our Agni to support and facilitate it’s digestion a little bit better!

Things we can do to boost Agni when eating Nut Butter:

  • Dress it up with spices like cinnamon, ginger, cardamom
  • Drink an Agni Boosting, digestive tea – Like Fennel, Ginger, Cumin Coriander and Fennel
  • Eat MINDFULLY

When we eat mindfully, we support our digestive process. So if you’re going to eat nut butter, enjoy the shit out of it, ok?

Alright, now… on to the recipe!

I want to make a little not that you should keep these in the fridge or freezer because they will soften up a bit AND the chocolate might be melty. If you want chocolate that will be un-melty out of the freezer, use chocolate chips in a double boiler instead of the recipe I provide.

Ok.. that’s all Yogis.

If you wanna watch me and Sats make this recipe… check out our youtube video LOL! It’s pretty amazing!

 






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Homemade Vegan GF, Keto Friendly Protein Bars

Prep Time 5 Minutes

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Bars


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The Bars

Chocolate Sauce

Prep Time 5 Minutes

Servings
Bars


Ingredients
The Bars

Chocolate Sauce


Instructions
The Bars
  1. Place all ingredients minus the coconut flour in a bowl and mix together. You can add a little maple syrup to sweeten, but I personally did NOT.

  2. Bit by bit add in some coconut flour until a thick, dough consistency is formed. You want this mixture to be malleable, but not so sticky that the peanut butter sticks to your hand.

  3. Place the mixture in a parchment lined loaf pan, and press it down firmly.

  4. Place in the freezer.

Chocolate Sauce
  1. Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix together. Taste the mixture and taste. Adjust cocoa and maple syrup to your taste preferences.

  2. Take the bars out of the freezer (they don't have to be fully frozen) and either artisticall drizzle the sauce on the bars, or just layer it on in one thick coating.

  3. Place back in the freezer (or fridge). Cut and enjoy!
    These should last for a few weeks... but they wont last!


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Gingerbread Glazed Prana Bites

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Guys… Since discovering the amazing consistency of the Peanut Butter Cookie Dough balls, I have started making these keto-friendly Prana Bites in all different flavors…

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5 Minute Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Balls

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I have been seriously slacking on posting my recipes to my blog, but I am back, and better than ever friends with these seriously delishhh, protein-packed peanut butter balls!

I feel like I stumbled onto something freakin’ genius.

This ratio of nut butter to coconut flour can be used pretty much with any combo of flavours to create a ridiculously delicious grain free, healthy fat filled, protein packed ball!

It started with peanut butter balls, but fear not there are tons more coming down the pipe-line and you are going to love them.

I’m also going to be playing around with adding some PROfi Plant-based protein to them and I will ABSOLUTELY be letting you know how those turn out.

Anyways,

These peanut butter balls are an AMAZING post-practice snack.

Yogi Fuel Peanut Butter Balls

Healthy fats – like peanut butter (organic) and coconut are super important for our nervous system. And as Yogi’s, with each practice we are taxing the nervous system. Incorporating these healthy fats can be super important.

Now, depending on your Dosha, you may want to play around with adding some spices to these guys to support digestion. For the Kapha and Vata folks, nut butter may be hard on the old digestive system.

So play around – see what works for you! I’ve got a gingerbread ball recipe coming up that is filled with spices and may be a bit better for those two Doshas.

These guys pack about 5-6 grams of protein PER BALL depending on how big you roll em. I like to measure a rough TBSP.

They have about 1G of sugar, and plenty of healthy fats. And you can increase the protein content by adding in some protein powder, and increase the fiber content by adding some ground flax!

Ok.. Now that you know how good these are for you, I’m going to show you how easy they are to make.

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 Protein Packed Peanut Butter Balls!
Cook Time 5 Minutes
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Balls
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Cook Time 5 Minutes
Servings
Balls
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Mix everything together in a bowl MINUS the coconut flour
  2. Once everything is nicely mixed, slowly add in the coconut flour a little bit at a time until a cookie dough consistency is reached.
  3. Roll into balls and keep in the fridge for... I would say just over a week but I promise they wont last that long.
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