Raw Food: Lemon Pudding (Banana Base)

MissLinguist's Note:

Delicious pudding in minutes, with all natural ingredients! I just started looking into the Raw Food Movement, but I've been trying to avoid highly processed foods for a while now. Standard pudding is on of the worst offenders, where processed foods are concerned. Raw Foodists make pudding using bananas or avocados for base. I've tried both, but I prefer the banana "puddings."

• Total Time: 5 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 1

• 1 banana
• 1/2 tablespoon honey or 1/2 tablespoon agave nectar
• 1 -2 tablespoon unsweetened flaked coconut
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice (from about 1/2 of a small lemon)
• 1/2 tablespoon olive oil (optional) or 1/2 tablespoon coconut oil (optional)

Directions:

1. Mash the banana with a fork.
2. Mix in the rest of the ingredients with a spoon.
3. Alternatively, process all ingredients in a food processor until mixed.
4. Note: Some people use pitted mejool dates instead of honey or another sweetener. I prefer a liquid sweetener, since the dates don't give a very smooth texture in the final product. If you want to use dates, one should be enough in this recipe.

Reviews

[Nikoma]

Don't want to put anyone off from trying this but it tasted exactly like what it is. Pureed banana with a tiny hint of lemon.

[free-free]

Good stuff...I have made this a bunch of times...I've used it as a pudding pie filling with a raw nut crust and also like spoons of the stuff in my green smoothies -I have tried all three suggestions as as the sweetener and my favorite is a mix of raw honey and then {the little piggy that i am ;)} I like to add some chopped dates too!!! _I enjoy the lemon and always add extra as well as tons of zest and extra shreds {{I'm a piggy who likes texture in her puddin' ;) }} ...in my most recent experiment with this I juiced a coconut and used a ton of the pulp in with the rest on the lemon-'nana blend then poured the mixture into ice trays (along with coconut cream to run through the juicer again to make raw "soft serve-like" ice cream YAY!:)..,.de-lish - good stuff!!:) **edit to add... always at least double this ;)

[mliss29]

I loved this! I started with just the banana and lemon juice and that was very good. I went on to try the coconut and honey, and it was good that way too! Really delicious and easy to make! Thanks! Reviewed for Healthy Choices ABC Tag.