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Hi! Welcome to earthslivingclay.com's YouTube channel.
Today I wanted to show you a modified mango lassi
that you can make and it's a great way to incorporate calcium bentonite clay into your diet.
This recipe comes from Lissa Coffey of Coffey Talk
who is an Ayurvedic expert
and Lissa says that this particular recipe
is good for all three doshas. Depending on what yours is, this would work.
It is
sugar-free,
dairy free,
and gluten-free.
It's got a lot of nutrition in it. I've modified it a little bit and as we go through it I'll tell you
what I've modified.
Lissa's recipe
originally has four ingredients: tofu, mango, stevia and
almond milk.
Today I'm going to use hemp milk because that's what I have on hand,
and of course I'm going to add clay to it.
I'm also going to add some psyllium husks for fiber.
And I'm also going to add water to
make it a little thinner and less milkshake-y.
This is a vegan version.
So we'll start by
adding our ingredients.
I have some mango here
that I cut up.
And one thing that's important to know, these are yellow mangoes that were available at my
local
health food store
but you probably are more used to seeing
a green and red mango
like this one. And what Lissa tells us is that it's not the color of the mango
that determines it's ripeness.
It's actually
when you press your thumb or finger into it if it gives a little.
Now I intentionally bought this one a little
under-ripe so that I could show it to you.
And so it needs to give. This doesn't give too much so I'm going to wait a couple more days
before I use this mango. But again, it's the
texture of the flesh
not the color of the skin that determines if it is
ripe or not.
It is a traditional eastern Indian beverage, and mango is the traditional flavor
because mangoes are abundant in India. But of course you could substitute any fruit that you have on hand.
Another trick is to use frozen fruit. I like my smoothies cold
so I like to use
frozen fruit,
but certainly you can use fresh fruit as well. So we've got our mango
and then
the recipe also traditionally is made with yogurt,
but to make it dairy-free, Lissa has substituted tofu.
It's a light, silken tofu
and it's three ounces for this recipe. One thing about soy, soy is one of those
crops in the United States that is
genetically modified, most of the soy grown in this country.
And so to make sure if you don't want to have a GMO product in your smoothie,
make sure that it's organic. I've been told by
a gluten-free
chef that
organic soy is going to be non-GMO.
And then I'm going to add
I have a cup of water, purified water,
and I'm going to add
a cup of hemp milk.
And the reason why you don't just add two cups of hemp milk is because
I want to be mindful of the calories. One cup of the hemp milk is 140 calories,
which isn't exorbitant, but still,
there's nothing wrong with adding water. And then the recipe also calls for
one tablespoon of stevia,
and stevia is a natural sweetener.
There's been a lot of
news just in the last week or two about sugar and the
deleterious effects of that on our health. And stevia is a
natural sweetener
that comes from a plant, and so that's a really good
substitute. This is
stevia extract.
And then, as I said, I like to modify
and add, to all my smoothies really,
psyllium husks, which are
a corn
I believe they're a corn based product. It's just a teaspoon
to make it a little bit
a little bit thicker
and add fiber to it.
And actually, Metamucil is
actually psyllium husks and sweetener.
And so, if you are a regular user of Metamucil,
maybe you can substitute just straight ol' psyllium husks and eliminate the sugar from your diet that way.
And then of course the last ingredient that I'm going to add is
our pure calcium bentonite clay. It doesn't have to be hydrated already but I have it
on hand. We leave this on our counter.
The drinking powder is mixed
one part clay to eight parts water,
so we make a liter of it and leave it on our counter and then we have it to take daily.
And on this smoothie
I'm going to add two tablespoons,
two generous tablespoons of the hydrating clay,
and that is one ounce.
I could add more but that's what I'm going to add for me.
If you have the dry drinking powder you could just add
a teaspoon of the dry
powder to the smoothie, and we're good to go.
I've got a Blendtec blender which is the blender that Jamba Juice uses.
Alright, so I've got my
mango lassi
and that mango was
actually not frozen that I added to this particular smoothie so there wasn't
a lot of excessive turning.
So now I've got my mango lassi.
I've really got enough for one big glass or
two smaller glasses.
The other thing I wanted to
show you is
these little
popsicle makers. I got this at the 99 Cent Store. It literally was 99 cents plus tax.
And
what you can also do is pour the
lassi
into
your popsicle maker,
and it will make a nice
ice cream pop.
Well, it's not ice cream, right, it's a lassi pop. A nice, refreshing dessert.
I'm going to stick the little tops in it and
pop that in the freezer and let it freeze so I've also got a nice dessert. And I'm sure, mmm, yummy.
That's great, I'm just back from the gym so it's nice to have some
protein and give myself some energy for the rest of the
morning.
So I hope you've enjoyed the video, thanks for watching, and check back soon for more videos!