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Yummy Breakfast Compote

This delicate bowl of stewed fruits, seeds and warming spices is very deceptive in its actual breakfast prowess. Can just stewed fruits and seeds fill you up enough for the morning? YES. THEY CAN.
An absolute great addition to your breakfast repertoire, this bowl of yummy goodness won't disappoint. Brimming with vitamins and minerals, high in antioxidants and gut cleansing seeds, this breakfast is a must for anyone who wants to start their day healthy and clean, but not skim on the taste in any way.
If you're doing a cleanse, you can simply leave out the seeds and add more apples and bananas instead to bulk out the breakfast and not go hungry.
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Servings 1 portion

Ingredients
  

  • 1 x thumb size fresh ginger root chopped
  • juice of half a lemon
  • 1 x Banana chopped
  • 1 x Apple or Pear or both, chopped
  • 1-2 figs optional, chopped
  • 1-2 handfulls of blueberries I use wild ones from frozen
  • 1 x teaspoon sunflower seeds soaked over night if possible but also works without
  • 1 x teaspoon pumpkin seeds soaked over night if possible but also works without
  • 2 x teaspoon flax seeds soaked overnight if possible
  • 2 x teaspoons chia seeds soaked over night if possible
  • 1 x teaspoon cinnamon powder
  • half a teaspoon cardamom powder

Instructions
 

  • Add a little water to the bottom of a medium sized saucepan.
  • Add the chopped ginger and set heat setting to medium.
  • Add all the chopped fruits and the frozen blueberries, leave heat on a medium, cover the pot and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally and until the fruits start to soften nicely.
  • Add the lemon juice, and all the seeds (flax, chia, pupkin and sunflower), plus the cinnamon and cardamom, and stir everything in. Lower the heat slightly to a low simmer and continue to cook with the lid on for abother 8 - 10 minutes.
  • If the mixture is bubbling too much when the lid is on, turn the heat a little bit lower. You want to stew the fruit mixture slowly and not over cook it.
  • Cook like this until all the fruits are nicely cooked and the whole mixture has a nice and gooey consistency.
  • Take the pot of the heat and let the mixture sit and cool down for about 8 minutes with the lid on.
  • Pour the mixture into a bowl, sprinkle with roasted nuts of your choice, and VOILA, your yummy breakfast compote is at the ready.

Notes

NOTE: If on a cleanse, leave out all the seeds and simply stew the fruits with lemon juice, the ginger and spices. Add extra portions of fruits to make up for the lack of seeds.