Homemade Lemon Chia Seed Pudding
Printable Recipe (click to expand)
Ingredients
Method
- Combine sugar, cornstarch and salt in medium sauce pan on medium/low heat.
- Whisk continuously and add a 1/4 cup of cream and continue to whisk until smooth.
- Once smooth gradually add remaining cream with the eggs and continue to whisk until small bubble begin to appear around the edge of the sauce pan then lower heat and add and add lemon zest.
- Continue to stir with a spatula while scraping the bottom to make sure nothing burns to the bottom for another 3-5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and let sit for about 30 second, add both the vanilla and chia seed and stir well.
- Place in a medium size bowl or into 4 ramekins and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Hey there Honey's and New-Bees!
Remember when you were a kid and your mom made you pudding for desert or you got those little pudding cups for lunch? Weren’t they great?! Personally I loved them and they were always my favourite part of my lunch lol.
I hadn’t had pudding in years and had a craving for it one night, but couldn’t bare the thought of going out and buying one of those little boxed of pudding mix filled with preservatives – so I did a little research to find out how to make pudding from scratch. Turns out it’s pretty easy, and all you need is a couple of ingredients you should already have on hand; and you can personalize the flavour to your liking!
I’ve always loved lemon poppy seed anything but I’d never had lemon poppy seed pudding, sooo.. since I was making my own pudding and wasn’t limited to the options on the shelf I figured “hey why not try creating exactly what I want”! It only took two attempts (don’t worry Romeo and I made sure the beta version didn’t go to waste) and I was able to create lemon “poppy seed” pudding – however, instead of using poppy seeds (which I didn’t have) I used chia seeds, which turned out magnificently, on top of having all the nutritional benefits of chia seed!
If you’re not a fan of lemon poppy seed (or chia seed) but still want to learn how to make your own pudding, continue reading anyway since this post gives you the basic steps on how to make a pudding – and feel free to get creative with the flavors to adjust and create your own custom flavor pudding.
I’d love to know what flavors you came up with so please share in the comments!
Step 1 – Mix and Stir
Combine sugar, cornstarch and salt in medium sauce pan. Once they’re well mixed turn your burner on medium/low heat. Make sure to stir continuously while it’s heating then add 1/4 cup of cream and continue to whisk until the mixture is a nice smooth texture, then add the rest of the cream.
Step 2 – Temper your Eggs
Once your cream has warmed up, ladle out about 1/4 cup and whisk it with eggs. This is called “tempering” your eggs, and is a pretty good trick to prevent your eggs from scrambling when you add them into your pudding mixture.
Step 3 – Flavour and Wait
Add tempered eggs into your hot mixture and continue stir on medium heat until small bubbles appear around the edges of the sauce pan. Once you see the bubbles, turn down the heat, add your lemon zest, and stir for another 3-5 minutes making sure to scrape the bottom of the pan to prevent any burning.
After 3-5 minutes remove your pot from the heat and let pudding cool for about a minute, then mix in your vanilla and chia seed to your pudding, transfer to a medium size bowl and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
Items Featured in this Post:
Ingredients
Method
- Combine sugar, cornstarch and salt in medium sauce pan on medium/low heat.
- Whisk continuously and add a 1/4 cup of cream and continue to whisk until smooth.
- Once smooth gradually add remaining cream with the eggs and continue to whisk until small bubble begin to appear around the edge of the sauce pan then lower heat and add and add lemon zest.
- Continue to stir with a spatula while scraping the bottom to make sure nothing burns to the bottom for another 3-5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and let sit for about 30 second, add both the vanilla and chia seed and stir well.
- Place in a medium size bowl or into 4 ramekins and refrigerate for 2 hours.
If you liked this you'll love:
-
Homemade Blueberry Clafoutis
A delightful and simple french dessert that can be whipped up without breaking a sweat! -
Homemade Eggnog Creme Brûlée
A festive twist on a classic dessert! -
Homemade Raspberry Lemon Meringue Pie
The perfect springtime desert. -
Homemade Blueberry Mini Muffins
A fun little homemade treat!
Ok, I’m not sure how I feel about Lemon Chia seed, but your photos and description make me want to try it. It looks truly delicious!
It’s a real fun treat! Hope you get the chance to try this out!
This sounds so good I can’t wait to try it. Pinned it as well.
Thanks! Enjoy!
Great recipe! I bet I could get my toddler to eat this!
😊
This pudding sounds so delicious! And so much better for you than the store bought version. My kids LOVE chia pudding – so this recipe might just be perfect for them 🙂 . It’s a good thing you had your pudding craving!!
Way better than the anything from the store! Hope you and the family enjoy the recipe!!
I read a lot about chia seeds but have never known what to do with them before. Cant wait to try out this recipe.
I add Chia to all kinds of recipes, from muffins, to smoothies and even bean salad, they’re just fantastic – and have loads of health benefits! Hope you enjoy the pudding!
This looks so refreshing and I’ve just started putting chia seeds in my smoothies and LOVE them!
Thanks! Arn’t chia seeds great in smoothies! I add them to all kinds of things!!
So fun! I used to love those lemon poppyseed muffins from Costco when I was a kid. So sad they don’t exist anymore. I’d love to taste your poppy sead pudding to bring me back to that time. Lol. Thanks so much for the recipe. I look forward to trying it ❤️.
I remember those too, they were so good lol! Enjoy the recipe😊!
This looks so delicious! My daughter would love to try this! Thank you so much for the recipe. Can’t wait to try this! 🙂
Thanks! Hope you both enjoy!😋
Oh, this looks super yummy. I will definitely have to try this. I love trying new recipes!!
I have never tried chia seeds in pudding but it sounds super tasty. I love anything lemon and it reminds me of lemon poppy seed muffins visually . Great recipe!
Thanks Jen!
I was wondering if I could switch the cornstarch with arrowroot starch? We don”t use cornstarch in our house for various reasons but loooove The fact that this is all natural. Although, it takes the mad scientist out of my daughter since it requires a stove as opposed to making a batch of slime all on her own when she feels like it.
Hi Marie, you should be able to use arrowroot, but I’d recommend using a little less of what you would use of the cornstarch.