Featuring our 2-Ingredient Peanut Butter Caramel, this Vegan Salted Caramel Chia Pudding is refined sugar-free and naturally gluten-free. It also only takes about 5 minutes to and can easily be prepared the night before, to save time the next morning.
Fore more chia seed recipes see Apple Chia Pudding, Almond Milk Chia Pudding or Warm Chia Pudding.
Ingredients & Substitution Notes
- Chia Seeds: The main ingredient in this recipe are chia seeds. Mixed with liquid they expand hugely in size. The amount of liquid depends on how thin or thick you prefer your chia pudding to be.
- Plant milk: You could use any plant milk you like for this recipe. Personally, I prefer oat milk because it's naturally sweeter than other types of plant milks.
- Yogurt: Yoghurt adds a creamy texture to this recipe. I used plain, unsweetend soy-yogurt to keep this recipe vegan. Feel free to use any yogurt of your choice.
- Natural Peanut Butter: For this recipe to work you would want to use peanut butter that consists 100% of peanuts and no additives. If your peanut butter already contains some salt, you might not need to add more salt to this recipe.
- Maple Syrup: I recommend using pure maply syrup.
- Tiny Pinch of Salt: In order for this caramel to be salted you will need to add a tiny pinch of salt.
Step-by-step photo instructions
Chia seeds have the ability to bind a huge amount of liquid relative to their size. The amount of milk you use will depend on how you prefer the consistency to be.
For a thinner texture use more milk, for a thicker chia pudding use less liquid.
STEP 1: Prepare chia seed pudding. In a small bowl, mix together chia seeds, plant milk and yogurt of choice. Keep stirring with a whisk in order to avoid clumps.
The chia seeds will need to rest in the fridge for a minimum of 1 hour (or preferably overnight) in order to thicken.
Even though the mix seems to be far too thin in the beginning- be patient, the chia seeds will soak up all that liquid and expand in size. This will take a minimum of 10 minutes.
STEP 2: Peanut butter caramel. In a small bowl, mix together maple syrup and peanut butter, stirring with a whisk until a caramel-like sauce forms.
You can change the thickness of the caramel by adding more or less maple syrup.
Variations
- Vegan: To keep it vegan, simply use any plant-based milk and yogurt of your choice. However, the recipe will work with any milk or yogurt so in case you don't need this recipe to be vegan, simply use regular milk products.
- Adjust sweetness: You can adjust the sweetness of the recipe by adding more maple syrup as a topping later on.
Add-In & Topping Ideas
- Nuts: Sprinkle some nuts or homemade granola on top for some crunchy textures and healthy fats.
- Fresh fruit: Feel free to add your favorite fruits such as banana chunks or berries.
- Coconut flakes: also make a delicious topping
- Chocolate chips
Meal prep options
To save even more time I highly recommend preparing your chia pudding the night before and simply store it in the fridge overnight.
More chia seed recipes
📖 Recipe
Vegan Salted Caramel Chia Seed Pudding
Ingredients
Chia Seeds
- 8 tablespoon chia seeds
- 2 cup (460 ml) plant milk of choice *unsweetened almond milk, soy milk, oat milk...
- 1 cup (245 g) yogurt of choice *non-dairy or dairy-based
Peanut Butter Caramel
- ¼ cup (60 g) smooth, natural peanut butter
- ⅓ cup (125 ml) + 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
- tiny pinch of salt
Instructions
- Mix together chia seeds, plant milk, yoghurt and maple syrup using a whisk in order to avoid clumps.
- Let sit in the fridge to thicken for at least 2 hours (preferably overnight).
- When the chia seeds are ready, prepare the salted caramel sauce. Add all ingredients to a small bowl and whisk until everything is well cmobined and the mix resembles that of a thick sauce (see step-by-step photos).
- Add the sauce on top of your chia seeds and enjoy with your toppings of choice.
Notes
- Storage: Can easily be prepared the evening before. Store in an airtight container in the fridge. Add caramel sauce and topping shortly before serving.
- Natural peanut butter: For the recipe to work it's really important to use natural peanut butter without any additives.
- Texture: You can modify the texture of your caramel sauce by adding more or less syrup. Check out our Caramel Sauce post for detailed instructions.
Hannah Mae says
This is such an easy and delicious way to start your day off, highly recommend this to everyone!
Katie says
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!