Did you know that you can eat lavender? My godchild inspired me to this recipe. Prepared in less than 10 minutes. Love to surprise my hosts with it. Lavender has a distinctive taste with hints of mint and rosemary and has a calming and analgesic effect.
Ingredients (4 people):
- 1 liter of water
- 6 TBSP (60 g) raisins
- 1 TSP cinnamon
- ¼ TSP salt
- 1 TBSP (about 3-4 panicles) fresh lavender flowers or ½ TBSP dried lavender flowers
- 150 g semolina
- 4 TBSP (72 g) of date purée, maple syrup or coconut blossom sugar
- 4 TBSP peanut butter
- Zest of 1 lemon
Chocolate sauce:
- 200 ml of warm water
- 4 TBSP cacao powder, unsweetened
- 2 TBSP peanut butter
- 4 TSP maple syrup
Instruction:
- Boil in a pot water, raisins, cinnamon, salt and lavender flowers.
- Mix in the semolina, stirring constantly, with a whisk and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove the pot from the heat.
- Mix in the date purée, peanut butter and grated lemon zest. Then pour everything in cold rinsed molds. Allow to cool and then refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
- For the chocolate sauce, stir together the water, cacao powder, peanut butter and maple syrup until you have a creamy sauce.