Comforting Hot Chocolate - Nourishing postpartum recipe
In the days and weeks after your baby's birth, you'll want to be giving your body nourishing foods and drinks, to help your body heal.
Making sure your body is receiving all the vital nutrients will bring you energy and help you release all the feel-good hormones, and who doesn't love a cosy, delicious hot chocolate?
Why hot chocolate?
Well, for one, it tastes AMAZING!
It's cosy, warm, soothing, and nourishing. Cacao is packed with magnesium which helps calm your nervous system, reducing stress, and helps you release oxytocin (bonding and love hormone), and the feel-good hormone serotonin.
This recipe includes lots of healthy fats, to help provide you with extra energy and helps support your hormone balance. It's great for breastfeeding too!
Ingredients:
2 cups (500ml) of your favourite milk (cow, coconut, oat or almond milk)
3 tablespoon cacao powder (or if you cant find cacao, just use cocoa)
1/4 or 1/2 chilli powder (depending on your taste and spice tolerence)
1 tablespoon cornmeal or cornflour
1 tablespoon coconut, ghee or butter
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
pinch of salt
honey, maple syrup or sugar (to your taste)
(optional: some orange peel or black pepper)
How to prepare:
Pop the milk in a medium sized saucepan and warm over a medium heat. Add all the other ingredients and stir. You can use a spoon, fork or whisk. The cornflour might get a little lumpy. You can either whisk it until it's smooth, or leave the lumps for different consistency.
Find a comfortable place on the sofa, or in your bed, and surround yourself with your favourite blankets, and snuggle up with your baby, a book, or your best friend. Enjoy!
If you would like any support in preparing for your fourth trimester, or hands-on support during the first few days, weeks or months with your newborn baby, do feel free to reach out to me. You can find out all about the support I offer after birth just here
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Feel free to send this to a pregnant friend or newborn mother 🌸
With love, Miranda 💗
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