Low-carb pudding

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 500 ml soy milk (soy drink), unsweetened
• 1 tsp, heaped guar gum
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder, defatted
• 1 small bottle(s) of vanilla flavoring or 1 vanilla pod
• sweetener

Instructions

Working time approx. 10 minutes; Rest time approx. 15 minutes; Total time approx. 25 minutes

Pudding with almost 0 g carbohydrates

Pour the soy milk into a saucepan, very slowly sift in the guar gum, and quickly whisk to avoid lumps. Let it sit for 10-15 minutes. Then add sweetener (liquid) as needed, along with vanilla flavoring. You could use baking flavoring or even real vanilla (a pod). If the extra 8g of carbs doesn’t bother you, you can also add a packet of vanilla sugar. Then thoroughly stir in 1-2 heaped tablespoons of cocoa powder. Heat slowly, stirring constantly. The cocoa powder will dissolve well, and the guar gum will bind better. Serve the pudding warm or cold. Once you’ve let it cool, stir occasionally. For extra creaminess, you can also blend the pudding with an immersion blender to mix everything together. Don’t necessarily eat a kilo of it all at once, because guar gum is almost entirely made up of fiber. This has the advantage of having no calories/carbs, but also a disadvantage that I won’t mention here… In any case, you end up with a pretty delicious pudding that has just about 40 calories and 1-1.5g of carbohydrates per 100g. You can, of course, omit the cocoa powder and add more vanilla flavoring. Cinnamon and vanilla are also very tasty! It’s important to buy unsweetened soy milk. It has just 0.9g of carbohydrates per ml. Therefore, 500g of pudding yields just under 10g of carbohydrates, including the cocoa powder.