Avocado makes this recipe high fat, 11.5g fat per serving. Try this instead:
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Our sweet potato choco pudding recipe only has 1.5g fat per serving!
Ingredients
- 🍠 2 cups cooked sweet potato (about 2 medium), cooled
- 🍫 ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 🍌 1 ripe banana
- 🍁 1–3 tbsp pure maple syrup (optional, to taste)
- 🌿 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 🥛 ¼–½ cup unsweetened almond milk, adding more as needed for a smooth, creamy consistency
- 🧂 Tiny pinch of salt (optional)
Directions
- Add the cooked sweet potato, banana, cocoa powder, vanilla, maple syrup (if using), and ¼ cup almond milk to a Vitamix or food processor.
- Blend until completely smooth and creamy. Add additional almond milk, a tablespoon at a time, until the pudding reaches your desired consistency.
- Refrigerate for at least 1 hour to allow it to thicken.
- Serve chilled. Top with fresh strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, or a light dusting of cocoa powder if desired.
Makes: 4 servings
Approximate nutrition (per serving):
- Calories: 100–120
- Fat: ~1–2 g
- Fiber: ~4–5 g
- Protein: ~2–3 g
If you’re following a very low-fat plan like Caldwell Esselstyn’s, just note that almond milk contains a little more fat than oat or skim-style soy milk. Using an unsweetened almond milk with 30 calories or less per cup keeps the fat very low while still making the pudding smooth and creamy.
Here’s a side-by-side comparison assuming **both recipes make 4 servings**.
### Where the fat comes from
**🥑 Avocado pudding**
* 2 avocados: ~42 g
* Cocoa powder: ~4 g
* **Total: ~46 g**
**🍠 Sweet potato pudding**
* Sweet potatoes: ~0.5 g
* Banana: ~0.4 g
* Cocoa powder: ~4 g
* ½ cup 30-calorie almond milk: ~1.25 g (or about 0.6 g if you only use ¼ cup)
* **Total: ~4–6 g**
### Bottom line
The sweet potato version has about **90% less fat** than the avocado version.
* **Avocado pudding:** ~11.5 g fat per serving
* **Sweet potato pudding:** ~1–1.5 g fat per serving
If your goal is to follow a very low-fat whole-food, plant-based approach like Caldwell Esselstyn recommends, the sweet potato version is much more aligned with that style of eating while still providing a rich, chocolatey dessert.