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Three brunch recipes that make Easter morning feel like an occasion without keeping you in the kitchen for it.
Easter brunch has a particular problem: everyone arrives at once, and nobody wants to be cooking while they do. The three recipes below are chosen partly for that — one is a pitcher-style drink, one batters up the night before, and one is assembled cold in ten minutes.
All three use moringa as a hero ingredient. Moringa is the leaf of the moringa oleifera tree, dried whole and milled — 92 nutrients, 47 antioxidants and all nine essential amino acids, with more protein, iron, fiber and calcium per gram than kale. It is naturally caffeine-free, which is the useful part at a table with children at it.
Moringa Hot Chai
Serves 2 · 15 minutes · Make the spiced base a day ahead
A warm, spiced brunch drink with the comfort of chai and none of the caffeine. Cardamom and clove sit beautifully on moringa's green note.
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 2 moringa tea bags
- Honey, to taste
- 3 whole cloves
- ¼ tsp ground cardamom
- 1 pinch ground nutmeg
- 1 cup almond milk
Directions
Bring the water to a boil, then take it off the heat and add the tea bags, honey, cloves, cardamom and nutmeg. Let it sit 5 minutes — steeping off the boil keeps the moringa from turning bitter. Return to a low heat, pour in the almond milk and bring back just to a simmer, not a rolling boil, or the milk will split. Strain through a sieve and serve hot.
Make ahead: brew the spiced tea base the night before and refrigerate. In the morning it needs only the milk and two minutes on the stove.
Moringa Oat Pancakes
Makes 8–10 small pancakes · 20 minutes · Batter can rest overnight
Blended oats give these a soft, slightly nutty crumb, and the banana means they need very little added sugar.
Ingredients
- 1 cup rolled oats, dry-toasted and blended to a coarse flour
- ½ cup whole wheat flour
- 1 tsp honey
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp moringa powder
- A pinch of baking soda
- 4 tbsp Greek yogurt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ripe banana, mashed
- Milk, to reach a thick pouring consistency
Directions
Whisk the dry ingredients together first, including the moringa — folding powder into a wet batter leaves green streaks. Add the yogurt, vanilla and mashed banana, then loosen with milk a splash at a time until the batter ribbons off the spoon but is not runny. Let it rest 10 minutes; the oat flour needs it. Cook over low-to-medium heat in a lightly oiled pan, 2–3 minutes a side. Low heat matters — these brown faster than a standard pancake.
Make ahead: the batter holds overnight in the fridge. Loosen it with a little milk before cooking.
Moringa Avocado Salad
Serves 4 as a side · 10 minutes · Dressing keeps 3 days
The counterweight to a rich brunch table, and the dressing is worth making double of.
For the dressing
- 2 tbsp sunflower oil
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 ½ tsp mustard
- 2 tsp minced garlic
- 1 tsp moringa powder
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 cup grated feta
- Salt and black pepper to taste
For the salad
- 4 cups baby spinach
- 1 avocado, chopped
- 1 cucumber, sliced
- ¼ cup red onion, diced
- Salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Whisk the oil, lemon juice, mustard, garlic and moringa powder together until emulsified, then stir in the mayonnaise and feta and season. Combine the salad ingredients in a bowl, season, and dress just before serving — avocado and dressed spinach both go limp if they sit. Soak the diced red onion in cold water for five minutes first if you want its edge taken off.
Make ahead: the dressing keeps three days in a sealed jar. Shake before using.
Putting the table together
Chai base and pancake batter the night before; salad dressing whenever you have ten spare minutes in the week. On the morning itself you are cooking pancakes and tossing a salad, which is about as much as anyone should be doing on Easter Sunday.
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