RECIPE
REISHI PROTEIN LATTE
Skip the coffee jitters and kickstart your day with a natural, nourishing boost!
Swap caffeine for a blend of cacao and reishi, a calming super mushroom that grounds and energizes. Mixed with hot water, protein, and healthy fats, it makes for a rich, earthy latte.
Elevate your experience by pairing this rich, earthy latte with a generous serving of chia pudding for an added fiber boost. This satiating trio of protein, fat, and fiber ensures stable blood sugar levels and sustained energy—say goodbye to mid-morning crashes!
Ingredients
MAKES 1 POTION
▪ 3/4 cup hot water
▪ 2 scoops vanilla grass-fed beef protein powder
▪ 2 Tablespoons cacao paste
▪ ½ teaspoon reishi extract powder (optional)
▪ ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
▪ 2 Tablespoons ghee or nut butter
Instructions
Heat your water in an electric kettle.
Pour 3/4 cups hot water in a high-speed blender jar, and add the remaining ingredients.
Blend mixture on high for 40 seconds until creamy and frothy.
Pour into your favorite handmade cup — and let your nervous system revel in this warm, stress-reducing hug in a mug.
Notes
Cacao Paste
I always use cacao as a base for alchemizing a rich, earthy, grounding potion. The key to making it especially delicious? Using an heirloom variety of cacao paste that (unlike cacao powder) has not been separated from it’s natural fat content. Cacao paste comes in large blocks of solid cacao which I chop into tiny chocolate bits for daily consumption. Cacao paste is a bit pricier than cacao powder but superior in nutrient-density and richness. It makes the thickest, most buttery chocolate elixir.
Reishi
I find myself gravitating towards super herbs that help me shift into a restorative mode. So my favorite super mushroom is calming reishi. To experience the full calming-effects caused by the medicinal compounds in reishi, product integrity is important. And by “product integrity” I mean a bitter — really bitter — mushroom dual-extract that is high in beta-glucans but low in starch (which dilutes the medicinal compounds). Basically: an extract made of the fruiting bodies only, not including the mycelium.