10 Best Sabja Seeds (Basil Seeds) Recipes

One of the most underrated ingredients that you can use if you are sabja seeds or also known as basil seeds. There aren’t a lot of people who use these seeds even though they are actually very uniquely flavorful and beneficial to our health. The fact that they have inflammatory properties and healthy fatty acids make it questionable why it isn’t as popularly used as it is. That said, here are some of the best sabja seeds recipes you can use if you want a flavorful way to incorporate these seeds into your meals.

1. Basil seed porridge

One of the most popular ways you can use sabja seeds is by turning them into porridge. That’s because basil seeds, when combined with liquid ingredients can develop a mushy kind of texture that is pretty perfect for porridges. This makes it an ideal ingredient that you can use if you are looking to make a porridge.

So, what you may want to do here is to make a buckwheat porridge using buckwheat and sabja seeds. You can combine the two ingredients together with coconut milk for that creamy and flavorful texture. After that, you can then add more ingredients to give it more flavor such as simple spices like vanilla. Finally, top the entire porridge off with anything else that you fancy such as berries, nuts, and even more seeds.

2. Lemonade

So, the easiest way that you can make a good recipe out of sabja seeds as your main ingredient is by incorporating them into different kinds of drinks that you fancy. This is a very simple way of using these seeds as they are able to soak in water when they are added to drinks. When they soak in water, they give you a nice kind of bubbly texture that is similar to boba but only much smaller.

That said, one of the simplest drinks you can make out of sabja seeds is the tried and tested lemonade, which is a classic among different homes. All you need to do here is to squeeze in some fresh lemons into a glass of cold water and then add a bit of sweetness with a teaspoon of sugar or honey. From there, you can pour in some sabja seeds before stirring the entire drink up as you allow the seeds to soak up the moisture and develop a mushy texture that’s perfect for your lemonade.

3. Melon Lemonade

There are plenty of derivatives you can get from the classic lemonade and sabja recipe. That’s because drinks are very versatile when you are using sabja seeds together with them. Of course, by adding a few ingredients here and there, you can turn your drink into a more unique concoction that comes with plenty of different flavors.

Melon is one of the ingredients that can instantly change your sabja seed lemonade. By adding half a melon or melon syrup into your usual lemonade, you can make the drink more flavorful and refreshing because of how these two fruits complement each other in terms of their sweet and citrusy flavors.

4. Panna cotta

If you love your classic panna cotta, you are going to love it even better when you use sabja seeds as one of the main ingredients. That’s because the seeds another layer of flavor and texture to the recipe. Of course, sabja seeds can make your usual panna cotta into a healthy recipe that comes with the benefits that you can get from these seeds.

To make this recipe, do the usual thing you do with panna cotta by heating up milk and cream in a saucepan before turning the flame off and adding ingredients such as vanilla and lemongrass, which you should be mixing into the milk and cream. Discard them after infusing them into the milk and cream. 

In a separate pan, add jam puree, lemon juice and zest, sugar, and water, and allow the mixture to boil before letting it simmer. Wait until it thickens before you turn the heat off. Let it cool completely. Then, in a bowl, let gelatin bloom in the water and then mix the milk and cream together with the bloomed gelatin.

Pour the milk and cream mixture into a serving glass and then top the mixture with sabja seeds. From there, you can go and get your sauce, which should be topped on the milk and cream mixture. Add more basil seeds if you prefer.

Here are basil seeds form True Leaf Market if you are from U.S.

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5. Coconut water lemonade

We have yet another amazing lemonade derivative that perfectly mixes the fresh flavors of lemonade, coconut, and sabja seeds. This gives you a more flavorful and thicker version of your classic lemonade while also adding more nutrients thanks to the amazing properties that coconut water comes with.

So, this recipe is quite simple in the sense that all you need to do is to take water out of the equation. Instead, use coconut water instead of your usual water so that you will have an amazing fruity and refreshing lemonade with sabja seeds.

6. Cucumber and sabja syrup

The goal here isn’t exactly to make a drink but to make a syrup that can go well with a lot of different recipes. Essentially, we are using cucumber and basil seeds to make this flavorful, refreshing, and healthy syrup that you can add to your drinks and anything else that you fancy.

So, what you can do here is to heat up about half a cup of water with half a cup of sugar or a quarter of a cup of honey. Use a lighter kind of honey and allow the mixture to simmer. From there, place slices of cucumber into the mixture and then your favorite sabja seeds. You can either keep the seeds and the cucumber in the syrup or strain them out before putting the syrup in a jar after letting it cool down.

7. Tropical smoothie

This tropical smooth is a great way for you to enjoy a lot of different refreshing flavors that go well together. Of course, the star of this smoothie comes in the form of the sabja seeds, which add a different kind of flavor and texture to your usual fruit smoothie. Of course, the seeds only make the smoothie healthier than it is.

So, what you need to do here is to use coconut milk as your base instead of using water. Put the coconut milk in the blender together with other ingredients such as mango and other soft fruits that you may want to add such as banana. Puree the fruits together with the coconut milk inside the blender before topping the smoothie off with sabja seeds. Allow the seeds to soak into the smoothie before serving.

8. Pineapple lemonade

Also known as kulukki serbat, this pineapple limeade is a great way for you to combine pineapple, sabja seeds, and plenty of different other ingredients such as chilies to make a unique flavor that you probably won’t be able to get in other types of drinks. It’s exotic and tropical both at the same time.

The first thing you need to do is to cut lime into two while removing the pips in the lime. Allow the sabja seeds to soak in lukewarm water so that you can soften them up and allow them to develop a mush consistency. In a jar, pour the sabja seeds together with chopped pineapples and a teaspoon of honey before adding a pinch of salt and a few slices of green chilies. You finish the entire concoction off by adding soda water and shaking the mixture well.

9. Nam manglak

Don’t let the name fool you just because you don’t know what this drink is. In fact, nam manglak is a pretty easy and basic drink that you can make using sabja seeds as the stars of the entire concoction. And the other ingredients that you can use are also just as basic and as easy to find. This makes it a very easy drink to make whenever you have a few minutes to spare.

So, what you need to do here is to simply add the ingredients together. This involves using sparkling water, basil seeds, honey, a teaspoon of rose water, and lime. Now, the key here is to combine the ingredients based on your taste preferences such as adding more honey or lime to the mixture if you prefer to have a sweeter and more refreshing taste. But the point here is that nam manglak is an easy drink to make as you are combining unique flavors together with sabja seeds to make a mixture that is sweet, fruity, refreshing, and quite healthy.

10. The old classic

What we mean by the old classic here is to do whatever you want to do with sabja seeds based on your preferences. The goal here is simple: soak the sabja seeds in water and allow them to develop a mushier texture while they also increase in size. This will allow you to use the sabja seeds in a lot of different recipes after they have soaked up the water.

While you can use these sabja seeds for a lot of different fruit-based drinks, you can actually add them to the daily breakfast oatmeal or granola that you eat on a regular basis. But the most unique way of using them is to top the seeds on your ice cream regardless of whatever flavor the ice cream might be. This will make the ice cream more flavorful and healthy both at the same time.

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