Brain Talks ~ Recipes: 10 Unique Recipes to Boost Memory and Heal the Brain

On Tuesday, I published a list of foods to boost memory and heal the brain. The following recipes combine foods from list, which you can find below. For more detailed information on each food, you can find the article here..

1. Avocado 
2. Eggs 
3. Coconut oil 
4. Dark Chocolate 
5. Pumpkin seeds 
6. Kale 
7. Extra Virgin Olive Oil 
8. Sea vegetables 
9. Fermented foods 

For each of these recipes, I tried to combine more than one food from the list into each recipe. For the most part, I was successful, with a couple exceptions. Here we go!

Paletas de Aguacate y Coco

(Avocado and Coconut Popsicles)

Muy Bueno

This unique recipe combines brain healthy avocado and coconut in one wonderful recipe!

Green Goddess Juice

Zesty South Indian Kitchen

This recipe combines kale and avocado in a brain healthy detox smoothie/juice.
If you don’t like avocado or kale, smoothies are a great way to add them to your diet.

Creamed spinach and kale with fried egg

Food Republic

If you’re not a fan of leafy greens, you can’t go wrong with combining baby spinach and baby kale in a creamy sauce. Serve it with a brain healthy egg for a great meal!

Coconut Oil Keto Granola

The Keto Summit

This recipe combines 3 brain healthy foods: nuts (walnuts & almonds), seeds (pumpkin seeds, and coconut oil. Add this into some gut healthy fermented yogurt for a winning brain healthy combination.

Vegan Nut-Free Coconut Oil Kale Pesto

Natural Comfort Kitchen

This recipe is a wonderful and flavor packed way to add 3 important brain foods into your meal. This pesto includes pumpkin seeds, kale and coconut oil, along with cilantro, lime, garlic and ginger to make a delightful pesto sauce.

Paleo Dark Chocolate Bites

All Recipes

This recipes uses coconut oil and cocoa powder to make indulgent and delicious homemade dark chocolate bars. I would recommend replacing the cocoa powder with RAW CACAO.

Anti-Inflammatory Turmeric Recipe

for Salad Dressing

Combining Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Turmeric, this salad dressing is the perfect addition to your brain healthy leafy greens salad.

Sea Vegetables.

I find the best way to add sea vegetables to the diet is to season foods, sauces, soups, etc, with dulsi granules, such as the ones below. You can find them HERE.

Korean Rolled Omelette With Seaweed

Kitchen Bowl

If you’re looking for more than just seasoning, how about this traditional rolled omelette from Korea, which combines brain healthy eggs AND Nori (a type of seaweed)

DIY Coconut Milk Yogurt

Joyous Health

What better way to get healthy coconut fat AND fermented foods than with coconut milk yogurt you make yourself? This recipe only has 2 ingredients and couldn’t be easier!! Serve this with your keto granola for a winning, brain healthy combo!

How to Make a Turmeric Bug

Grow Forage Cook Ferment

FERMENTED TURMERIC ROOT!!! Turmeric is a wonderful root with so many brain healthy and anti-inflammatory priorities. Fermenting it is a brilliant idea and, with just 3 ingredients, is SUPER easy. It just requires a bit of patience. Colleen recommends using it to make some homemade soda, like THESE. Or just add it to salads or smoothies for a gut and brain health boost!

Closing thoughts

I hope you enjoyed reading through the list. As I always say, cooking healthy doesn’t have to be boring. It just requires a bit of creativity and ingenuity, like replacing an unhealthy ingredient with one of the brain healthy foods from this week’s list.

Until next time, namaste my friends

Tamara