Spiced Quinoa pudding with baked pears – GoGo Quinoa

Ingredients

• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 3 cloves
• 3 cardamom pods (cracked open)
• ¾ cup of GoGo Quinoa’s Royal Red Quinoa rinsed and drained
• 1 ¼ cups almond milk
• 1 ¾ cups coconut milk
• 1 41 gram package of pure creamed coconut (optional but it makes pudding extra rich and creamy)
• ¼ cup coconut sugar, dark brown sugar, alternatively maple syrup (plus more according to taste)
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• Pinch salt
• ¼ tsp lime zest
• 2 large ripe pears
• ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
• ¼ tsp ground cardamom
• ¼ tsp ground Nutmeg
• 2 tsp honey
• ¼ cup crushed walnuts