Food & Wine
Fruit energy balls
These delicious energy balls are easy to make and just the tonic for an afternoon where you’ve got lots of chores but would like to snack on something healthy.
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ cups of your choice of dried fruit – choose from prunes, dates, soft dried apricots, goji berries and/or figs, all pitted and roughly chopped
- ½ cup walnut OR use cashews, pepitas or Brazil nuts
- ½ cup almonds
- ½ cup raw cacao powder
- 2 tablespoons desiccated coconut
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons coconut fat or 3 tablespoons tahini
- Extra for coating:
- Raw cacao powder, chopped pepitas, goji berries, desiccated coconut, chopped almonds OR sesame seeds
Method:
- Place the dried fruit in the processor first, then the rest of the ingredients leaving the coconut fat until last. Blitz until smooth and a glossy mix.
- If needed, add 1-2 tablespoons of hot water so that the mix forms a soft ball.
- The mix should be firm and sticky, but not mushy.
- Using a tablespoon for measuring, roll the mixture into balls about the size of a walnut.
- Then toss the balls in your choice of coating.
- Leave one hour in the fridge to firm up.
- Store covered in fridge or in the freezer for later consumption.
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