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gluten_freeI had some leftover dates and a dream, so I whipped these up. Tastes like a Larabar Lemon Bar, but better. Tastes like lemon candy. Low effort and based on these no bake lemon bliss balls.
Ingredients:
120 grams dates, pitted—I used deglet noor ~15 dates
1/2 cup raw nuts—something mild: almonds, cashews, Brazil nuts
1 Tablespoon lemon zest
1-2 Tablespoons lemon juice
pinch of kosher salt
Time: 10 minutes or less.
Tools: Food processor fitted with S blade, or an appropriately powered blender.
Instructions:
0. If your dates are sad and dry, soak them in hot water for 15 minutes. Save the water in case you need to thin out your bites later.
1. In your machine, throw everything together and pulse until the dates are a paste and the nuts are chopped finely, but stop before they turn into nut butter. If you pinch the mixture between your fingers and it sticks together, you're done. Give it a taste to see if you need to adjust anything.
2. Or if, like me, you have a miserable food processor: Put the nuts in alone and process until they're finely chopped. Remove them. Process the dates until they're a paste. Then add the nuts and the rest of the ingredients and blend until just combined.
3. Roll into balls, press into silicon mini-muffin molds, or just decant into a container so you can eat it with a spoon later. I did that last one. I was too mad at my food processor to spend one more second on these even though they were delicious. My nuts were somewhat...rugged.
4. Store in an air-tight container in the refrigerator for about a week, or in the freezer for much longer.
Notes: I used 1/4 cup raw (i.e. unroasted) cashews (36 grams) and 1/4 cup blanched almonds (44 grams). I had a monster lemon and got a tablespoon of zest from it, but just go ahead and use the zest of one lemon if you don't want a bunch of denuded lemons hanging around. I put in 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and created a Powerful Lemon Experience, so if you want less power in your bites, use less lemon juice.
Use wet hands or a disher to form your bites. If your mixture is too dry or too wet to stick together properly, you can add nut butter, water, applesauce, flax meal, dried coconut, almond flour, protein powder, chia seeds—whatever you like.
Questions? Ask 'em!
Ingredients:
120 grams dates, pitted—I used deglet noor ~15 dates
1/2 cup raw nuts—something mild: almonds, cashews, Brazil nuts
1 Tablespoon lemon zest
1-2 Tablespoons lemon juice
pinch of kosher salt
Time: 10 minutes or less.
Tools: Food processor fitted with S blade, or an appropriately powered blender.
Instructions:
0. If your dates are sad and dry, soak them in hot water for 15 minutes. Save the water in case you need to thin out your bites later.
1. In your machine, throw everything together and pulse until the dates are a paste and the nuts are chopped finely, but stop before they turn into nut butter. If you pinch the mixture between your fingers and it sticks together, you're done. Give it a taste to see if you need to adjust anything.
2. Or if, like me, you have a miserable food processor: Put the nuts in alone and process until they're finely chopped. Remove them. Process the dates until they're a paste. Then add the nuts and the rest of the ingredients and blend until just combined.
3. Roll into balls, press into silicon mini-muffin molds, or just decant into a container so you can eat it with a spoon later. I did that last one. I was too mad at my food processor to spend one more second on these even though they were delicious. My nuts were somewhat...rugged.
4. Store in an air-tight container in the refrigerator for about a week, or in the freezer for much longer.
Notes: I used 1/4 cup raw (i.e. unroasted) cashews (36 grams) and 1/4 cup blanched almonds (44 grams). I had a monster lemon and got a tablespoon of zest from it, but just go ahead and use the zest of one lemon if you don't want a bunch of denuded lemons hanging around. I put in 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and created a Powerful Lemon Experience, so if you want less power in your bites, use less lemon juice.
Use wet hands or a disher to form your bites. If your mixture is too dry or too wet to stick together properly, you can add nut butter, water, applesauce, flax meal, dried coconut, almond flour, protein powder, chia seeds—whatever you like.
Questions? Ask 'em!