Never Buy Another Energy Bar Again With This Homemade Date and Pecan Ball Recipe

If you’re looking for a delicious and healthy alternative to provide your body with energy look no further. Energy dense food bite-sized balls will leave you energized and relatively full from just eating one or two of them.

This recipe is great for people like you and me, especially if you are busy and need a snack to power you through your day. They are a healthy alternative to the energy bars that have taken the world by storm over the last couple of years.

But it’s time to move on and find a better source of energy. Don’t get stuck following the norm, look for new and exciting recipes that can do much more for you. So start here today and take a look at this awesome energy packed recipe.

Here is the list of ingredients you will need to ensure that you produce the most delicious and healthy energy balls.

Ingredients:

– 10 delicious dates

– A rather large teaspoon of cocoa powder

– Dried coconut shreds, which is optional depending how you feel

– Raw cashews, which are also optional

– Gather 1 cup of raw pecans

– And some nice Goji berries, which once again are optional

Once you gathered you ingredients you can continue on to the actual cooking part of this process. Here are the directions that will give you the best energy balls you’ve ever tasted!

Directions:

1. The first step is to soak your delicious dates. Try to do this with room temperature water roughly an hour before you do anything else. If you find that you are short on time you can place your dates in hot water. The goal is to soften the dates to be able to give them a paste like texture.

2. Measure one cup of raw pecans and place them in a food processor. If you have digestive problems you should soak the nuts and dry them with a towel afterwards.

3. Use the food processor, or blender, to process the pecans by using a pulse setting to get them nice and ground. Make sure you don’t ground them up too much; you want nicely ground pecans, nothing that resembles butter.

4. Then you are going to go ahead and add a hefty teaspoon of beautiful cocoa powder. However, if you are not a chocolate lover you can skip this step.

5. Once you’ve added the cocoa powder you must then pulse the mixture again to combine the pecans and cocoa.

6. Then add six soaked and crushed dates to your mixture. Add a little bit of water to to create the proper texture. Creating this texture is very important to the process. To get the best water to date ratio pull them out of the water and mush them lightly with your fingers. Then add the slightly wet, and mushed, dates to your pecan and cocoa mixture.

7. Once again pulse this mixture using your food processor, or blender, until the dates and pecans become one texture. The goal is to get the texture to a point where you can pinch off chunks of the mixture to role up into bite-size balls. You can always add a few more mushed up dates if you’re not happy with the portions. But be careful you don’t add to many dates or you texture will suffer and it will not mesh well with the nuts.

8. The last step is to role the bite-sized balls into cocoa powder or dried coconut to give them even more flavor. You can finish them off by adding raw nuts or berries on top of each individual ball.

Now here’s why this recipe will not only improve your life, but also create some fun and excitement. First off, this recipe is very easy and extremely manageable with regards to the ingredients that you need. Chances are you can find all your ingredients in and around the house somewhere. I’d check the kitchen and pantry first, but that’s just me.

Recipes like this can be very fun to follow, especially because you have so much freedom with regards to toppings and flavors. You can change up how you dress them up so you never have to enjoy the same recipe over and over.

Energy balls like this are an excellent replacement for expensive energy bars that you may find yourself buying once in a while. Not to mention that these bite-sized balls are much healthier than any energy bar on the market.

So the next time you are looking for a quick, easy and delicious source of energy look no further than this energy dense food recipe. Do some exploring when it comes to making bite-sized energy balls and make them your very own.