Healthy & Nutritious Weightloss Snack – Almond Chocolate Bars
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Ingredients
1 cup almonds
2 cups foxnuts
2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
10 pitted Mejdool dates
20 gm 100% dark chocolate chips for mixture
40 gm 70% dark chocolate chips for top layer
1 tsp coconut oil
3 finely chopped Almonds for garnishing
Method:
1. In a bowl, add pitted dates & soak them in hot water for 30 min. After that, add them to blender & make a paste of dates.
2. In a pan, roast almonds for 6-8 min & then add foxnuts to it. Roast until foxnuts turn crispy.
3. Let them cool down & and transfer into a blender jar and blend till it makes a fine powder.
4. Added it in a mixing bowl along with cocoa powder, chocolate chips, and date paste. Mix everything together to make dough, It should make firm bites.
5. Either you can roll them into balls or you can take a silicone mould like I am using to make the bars or you can transfer the entire material on a parchment paper on a baking sheet and press it down to make a smooth texture from the top layer.
6. Freeze it for 45 minutes to an hour and let it set. Then, take 40 g of chocolate chips in a bowl along with coconut oil and microwave it for one minute with 30 second interval. It should be silky, smooth, melted chocolate.
7. Now take out the bites from the freezer and dipping into the melted chocolate and keep it to let it set, garnish it with some chopped almonds on the top.
Note: if you want to make these bites high protein & want to use it as post workout fuel then add two scoops of vanilla protein in this material
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