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Energy balls recipe

My tasty energy balls: date, cocoa & pumpkin seed

With almonds, cinnamon, honey & vanilla

Energy balls recipe

25 mins

Not Too Tricky

makes 12

About the recipe

Me and my nutrition team have worked hard to create these super-nutritious balanced flavour-packed energy balls that give us the perfect snack boost to get us through the day – enjoy two balls per snack.


nutrition per serving

80

Calories


5.2g

Fat


0.6g

Saturates


4.2g

Sugars


NaNg

Salt


2.7g

Protein


6g

Carbs


0.5g

Fibre


of an adult’s reference intake


Recipe From

Everyday Super Food

Everyday Super Food

By Jamie Oliver

Ingredients

70g pumpkin seeds

20g puffed brown rice or puffed quinoa

50g whole almonds

80g Medjool dates

1cm piece of fresh turmeric or ½ teaspoon ground turmeric

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 heaped teaspoon quality cocoa powder

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

½ tablespoon manuka honey

1 orange

Top Tip

Medjool dates have the double benefit of being high in both fibre and chloride, a nutrient that helps our digestion, and we get a hit of copper from the pumpkin seeds.

Method

  1. Blitz 40g of the pumpkin seeds into a fine dust in a food processor, then decant onto a plate.
  2. Place the remaining pumpkin seeds and the puffed rice or quinoa in the processor with the almonds and dates (destone first), then blitz until finely chopped.
  3. Peel and finely grate in the turmeric, if using fresh, or add the ground turmeric, along with the cinnamon, cocoa powder and a pinch of sea salt.
  4. Blitz again until finely ground, then add the vanilla, honey and half the orange juice.
  5. Blitz for another 1 to 2 minutes, stopping to scrape down the sides a couple of times, and adding an extra squeeze of orange juice to bind, only if needed – it takes a while for the mixture to come together, so be patient and let the processor work its magic.
  6. With wet hands, divide into 24 and roll into balls, dropping them into the pumpkin seed dust as you go.
  7. Shake to coat, storing them in the excess dust until needed. They’ll keep happily for up to 2 weeks in an airtight container.

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