Long time ago I bought chopper with the initial idea of preparing raw candies from nuts, dried fruits and berries, avocado, cocoa and so on – healthy, sugarless ingredients. By sugarless I mean without any added sugar (white/brown sugar, honey, peanut butter, etc.). Nuts themselves are sweet, especially gathered with raisins, coconut rasp, dried plums and figs… so, you can easily make yourself candies with healthy ingredients and to eat them all without feeling guilt.
Well, there have been months since I tried to use it, but once I got used to it – this chopper really helped me a lot in my cooking experiments. After using it numerous of times to chop onion, tomatoes and numerous of other things, I finally used it for the initial purpose I bought it for.
What I’ve used for my delicious unbelievably yummy candies?
- 2 packages raw nuts mix (almonds, raisins, peanuts, cashews, etc.) – up to 5 BGN per package ~200 grams
- a handful of walnuts (~150 grams) – up to 15 BGN per kilo
- 2-3 full tablespoons of coconut rasp – up to 2-3 BGN per 300 grams package
- 1-2 tablespoons of cacao – up to 2 BGN per 300 grams package
- you’ll need additional coconut rasp and cacao to powder your candies as final touch
It is pretty simple to do those candies, as you basically wont bake, brew and stew – you’ll only use the chopper and your hands 🙂
- Put your nuts mixture into a bowl with lukewarm water for half an hour or something. Do not go to that more than an hour.
- Drain the nuts and put them into the chopper together with the walnuts, coconut rasp and cacao.
- Chop that mixture into a homogeneous mixture.
- Shape small balls (or bigger if you prefer so) and powder them into coconut rasp or cacao.
- Put them into the fridge for couple of hours or something and then – eat 🙂
