Recipes

Fruit and Nut Balls

Posted on
December 8, 2020

Healthy snacks can be hard to find. These fruit and nut protein, snack balls will hit the spot! Packed with wholefoods of nuts, dried fruit, coconut and honey they are an easy snack to make at home. With a cup of tea, pre or post a workout or at anytime of day you will enjoy these balls of goodness.

Makes 25 delicious balls

Ingredients

100g walnuts

100g dry roasted almonds

2 tablespoons sunflower seeds

160g dried dates

100g dried apricots

100g desiccated coconut

3 tablespoons tahini paste

1 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil

2 tablespoons cacoa or cocoa powder

3 tablespoons honey

Dash of cinnamon if desired

Method

Add nuts into food processor and blend until fine breadcrumb texture.

Add in all remaining ingredients and blend until mixture starts to form into a ball or can be pressed into balls.  You may need to add a little extra oil the mixture isn’t holding together.

With slightly wet hands roll a heaped tablespoon amount of mixture together to form a ball.

You can roll in extra coconut or coca powder if desired.

Store in an air tight container in the fridge.

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