If you were fascinated by the fashionable and useful trend of raw food, and you are enthusiastically trying all new dishes, then this article is for you! In order to more fully complete your diet and make as many delicious dishes as possible, we offer recipes for how to cook raw food sweets. They diversify not only the holiday, but also fit perfectly into the everyday routine. But not only raw foodists will like the recipes presented today, they will interest all the sweet tooth who are watching their figure. Having mastered the preparation of sweets, which does not take much time, you will understand how the food of the adherents of the menu from plant foods can be beautiful and loved.
Advantages of raw food sweets
So, before you start cooking, I want to talk about what to expect from the dish. Raw food sweets, the recipes of which will be presented in this article, will give you an unforgettable taste, remind you of children's sweets. Nutrients, found in large quantities in sweets, will help strengthen immunity, maintain health in the most difficult times. They are also useful for the nervous system, which is a huge plus in our time of constant worries, depression and stress. Well, of course, they will be an excellent occasion to have a bite to eat tea with colleagues at work. Portioned serving will not get your hands dirty.
Cooking for a week
It is unlikely that there will be at least one lucky person who can always dine calmly and fully at lunchtime. At least once each of us resorted to the help of an energy bar to satisfy hunger and recharge for the rest of the day. This does not benefit the body, as the digestive tract suffers. But what to do? After all, you need to swallow something on the go, and let it not be a “tarpaulin” pie bought in a shop that does not inspire the trust of a real gourmet. We will stop at the weekend and prepare raw food sweets on our own, but we will make them large and call them bars. You will be sure of the quality of the cooked food and do not allow your stomach to suffer while processing a suspicious sausage in a dough.
What is useful to us?
I would like to note that all recipes are simple, and even the most inexperienced amateur chef will be able to prepare raw food sweets. The made bars are perfectly stored in the refrigerator throughout the week and are eaten very carefully. To stock up on healthy components and enzymes for their assimilation for the entire working week, you will need:
- 50 grams of fresh, not melted, stretching honey;
- 100 grams of raw nuts of hard varieties, it can be walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds (if desired, all of these);
- 100 grams of your favorite dried fruit, dried apricots and dates are especially good.
If you prepare raw food sweets from dates, then honey will need less, only the amount that will help to “glue” the remaining ingredients, since dates are endowed with incredible sweetness, and the bars can be cloying.
Cooking mass
To start cooking in the morning, it is necessary to soak the nuts used for cooking, soak in water for the night, not forgetting to clean them first. Soak dates or other dried fruits in water, but for forty minutes. After that, rinse them well, dry with a paper towel.
Further instructions will please with its simplicity, you can attract a child to cooking, he will definitely like this! We place absolutely all the ingredients in the blender, set the speed to 500-600 revolutions and grind. If it seemed to you that the mass is unsuitable for comfortable sculpting, add dry ingredients or honey in excess of the specified measure. So, the mass is ready, it remains only to form it into neat sweets or bars!
Step-by-step formation
Take cling film, foil, or parchment paper, and gently put a sticky mass on it. In the future, form neat "sausages" of the required width. You can wrap future sweets with the material completely used for forming, and so put in the refrigerator, or roll sausages in coconut flakes. Thus, you get raw coconut sweets that will not stick to your hands. We send the “modeling” to the refrigerator, wait until it hardens well. After that, we seize for batch slicing. The perfect snack is ready!
Sweet cherry
We offer you to prepare raw food sweets from cashews and cherries. This incredible taste will appeal to even the most capricious lover of sweets! You will need a glass of cashews, a glass of dried cherries, peeled, a glass of dates, also devoid of bones. Take as much honey as you need to form sweets. If you like cinnamon, you can add it, you get a specific aroma and taste! Just don’t overdo it, cinnamon is an insidious seasoning, it can complement a dish, or it can ruin it! In the future, follow the same cooking principle as described above!
Dried Fruit Seed Candy
You’ll need a glass of any hard nuts that are soaked in water for at least eight hours. Flax or sesame seeds, ground in a coffee grinder, in the amount of half a glass are added. Another is one glass of various favorite dried fruits (apples, dates, raisins, prunes and others), a well-ripened fruit (a peach, pear or nectarine will fit). Take honey to your liking.
We clean the fruit and dried fruits, place them in a blender with all the other components, sculpt the bars or roll the balls to make round sweets.
Raw Food Truffles
To cook such raw food sweets, honey will not be useful to us. The treat will be sweet enough, and now you will know why.
Take a glass of hazelnuts or peeled walnuts. Other types will not work, the taste will be completely different from what we want to get. It will also take half a glass of dates, one third of a glass of freshly squeezed apple juice. It will help to mold sweets and give extra sweetness. If you want, you can take an acidic apple. For deboning, you need carob powder.
Prepare the mass in the usual way, and when sculpting sweets, use carob for "breading".
Date sweets
We offer a more complicated recipe, but you will get truly delicious raw food sweets. Dates come in handy to us fresh in the amount of one hundred grams. Also take sweet carrots, it will need 150 grams, and also in equal proportions, about 50 grams, raisins and walnuts. You also need honey, no more than a tablespoon, to taste - orange zest, cinnamon, cardamom and ginger. For boning, take coconut.
The carrots will need to be grated on the smallest grater to squeeze it from the juice to the maximum. We remove bones from dates. All components are placed in a blender, scroll until a homogeneous mass is obtained. We put the cup in the refrigerator, wait until the mass thickens, then we form sweets in the form of balls, roll in the chips obtained from coconut pulp.
We are saturated with vitamins
We offer to prepare raw food sweets that will help get rid of vitamin deficiency, increase hemoglobin in the blood, remove any signs of colds and flu, and help cure inflammation! Anyway, they are a great sweet that will appeal to both kids and adults. To prepare a healthy treat you will need the following products: ginger, dried apricots, raisins, any nuts, sunflower seeds (unroasted, we practice raw food!), Lemon, honey, sesame seeds, and an aloe plant, also called agave because of its healing properties.
We process dried fruits and nuts, as described in previous recipes (soak, clean), turn a half of the lemon into juice. We pack all the ingredients except sesame seeds in a blender. Aloe is useful only one leaf, the remaining components should be so much that candy is comfortably molded. We grind everything into a sticky mass, roll the formed sweets in sesame.
If you eat two such sweets every day for a week, then you will certainly increase your immunity and tone, replenish the supply of vitamins. Hair and skin will get a healthy look, and you will noticeably prettier!
"Delight"
These are raw coconut sweets that everyone will like! You decorate them beautifully and serve them to guests. Cooking does not require a lot of food and time. What we need?
- two dried or fresh bananas (slices);
- pulp of one coconut;
- living cocoa;
- orange zest.
We turn coconut pulp and bananas into a homogeneous mass. In a coffee grinder, we chop cocoa, and finely chop the zest, or make small chips from it. If you have silicone molds - great! We fill them with a mass of future sweets, sprinkle with cocoa powder and zest. We put it in the refrigerator and wait until the treat "reaches". If there are no forms, then form sausages using foil or cling film, add them and cut into sweets that are necessary in size. Sprinkle them with cocoa and zest.
Raw Chocolate Chocolates
If you practice raw food, this does not mean that you have to forget the taste of chocolate! We offer to prepare delicious raw food sweets. The recipes are again outrageously simple. To begin with, we will prepare everyone’s favorite cherry, from which our chocolate treats will be obtained.
For ten berries, you need three tablespoons of live cocoa, cocoa butter one spoon, the same amount of honey, a little ground chili. To make it more convenient for you to cook sweets and then eat them, leave the pedicels on the berries. Make chocolate: cocoa butter softens in a water bath, ground cocoa (live), honey and pepper are added. Dip the berries free of bones in a chocolate mass and put them in the freezer for fifteen minutes.
You can make a chocolate treat according to another recipe: choose any raw food sweets (recipes with photos are above), but to make them chocolate, dip each candy in chocolate made from live cocoa. For a special flavor, you can add orange juice to chocolate.
All raw foodists and people who care about their health - bon appetit!