Apricot & Citrus Raw Bars
27 Jul 17 |
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These bars are delicious raw as our recipe here calls for or can be topped with melted dark chocolate to create a healthy jaffa cake alternative. You will need a food processor or mini chop-type blender and a 9” x 9” pan lined with a long, overhanging length of cling film/food wrap for this recipe. Recipe and photo by Kellie Anderson, MSc - get more recipes like this from kelliesfoodtoglow.com.
Ingredients
- 75g moist dates, stoned and roughly chopped
- 50g oats
- 215g raw cashews, soaked for 15 minutes in hot water and drained
- 1tsp ground cinnamon
- 1tsp ground turmeric
- A grind or two of black pepper
- 200g dried, un-sulphured apricots
- One clementine/satsuma or half a medium orange, juiced and finely zested
- ½tsp vanilla extract
Method
- Blend together the dates, oats, cashews, cinnamon, turmeric and salt until clumping together and sticky.
- Scrape the mixture out of the food processor and press two-thirds into the cling film-lined pan or dish. Put the remaining mixture aside.
- Wipe out or clean the food processor bowl and blitz the remaining ingredients. Spread this mixture evenly over the nutty base.
- Dot over the remaining nutty mixture and press down evenly. Press down firmly, as you want the whole thing to stay together as cut bars.
- Pop in the freezer for half an hour; remove the cling film and cut into bars.
Apricot| Black Pepper| Cashews| Cinnamon| Clementine| Dates| Oats| Orange| Satsuma| Turmeric| Vanilla