🏷️ Category: antipasti
⭐ Difficulty: Medium
⏱️ Time: 45 min
📝 Introduction
Need a gluten free, dairy free, paleolithic, and lacto ovo vegetarian hor d'oeuvre? Chocolate Pistachio Energy Bites could be an excellent recipe to try. For 57 cents per serving, this recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe makes 15 servings with 110 calori
🥘 Ingredients
• pistachios0.5 cup
• coconut0.5 cup
• cocoa powder0.25 cup
• salt0.25
• vanilla1 teaspoon
• medjool dates14
• chocolate15 servings
👨🍳 Cooking Steps
1
Soak the dates in warm water for about 10 minutes.
2
Drain.
3
In your food processor, combine pistachios, shredded coconut, cocoa powder, and salt. Pulse until finely ground.
4
Add in vanilla and the softened mejool dates and pulse until a ball forms.
5
Roll into bite sized balls (mine were about tablespoons) and dip immediately in to cocoa powder, shredded coconut, or my personal favorite dark chocolate that's been melted with a *hint* of coconut oil.
6
Enjoy immediately! Store the leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge.
7
NOTES
8
Cocoa powder is extremely bitter, so make sure you like the taste before rolling all of them in cocoa powder. My personal favorites are the shredded coconut or dark chocolate! :)
