I may have eaten a pound of chocolate last night. Whatever. There’s always time to work it off with a four or five-mile run today (maybe). AND there’s also time to make snacks.
I love snack foods, perhaps a bit too much. When I came across a recipe on Running With Real Food for lime and coconut energy bites, I knew I had to make some of my own. Here was my crack at the recipe:
Oh boy, they were absolutely delicious! I altered the recipe a bit to add more varieties of nuts in it (the original recipe called for 1 cup of cashews).
Nutty Lime & Coconut Bites
Ingredients
- 1 cup medjool dates, pitted
- 1/3 cup raw cashews
- 1/3 cup roasted unsalted sliced almonds
- 1/3 cup roasted unsalted pistachios
- 2/3 cup flaked coconut, unsweetened
- 2 TBS lime juice
Instructions
- Place all nuts and coconut in a food processor and mix until they are coarsely chopped.
- Add dates to the nut and coconut mix and chop again. A sticky dough should start to form.
- Add lime juice into the mixture and blend one last time.
- Scoop out a small bit of dough and shape it into a small ball.
- Repeat until you have formed all of the dough into balls.
- Enjoy immediately or store them in the refrigerator.
Notes
Adapted from Running on Real Food
- If your medjool dates are dry, soak them in water first for about 10 minutes.
- I like making smaller bites, so I was able to make 20 balls with this recipe. The original recipe was for 12 servings.
- You could also experiment with other seeds and nuts, but the pistachio/almond/cashew mixture worked for me.
- It is best to store these nutty lime bites in the refrigerator because it helps maintain the shape of them. They get very sticky if stored in room temperature.
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Make these snacks this weekend, and let me know what you think!
Kristin says
Amazing!! Love this!!!