Hello there. I’m Trish, aka Nutrishus. Welcome to my weekly column where I will share with you delicious, nutritious recipes that I have created in order to add flavor to your life in a conscious way! You can find all of my recipes, research articles and cooking shows on my website: www.nutrishus.wordpress.com. Follow me for updates via email! @Nutrishus8 on Instagram @Nutrishus8 on Twitter
Raw Brownie Bites:
As I prepared the ingredients for my raw brownie bites in Studio A last week for our filming of StagsTV’s cooking show, “Nutrishus,” I was anxiously awaiting the reactions from my fellow crew members and the rest of my friends at the media center who decided to stop by. Luckily, their reactions were so good that I had to continue making more and ran out of my ingredients altogether by the time we had finished filming. In case all of this positive feedback is causing you to drool in anticipation as well, I now present you with my favorite and surprisingly incredibly healthy, clean and guilt-free dessert: Raw Brownie Bites. This recipe is my own adaptation from the lovely ladies of The Conscious Cleanse, a 19-day detoxification, clean-eating program which I completed in January that taught me even more about nutrition (daily posts illustrating that journey can be found on my blog). The CC team make their Raw Brownie recipe with dates, walnuts and cacao and cut them into squares. Here is my pumped-up version:
Nutrishus Raw Brownie Bites
• 1 cup raw, organic walnuts (adding more for texture as desired)
• 1 cup Medjool fancy dates, pitted (such as Trader Joe’s brand)
• 3/4 cup raw, unsweetened, cacao (such as Dagoba brand)
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
• 1 tablespoon unsweetened, unrefined, organic coconut oil
• honey if desired, for coating with coconut
• dry unsweetened coconut flakes
Blend your walnuts, pitted dates, cacao, sea salt and coconut oil in a food processor (or Nutribullet for example) until blended well. You’ll be left with a chunk of the mixture, which almost resembles cookie dough, and can easily be formed into balls. You’re going to do just that! Form into one-inch balls, and either roll first in honey and then coconut flakes or simply roll into balls and press coconut flakes onto the bites. Special thanks to Max McVay’14 who thought of this trick as we were filming; the honey coating allows for a thicker layer of coconut and added sweetness. I usually do sans-honey as I think the dates are sweet enough though, but you be the taste tester!
Bon appétit et Bonne santé, Trish
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