2-Ingredient Energy Balls
"Here’s another super easy recipe for delicious raw 2-ingredient energy balls. They are completely vegan and great for those who want to enjoy some healthy sweet truffles, but don’t want to eat nuts and fats. The best part about this recipe is that it requires no machines and the only ingredients you need are dates and oats or oat flour, as well as a fork. Optionally, you can add nuts, seeds, shredded coconut, other dried fruit or cocoa powder in the mixture, but those 2 ingredients work perfectly fine for this recipe. Since I tried making part of my energy balls with whole oats, and the other part – with oat flour, I found out that the preparation is a bit different, I’ll write down both recipes. It turns out that the truffles with whole oats look a bit more appealing, but the ones with oat flour taste a bit better since the mixture is more homogeneous and the flavors are perfectly combined. However, if you like the taste of oat, you’ll love the version with whole oats since their taste pops out a bit more there."
Makes20 balls
Preparation Time15 min
Chilling Time1 hr
Ingredients
- 1 cup dates
- 2 cup oats
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Soak your dates in water for a few hours. Take them out of the water and mash them, but this time keep the water as well, we’ll use it later.
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If you want, add some condiments and tahini to your mashed dates and mix everything well. Then, add the oats little by little while mixing. You’ll notice that since the oats are a bit dry, the mixture doesn’t stay that solid this time. Add a bit of the date water and you’ll see that this mixture starts looking more like dough too.
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Shape some balls. This time you don’t have to roll the balls into grounded oats. They may look a bit mushy, but after a few hours in the fridge, they’ll become perfect.