These seeds energy balls are an amazing snack between meals or a snack you can take with you to work, school or a hike. They’re packed with healthy ingredients, high in protein, healthy fats and iron and sweetened with medjool dates (which are refined sugar-free). The most surprising thing is that they taste absolutely fantastic! You won’t be able to stop eating them! They can also be a wonderful breakfast paired with vegan matcha latte, vegan turmeric latte, vegan beetroot latte, or mango chia pudding.
I’ve been trying to include a variety of seeds into my recipes for a long time. Seeds have so many health benefits that I don’t want to miss out on them. I could sprinkle them on a salad, porridge, bircher muesli or a similar dish but even so I noticed that I don’t eat seeds as often as I would like because I don’t have a dish that would elevate their taste to another level. All this has changed since the creation of these seeds bliss balls. They’re now a staple in my household. They’re almost always in the fridge, ready to grab at any time I need a quick snack. They give me energy for the day and are very satiating. I absolutely love the taste and would eat them constantly even if they didn’t happen to be so healthy.
The seeds included in these little bites are pumpkin, hemp, sunflower and sesame. I use sunflower seeds in the form of sunflower seed butter and sesame seeds in the form of tahini. Sunflower seed butter and tahini taste amazing, much better than their counterpart seeds. These two ingredients contribute to the fantastic taste of the energy balls. All seeds included in these bliss balls are high in healthy fats, have a decent amount of protein and are also high in iron. The sweetness comes from medjool dates and dried white mulberries, both of which bring almost a caramel-like taste to the seeds balls. This feature also contributes to the incredible taste of these bliss balls.
Be careful to process dry ingredients in small batches because this step can make or break the recipe. So if you’re making the whole batch in the quantity as originally written in this recipe, divide pumpkin and hemp seeds into two parts and grind them in the blender separately.
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Seeds Energy Balls (V, GF)
Ingredients
- 100 g pumpkin seeds
- 100 g hemp seeds
- 1/4 tsp vanilla powder
- 1/4 tsp Ceylon cinnamon powder
- 125 g dried white mulberries
- 125 g medjool dates pitted
- 100 g sunflower seed butter
- 100 g tahini
- 30 ml (2 tbsp) cold water
Instructions
- First grind pumpkin seeds in a blender. If you're making 25 bliss balls (as the recipe is written), put 100g of pumpkin seeds in a blender in two separate batches (2x 50g). This step is very important because it can make or break the recipe. Pumpkin seeds need to stay very dry as well as hemp seeds. Otherwise the bliss balls will become too wet and oily, it will not be possible to shape them into a ball nicely and the taste will also be affected. Transfer ground pumpkin seeds into a larger bowl.
- Grind hemp seeds, again in two separate batches. Add them to the bowl with pumpkin seeds. Add also vanilla and cinnamon to these ground seeds. Mix together.
- Grind dried mulberries in a blender. With mulberries there's no risk that they would become too wet so you can put them in a blender all at once. Make sure to grind them really well so that there aren't any whole parts of dried mulberries left.
- Add all medjool dates into the blender without removing ground dried mulberries. Keeping dried mulberries in the blender will help with the stickiness of medjool dates as mulberries will add dryness to them. Mix and if there are still some larger parts of medjool dates in the blender, mix with a spoon and blend again.
- Transfer the medjool date-mulberries mixture to the bowl. Mix together with your hand until you get a homogenous sand-like mixture. Don't squeeze medjool date-mulberries mixture too strongly by itself because you can end up with somewhat hard clumps in your energy balls. Instead incorporate dry mixture into the sticky mixture and separate sticky clumps that way.
- Now add to the bowl sunflower seed butter, tahini and cold water. Mix together first with a spoon and then with your hand until you get a dough. Don't mix too strongly so that the dough doesn't get too dense.
- Divide the dough in 25 equal parts (I weigh them in grams). Gently squeeze the dough so that it sticks together then shape the balls with your hands. Put them into a sealed box (so that they don't absorb the flavours from the fridge).
- Store bliss balls in the refrigerator. If you wish you can take them out about 30 min before you want to eat them. They will get softer like this and they will be a little more pleasant to eat. You can take them with you on hiking trips as they keep their shape well outside the refrigerator.
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