Today's video, I'm going to show you how to make lovely energy balls using oats and dried fruit
I'm Fiona. Welcome to Fiona's Food for Life
These energy balls are so easy to make!
The first ingredient we're going to add in is Medjool dates
These you can get from an Asian supermarket for usually around 13 euro a kilo in Ireland
But you can also get them from your farmers market where you will pay a little bit more
If however, you can't find Medjool dates, you could use other dates like say the Deglet Noor dates
But just soak them in warm water for about 10 minutes then drain them and use them
It'll just make it much easier to blend up.
We have our organic oats
Then I have 1/3 of a cup of raisins
We have a half cup of sunflower seeds
we have our 2 tablespoons of cacao butter
And then I'm going to add in some orange zest and then half a cup of orange juice
When you're zesting a fruit you just want to get a little bit of the outer colored part
So these are the unwaxed oranges here
You grate it along and turn, you don't want to get into the bitter white pit
So usually I'd use about the juice of 1 and 1/2 to 2 oranges
So I'm just gonna take a little bit of zest off both
I'll make these energy balls at a lot of the corporate demos that I do in the workplace
They're great for if you have that sugar slump say at 11 o'clock or three o'clock
and you want a nice healthy alternative
You have the chocolate hit from the cacao powder. You have the low GI from the oats
you've got lots of nutrients in your sunflower seeds
and you've got your vitamin C in your orange kick from the orange.
So it's really really nice
We're looking for a half a cup of juice
Perfect
And then we're just going to blitz the whole lot
Have a look inside if it looks a little bit firm
You can add another little bit of orange juice
and if it looks a little bit too wet you could always add a little bit more oats
in this instance, I'm going to add a little bit more orange juice
Once it's in a nice consistency like this. You're ready to start rolling it into balls
Remove the blade
Today I'm gonna roll it in a bit of desiccated coconut
You can roll it in cocoa powder and you could roll it in goji berries
bee pollen... a number of different things
what you do then is you get
part of the mixture, roll up into the bowl palm of your hands and drop it onto the trail
So we got a messy job. You can use gloves if you need to or else at home
I would just wash my hands after I've made each batch
These will keep in the fridge for about a week
Because you've got the fresh orange juice in with the oats they won't last much longer than that
so what I
suggest you do is pop them into the fridge for an hour and they're done just to firm up and then if you want to
Take them on the go in a lunchbox or in a container to work or to school
They're fine out of the fridge for the day, but just take them as you need them a few at a time
Then with your clean hands, you're going to roll them in the coating so say... I like to use coconut
And then they're ready to go
And there you have about 20 energy balls from that one batch
if you did want to add a little bit of protein powder into
this recipe that also works too
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