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Chicken or Tofu Salsa Recipe!

This is a hot chicken or tofu salsa and is good
for balancing hormones.
The chilli is totally optional.

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Super Raw Chocolate Yum Balls

Natural sweet treats without added sugar

Feed your sugar craving without using sugar.

This is one of my favourites, a variation on the date log but so much better! Mainly because it involves chocolate and nut butter, which is just oh so yummy!

INGREDIENTS

• 2 Cups of your nuts of choice – I prefer Brazils

• 1 Cup of dried fruit – I recommend raisins and/or a few dates (read the label and buy those without oil!

• 4 Tablespoons of raw chocolate (aka raw cacau available from Organic Food Shops) – though you can add less or more as you go to suit your own preference and you can also use normal cocoa.

• 10+ Tablespoons of desiccated coconut – again you can use more if you like. Also remember to check the label. It’s hard to find pure coconut without sugar or something else added. Usually an organic brand is the way to go.

OPTIONAL...BUT ADVISED

• ½ teaspoon of cinnamon – helps suppress the sugar cravings!

• 1 teaspoon of vanilla – read your label, often full of rubbish, you are definitely best to buy organic or distil the flavour from pods yourself.

• Pinch of ground black pepper and pink rock salt to catch the yummy flavours and add a few minerals.

• Pinch of Cayenne also never goes astray to pick up the flavour

• 3 Tablespoons of extra virgin coconut oil

• NB: You may also use pre-made nut butter or tahini though I think it is better to use your own if you have the foresight to soak the nuts and a decent blender.

WARNING: If you attempt this recipe with a run of the mill food processor it may BLOW UP or break in some way. You MUST use a decent hand blender or a raw food processor e.g. a Magimix. A hand blender will also not cope well with the nuts unless you soak them overnight.

Step 1: Soak the nuts in spring water for 24 Hours. The following day drain, rinse and blend nuts with hand blender or appropriate food processor until a smooth nut butter occurs.

NB – Soaking nuts removes enzyme inhibiters that make nuts hard on the digestion. Activating your nuts by soaking is the way to go!

Step 2: Add dried fruit and seasonings including vanilla and coconut oil if you are using them. Blend together into a smooth thick paste. If you don’t have the appropriate blender you can take the time to finely chop the fruit after it has been doused with boiling water to soften and add to the premade nut butter.

Step 3: Dry out your recipe by using 6Tablesps of the coconut and then the cocoa or cacau. Add it slowly tasting as you go along so you can get a feel for how you want it to taste.

Keep in mind that you need to be able to roll this into ball, so the consistency needs to be appropriate

Step 4: Spread remaining four tablespoons of coconut onto a clean surface (you may also use chopped nuts or mix with cinnamon and extra cacau powder). Take a tablespoon of the mixture, roll into a ball and then roll onto the coconut covered surface ensuring to cover the entire surface of the ball. Place in a container you are happy to put in the fridge or freezer and chill.

I recommend you place these in the freezer. Because of the dried fruit content they will never completely freeze. Then you can take one out, allow it five minutes to defrost a little and have a beautifully chilled Yum to go with your tea. I recommend a Japanese tea of some description, as both are in perfect complement to each other.

Enjoy!!!
Sarah Brook

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