Slimmer and postroynevshim too sometimes you want some delicacies, sweets, for example. And in those sweets that offer us shopping networks, it is necessary to contain sugar, and in quantities that clearly do not contribute to harmony. What to do?
The way out is to prepare delicious and useful sweets yourself. For example, you can prepare relatively lentil candies based on lentils.
Lentil is one of the oldest leguminous crops, an undoubted advantage of which is also in the speed of cooking. Different varieties of lentils, distinguished by their colors, are welded to their full readiness for about 20 to 45 minutes.
Lentil beans contain a large amount of easily digestible vegetable protein, folic acid and coarse fibers. Lentils contain various vitamins (mainly A and B groups), omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids and useful compounds of potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron, copper, molybdenum, manganese, boron, cobalt, iodine, zinc. Regular inclusion of lentil dishes in the menu improves metabolism, normalizes the work of the genitourinary and immune systems of the human body. In general, you already realized that this is a super-useful product. The rest of the components for making house sweets, too, will pick up the most useful.
Chocolate sweets from lentils and dates with hazelnuts
Ingredients:
- lentils - 300 ml;
- dates - about 150 g;
- kernel hazelnuts or other nuts - about 100-130 g;
- quality cocoa powder - 2-3 tbsp. spoons;
- sugar (it is better in the form of powder) - 1-1.5 st. a spoon;
- rum - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- cinnamon, saffron, cardamom (optional) - 1 pinch;
- corn starch.
Preparation
Finiki we shall soak in warm boiled water of minutes on 30-40, then water salt and accurately we will remove from fruit of a stone.
We remove the lentils , wash them, fill them with cold water and boil them until they are ready (indicated on the packaging, according to the grade). We can cast the lentil into a colander, you can wash it with boiled water.
The nucleoli of the nuts are slightly roasted in a dry frying pan. We connect lentils with nuts and dates and we rub with a blender to a state of mass with a fairly uniform texture.
Prepare the taste-forming chocolate filler. Mix cocoa powder with sugar (sugar is needed so that there are no lumps). Add rum and spices .
Mix lentil-date-walnut mass with chocolate
From the resulting mass, we form (hands) small balls like teftelek or meatballs (you can, of course, form candies and oblong forms). Crumble in starch or cocoa powder and lay out on the dish. For a while, place the dish with candy in the refrigerator.
If you want sweets a little more satisfying, you can enter into the composition a little dairy natural thick cream, as well as slightly dissolved in water or some fruit juice gelatin.
Ready-made sweets are served for tea, coffee, hot chocolate and other similar drinks.