Puffed Millet and Date Balls
Makes around 30 balls
Preparation: 25 minutes to prepare no baking.
Ingredients
| 250g | Pitted Dates |
| 100g | Boiling Water (if necessary – see recipe below) |
| 80g | Butter or Coconut Oil (for Vegan) |
| 3 cups, 60g | Puffed millet (can use other puffed grains) |
| 1cup (100g) | Finely chopped nuts – almonds or cashews |
| 1.4 tsp | Cardamom, ground |
Chop the dates and then pulse them in a food processor. If the dates remain chunky, then soak them in boiling water and pulse again to form a paste. If they form a paste first time you pulse it, then soaking is not necessary. Pulse to a paste.
Melt the butter or coconut oil in a pan, add the cardamom. Add the dates and mix well.
Add the Puffed Millet and nuts to the mixture and mix well.
Transfer to a bowl, allow to cool enough to handle.
Working with slightly wet hands, pinch of pieces of date mix and roll into balls of around 3cm diameter.