By making homemade candies from dried apricots and walnuts with almonds, you will protect your relatives from confectionery products with a large amount of harmful substances. A step-by-step recipe with a photo is simple, and all products are available. Video recipe.
Pleasing guests with homemade cakes, making homemade complex cakes and pastries, many housewives do not even know that sweets can be made at home. And not only tasty, but also healthy. And these are not lollipops made from water and sugar. Homemade candies, unlike store ones, are made from healthy products like prunes, dried apricots, dates, nuts - and without a gram of sugar! Today we will make candies from dried apricots and walnuts with almonds. There are no preservatives, artificial colors, flavor enhancers or other harmful additives.
Healthy sweets will appeal to both kids and adults. Doctors will not object to such a confectionery delicacy. The recipe is suitable for housewives who are picky about the diet and who want to protect loved ones from junk food. Most importantly, before cooking dried apricots must be washed well. Since most dried fruits are processed with sulfurous anhydride, which is used as a preservative, so that soft, undried dried fruits do not spoil, and it is toxic to the human body. It is important to know that sulfur dioxide dissolves exclusively in cold water. If dried fruits are washed with hot water, it will not dissolve, but will remain on the surface of dried fruits.
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- Calorie content per 100 g - 405 kcal.
- Servings - 15
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Dried apricots - 100 g
- Walnuts - 100 g
- Almonds - 15 pcs.
- Cocoa powder - 1 tablespoon
Step-by-step preparation of candies from dried apricots and walnuts with almonds, recipe with photo:
1. Pour the dried apricots in a bowl with cold water and leave for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally to dissolve the sulfur dioxide better. Then drain the water and rinse the dried apricots with running cold water so that the sulfur dioxide completely goes into the water. Then be sure to pour boiling water over the dried fruits and dry well with a paper napkin.
2. Remove the walnuts from the shell in a convenient way and dry in a clean and dry frying pan, or on a baking sheet in the oven. Stir the kernels occasionally to brown evenly and brown until golden brown.
3. Place the roasted walnuts in a chopper.
4. Grind the nuts to a fine crumb consistency.
4. Remove the nut flour from the chopper and place the dried apricots in it.
5. Turn on the appliance and wait for the dried fruit to turn into a homogeneous puree-like mass.
6. Send crushed nuts to the grinder for dried apricots and add cocoa powder.
7. Stir the food until smooth.
8. Wet your hands with cold water to prevent the dough from sticking and form small balls.
9. In the middle of each ball, place the almonds, pressing them into the middle, and again form a round candy with your hands.
10. Ready candies of dried apricots and walnuts with almonds, sprinkle with cocoa powder, chill in the refrigerator for half an hour and serve for tea.
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