Home recipe for Protein Balls

This is a great nut butter-based protein ball recipe and is as easy as A-B-C! Just follow the steps below and you’ll be snack-time-ready in no time. Beware Deliciously Ella!

Ingredients

(1) The base

60g/½ cup raw almonds

120g/4¼oz dates

40g/¹⁄³ cup dried cherries

(2) Pick your nut butter (2 tsp)

Almond butter

Peanut butter

Cashew butter

Hazelnut butter

Pecan butter

Coconut almond butter

Seed butter

(3) Pick your filler (2 maximum)

20g/½ cup coconut flakes

½ tbsp maca powder

½ tbsp lucuma powder

20g/3 tbsp chopped nuts (pecans, macadamia, pistachio)

1 tbsp chia seeds

1 tbsp ground cinnamon

1 tbsp cacao powder

20g/3 tbsp chopped dried apple

(4) Pick your topping (1 maximum)

Sesame seeds

Cocoa powder

Finely chopped pistachios

Finely chopped mixed nuts

Desiccated coconut

Cacao nibs

Method - Makes 12-15

1/ Blitz the base ingredients in a food processor for 3–5 minutes, or until it forms a sticky dough.

2/ Pick your nut butter of choice and choose your filler (we recommend a max of two fillers per mixture). Add both to the food processor and blitz until combined but not completely smooth; you want to keep a bit of texture.

3/ Take a small amount of mixture and roll it between your hands to make a small, golf-ball sized bite. Pick your topping and spread it onto a large plate, then roll each ball around until nicely coated. Repeat with the remaining mixture to make more balls.

4/ Store refrigerated in an airtight container, for up to a week.

If you’re not sure where to start with this one, then these balls have been tried, tested and devoured:

• Almond butter, pecan nut, lucuma ball

• Cashew butter, coconut, maca ball

• Peanut butter and cacao ball

• Peanut butter, apple and cinnamon ball

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