The Diet Logs

For a healthy energy booster snack you can munch on anytime!

Ingredients:
1/4 cup pure apple juice
1/2 cup whole dates, halved and pitted
1 cup whole raw almonds with skins
1/2 cup dried apricots
1/4 cup prunes
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds
1/4 cup raw sunflower seeds

Procedure:
1. Preheat oven to 300 F. Pour apple juice over dates and let it soak for 5 minutes.
2. Place almonds, dried apricots, and dried plums in a food processor and pulse a few times until coarsely chopped. Add salt, cinnamon and dates with apple juice and pulse until mixture starts to stick together. Add pumpkin seeds and sunflower seed.
3. Using wet hands, scoop mixture onto a work surface and form into a log about 1 3/4 in. wide and 1/2 in. thick. Use your palms to flatten into a bar, and cut bar into 8 equal pieces.
4. Arrange pieces about 1 inch apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake 8 minutes. Using a heatproof spatula, turn bars over and bake another 8 minutes, or until nuts are toasted (but before fruit begins to burn).

seraphim wrote this on July 2nd, 2008 and filed it under Diet Logs |