Let's make delicious and healthy date candies with our own hands.

Dates are the fruits of the date palm.
It’s not for nothing that they are called “the berries of life”; they are not only very tasty, but also healthy. Date sweets are an excellent alternative to the usual sweets: confectionery, cream desserts, chocolates. Incomparable taste qualities and rich chemical composition have made these fruits popular and in demand not only in cooking, but also in folk medicine. On this topic:

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The fruits contain vitamins A, E, C, group B, potassium, zinc, iron, amino acids and antioxidants. They go well with other fruits and nuts. Dates stimulate brain activity, improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, heart, liver, kidneys, and help strengthen the immune system. Be sure to include date sweets in your diet; besides, they are very easy to prepare.

Simple DIY candies made from dried fruits and nuts

To prepare healthy sweets, a wide variety of ingredients are used: dried fruits, dried fruits, nuts, seeds, candied fruits, honey. The recipe provides enormous possibilities for imagination.

Several variants:

• figs, dried apricots, peanuts;
• prunes, sunflower seeds, candied papaya and mango;
• raisins, dried apricots, almonds, vanilla extract;
• dried apricots, prunes, hazelnuts;
• dried orange, almonds, dogwood.

Cooking instructions:

• The ingredients are added in approximately equal quantities; options are possible in accordance with taste preferences.
• For a harmonious taste, one of the ingredients should be slightly sour: dried apples, cherries or cranberries, etc. Citruses can be added dried or fresh, along with the peel.
• Nuts and seeds must be dried in the oven or in a frying pan. There is no need to fry, just heat until the first smell and cool.

It is better to buy walnuts in shell and shell them before cooking, as they quickly oxidize when exposed to light and begin to taste bitter.

• Soak very hard or overdried dried fruits in warm water, drain it and dry the products on a towel.
• All components are ground in a meat grinder or blender into a dense, sticky mass.
• You need to try the preparation to check how harmonious the mixture is. The taste can always be balanced by adding a pinch of salt to a fatty paste, lemon juice to a cloying one, honey to a thick paste, and so on.
• With slightly moistened hands, the resulting paste is used to form candies in the shape of a truffle or a ball.
• The candies are rolled in poppy seeds, cocoa, sesame seeds, ground nuts or coconut flakes so that they do not stick together and do not get your hands dirty. In addition, after decoration, the dessert takes on a more attractive appearance.
• You can decorate the top of the candy by pressing a nut into it. You can also make a surprise filling from a whole nut.
• Ready-made candies should be cooled until they become solid before serving. You can make this in the freezer if the recipe does not include fresh fruit or cottage cheese. Dessert without liquid will not freeze.
• Shelf life at temperatures from 0 ºС to 4 ºС is usually no more than a week.
  

With added dates

The special ingredient is dates. Their rich and slightly sugary taste allows you to create exquisite duets of flavors and does not require variety in the composition of the dessert.

Successful companion ingredients:

• banana (dried or fresh), added 1:1;
• sunflower seed;
• peanut;
• orange and almond.

Homemade sweets with dates will be very sticky. It is better to roll them in chopped nuts, sesame seeds or coconut flakes. Cocoa powder will be absorbed very quickly and the dessert will lose its appearance. You can add a chocolate touch by adding cocoa inside or rolling the candies in grated dark chocolate.

Date candies

Many of us love candy, but if you read their composition, it leaves much to be desired. I offer you an excellent replacement for store-bought sweets - these are healthy and tasty date sweets. They cook very quickly.

Ingredients:

• Dates (soft, pitted) - 200 g
• Bitter chocolate – 80 g
• Oat flakes – 15 g
• Coconut flakes - 15 g

For sprinkling:

• coconut flakes
• Cocoa powder

Step-by-step recipe with photos:

Pour coconut and oatmeal into the pan.

Fry them until lightly browned over medium heat, stirring constantly.

Pour the fried ingredients into a blender bowl and grind until finely crumbled.

Pour out the dates, which have been washed, dried and pitted in advance.

Melt chocolate (I use bitter chocolate) in any way convenient for you. Instead of bitter chocolate, you can use milk chocolate, but then the candies will be much sweeter. Pour the melted chocolate over the dates and chop.

The output is a homogeneous thick mass that sticks a little to your hands.

Let's start forming date sweets. From the resulting mass we make balls the size of a walnut. If necessary, wet your palms with water.

Roll the balls in coconut or a small amount of cocoa powder. Or it can be both. Place on a dish and put in the refrigerator for 40-60 minutes, during which time the candies will “set”. You need to store them in the refrigerator, but I think they won’t stay there for long.

Delicious date chocolates are ready. Treat yourself to healthy sweets!

How to make a chocolate treat

Chocolate-coated chocolates have a completely professional look.

To prepare, you will need high-quality chocolate, no matter white, dark or milk.

1. Place each candy on a toothpick.
2. Cool 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
3. Melt the chocolate over a water bath in a deep bowl. You can add a little butter to make the glaze softer.
4. Dip each piece into chocolate.
5. Wait for the excess to drain.
6. Insert a toothpick into the foam base to allow the icing to set while floating.
7. Cool the candies again in the refrigerator.
8. Remove toothpicks before serving.
   

Nutritious sweets made from dates

Chocolate covered date candies with almonds and oatmeal are a delicious, nutritious snack that can fill the body with energy after a grueling workout or a hard day.

To prepare 20 pieces you will need the following ingredients:

• dates – 20 pcs.;
• almond nuts – 20 pcs.;
• oat flakes – 400 g;
• butter – 120 g;
• cocoa powder – 4 tbsp. l.;
• sugar – 120 g;
• chocolate – 200 g.

Cooking method:

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1. First, grind the oatmeal in a meat grinder. Pour the resulting mixture onto a baking sheet and place in the oven for 10 minutes. The flakes will dry and acquire a pleasant golden hue.

   

2. Fill pitted dates with warm (not hot) water and leave for 15 minutes. Drain off the excess liquid and place the fruit on a napkin. After they dry thoroughly, grind them with a blender so that large pieces remain

   

3. Mix butter and sugar and place in a water bath. When a homogeneous mixture is formed, add cocoa powder and mix thoroughly so that there are no lumps left. Add oatmeal, which has already dried, to this, keep for another 5 minutes, remove from the water bath.

   

4. While the mixture has not cooled, add the chopped dates, stir, and leave to cool for a few minutes.

   

5. We form candies from the still warm mass. Make balls the size of Raffaello and put almonds in the middle.

   

6. We drown chocolate. Dip each candy in it, place it on a dish, and put it in the refrigerator until it hardens completely.

   

If you are following a healthy diet and are trying to eliminate sugar from your diet, use honey instead to make sweets.

To add an interesting spicy note to the candies, add orange zest and a pinch of cinnamon.

Cooking with honey

Honey not only adds sweetness and flavor to candies, but also serves as a binder in recipes that contain lots of nuts and seeds.

If you are allergic to honey, you can soften the consistency of the paste with maple or rosehip syrup instead of liquid honey.

It is easy to thicken a mixture that is too soft by adding any dried fruits or nuts if the honey is not thick enough.

Example recipe with honey:

• walnuts – 150 g;
• coconut flakes – 50 g;
• dates – 50 g;
• thick honey – 100 g;
• cocoa powder – 50 g;
• salt – 5 g.

For decoration, it is better to use coconut shavings.

How to make healthy candies - healthy eating

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PP candies made from dried fruits and nuts

Adherents of proper nutrition will prefer to make natural sweets less sweet and fatty. To do this, a neutral-tasting binder rich in protein and amino acids – boiled chickpeas – is added to the mixture. This is a variety of peas, popular in the East and already appreciated in our cuisine.

For 250 g of boiled chickpeas:

• peanuts - 50 g;
• hazelnuts – 100 g;
• dark chocolate – 200 g;
• vanilla extract.

It is suggested to use powdered stevia as a sweetener in this recipe. This is another healthy product, with almost zero calories and a rich phytochemical composition.

With oat flakes

Oddly enough, one of the most delicate and delicious types of candies is made from simple oatmeal. It doesn't even need to be boiled.

For 200 g of dry Hercules:

• 200 g walnuts;
• 200 g of any sweet dried fruits: raisins, dates, dried apricots;
• 100 g honey;
• 10 g cinnamon;
• 30 g odorless vegetable oil.

You can use a little more cinnamon for decoration.

1. Grind the oatmeal into coarse flour.
2. Mix the rest of the ingredients with a blender and mix the mixture thoroughly.
3. Form candies and roll them in cinnamon.

As an option, you can make rectangular sweets: smooth the sweet mass on the bottom of a greased mold, cool in the freezer and cut into portioned diamonds.

Recipe for children

Sweets with cottage cheese are soft, not at all cloying, and inside there is a pleasant surprise - a whole nut or grape. This is the perfect treat for little ones with a sweet tooth.

You will need:

• 100 g cottage cheese;
• 50 g walnuts;
• 100 g prunes;
• 100 g figs;
• 100 g raisins;
• half a lemon with peel.

In addition, you need to prepare whole roasted nuts or seedless grapes according to the amount of candy.

1. All components, except cottage cheese, are crushed and combined into a thick sticky mass. Wide cakes are molded from it, 1.5 times wider in size than candy.
2. The cottage cheese should also be thick and sticky; if it is too dry, you can add a little yogurt or a fresh banana.
3. Using two teaspoons, form a ball of cottage cheese.
4. Press the nut inside.
5. Place the curd filling on a dried fruit cake, carefully roll it up and form into a ball.
6. Roll in sesame seeds, ground corn flakes or cocoa.
7. Refrigerate until completely set and serve. It is not recommended to store sweets with cottage cheese.

Useful properties and contraindications of dessert

A lot of scientific and popular literature has been written about the benefits of dried fruits and nuts. There is no point in analyzing in detail the content of vitamins, healthy fats and acids in a culinary article, especially since the content of one or another product in each candy is not high.

However, what comes to mind is the vitamin paste of Academician Amosov, developed by him for the recovery of patients in the postoperative period. It is still used in this capacity, and is also recommended for healthy people to maintain immunity.

Compound:

• black and white raisins;
• dried apricots;
• figs;
• prunes;
• walnuts;
• natural honey;
• lemon with peel.

All ingredients are taken in 1:1 proportions (one fresh lemon per three kilograms of paste), crushed and used daily, one spoon three times a day before meals. By the way, you can also form round candies from it.

This nut-fruit mixture activates general and local immunity, has an antioxidant effect, restores the nervous and digestive systems, and has a beneficial effect on the functioning of the heart and other organs.

Despite the fact that the fruits are used in dried and dried form, they still contain enough useful substances to create a therapeutic effect when used regularly.

Another undoubted advantage of natural sweets is the absence of flavor enhancers and other food chemicals. There will never be a euphoric desire to eat a kilogram of such sweets at once; even the biggest sweet tooth will be able to control themselves.

Despite all the positive qualities, sweets made from dried fruits and nuts have a number of contraindications for use:

• The calorie content of one candy, on average, is more than 30 kcal, so people suffering from excess weight should eat this dessert, like any other, in limited quantities.
• High glucose levels can be dangerous for people with diabetes.
• Nuts, dried fruits and honey can be strong allergens, so allergy sufferers, pregnant women, nursing mothers and children under three years of age can eat these products within a reasonable daily allowance.
• The most serious contraindication relates to various diseases of the digestive system: various ulcers, gastritis, cholelithiasis and urolithiasis.

It remains to add that the process of making homemade sweets itself brings a lot of pleasure. It can become a wonderful pre-holiday tradition or a fun attraction for a family, children's or adult party.

PP candies made from powdered milk. Dietary milk powder candies

Diet homemade sugar-free PP candies are the dream of any PP person, especially those losing weight. Regardless of the willpower of a person leading a healthy lifestyle, everyone periodically wants something sweet and tasty. And drinking some aromatic herbal tea with healthy homemade candy is much more interesting and enjoyable than without it.

It’s easy to prepare diet sweets at home; there are many recipes on the Internet, including those that are quite affordable in terms of ingredients and cost.

Low-calorie sweets, made with your own hands using only healthy ingredients, will diversify your diet, decorate the table, and will not harm your figure. You can treat your friends to them and ask them to guess what kind of delicacy it is.

They will be surprised to learn that these are homemade sweets and not store-bought sweets.

Diet sweets can be made from a wide variety of products that fit into the diet of a person.

They make delicious ones.

Fitness candies work well with proteins in various flavors, which can be purchased in sports and diet food stores.

Dietary sweets "Coffee"

This recipe is a godsend for coffee lovers. If you are against instant coffee, you can make a very strong brewed one. Then you will need to replace the milk with it.

Nutritional value per 100 g:

1. Calories: 350
2. Proteins: 17
3. Fats 22
4. Carbohydrates: 23

• walnut – 50 gr.
• SOM (skimmed milk powder) – 6 tbsp.
• sakh.zam – to taste
• low fat milk – 3 tbsp.
• instant coffee – 1 tsp.

Preparation:

Chop the nuts. But not too small, so that you can feel the pieces in the candy.

Combine COM with coffee.

Stir well.

Add milk with sweetener to the dry mixture.

Stir the mixture well and add nuts to it.

Place the resulting “dough” on a bag, give it the desired shape and put it in the refrigerator for a day.

Cut the settled deliciousness into rectangles and serve with tea or coffee.

For a rich taste with a refined bitterness, add coffee to COM. For a milder taste of candy, first stir the coffee in milk, and only then add it to the COM. The taste of candy is very different in both cases - choose the one that suits you best!

PP candies made from dried fruits and nuts

Dietary sweets made from dried fruits and nuts are very tasty and aromatic.

It's good to drink morning tea with them or eat them as a snack in the morning.

For an evening meal, they are quite high in calories - there are a lot of fats and carbohydrates.

It’s good to eat a couple of things before training - carbohydrates will give you the necessary boost of energy. Fitness candies made from dried fruits are easy to prepare. You can add dried bananas, figs, dried apples, and dried cranberries to the recipe. Ground slices of dried lemons or oranges will add piquancy to the candies.

Nutritional value per 100 g:

1. Calories: 377
2. Proteins: 7
3. Fats 16
4. Carbohydrates: 50

Products:

• raisins - 100 g
• dates - 100 g
• dried apricots - 100 g
• prunes – 100 g
• walnuts - 100 g
• sesame - 2-3 tbsp.

Preparation:

1. Take dried fruits and nuts in equal weight proportions, grind in a blender or grind in a meat grinder.
2. Roll into candy balls and roll in sesame seeds.

It is better to form pp-candies from dates, dried fruits and nuts with your hands moistened with cold water.

Chocolate diet candies made from chickpeas

Delicious healthy candies can be made at home from chickpeas (chickpeas).

This product has a pleasant, delicate taste, which allows it to be used for making desserts. For example, just recently our authors prepared a selection of recipes with photos of “Potato” cakes; there are also options with chickpeas.