Are you looking for an easy vegan snack to fulfill your sweet tooth during lent? Here is a recipe with four ingredients only No-Bake Dates-Oat Balls. Easy and quick, that both adults and kids will enjoy.
I’m always on the hunt for something easy and delicious but also healthy, sweet but not necessary with lots of sugar. And also something that you can make without much time and effort. So dates are very popular in Palestine. We love to munch on them all the time. And we also have what we called ajweh. Ajweh is pitted dates that turned into a paste, specially made for baking all kinds of different Palestinian cookies.
Ajweh is available at most Middle Eastern stores across the US, but if you don’t have ajweh and have dates all you need to do is take the pit out of about 15-20 dates, chop them and process in a food processor to turn it into a paste.
I also prefer to use the quick oats versus the regular ones because this recipe doesn’t require any baking or liquid and the quick ones are just softer. I also highly recommend using organic oats, since the regular ones contain glyphosate toxic pesticides used for herbs. Wholefoods have organic quick oats in bulk for only 99 cents a pound.
Enjoy an Easy and Quick No-Bake Dates-Oat Balls
Description
Are you looking for an easy vegan snack to fulfill your sweet tooth during lent? Here is a recipe with four ingredients only No-Bake Dates-Oat Balls. Easy and quick, that both adults and kids will enjoy.
Ingredients
- 1 bag ajweh (dates paste) 13 oz
- ½ cup of quick oats (make sure it’s quick and not regular oats)
- ¾ cup of chopped raw almonds
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- a pinch of salt
Instructions
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In a bowl place ajweh, oats chia seeds and almonds, add a pinch of salt.
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Mix all ingredients well together with your hands until it’s more like a dough.
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Place the mix in the fridge for 20-30 minutes.
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With your hands take a small piece of the mix and roll it into a ball shape. Rub hands with olive oil if it gets too sticky.
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Continue until all mix is rolled.
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Store in an airtight container for up to a week.
Makes about 30 small balls.
shakeel syed says
One of my FAV healthy snacks ! LOVE IT ... Shukran Dear Wafa for sharing this.
Wafa Shami says
Great to hear you are enjoying this recipe my dear friend. Stay safe.