Healthy Rocky Road (high-protein)
Easy
Gluten free
Wheat free
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For all the chocolate lovers out there who want to indulge whilst keeping it healthy. Packed full of nuts, dried fruit and four sources of protein – you’ll be zinging with energy!
Nutritional information includes vegan protein powder.
10
10
Kcal
419
Carbs
41 g
Protein
7 g
Fat
25 g
* Nutritional information per serving.
Ingredients
Dry mix
- 150g/¾ cup chopped dried apricots, dried cranberries or chopped dates
- 50g/½ cup pecans or walnuts
- 60g/⅜ cup almonds or hazelnuts
- 80g/½ cup mixed raisins
- 50g/⅓ cup goji berries
Chocolate mix
- 70g/2.5 oz dates, pitted and soaked in boiling water for 10 minutes
- 170g/6 oz coconut oil, melted
- ½ tin black beans, drained and rinsed
- 80g/⅔ cup raw cacao powder (ideally) or cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp vegan chocolate or vanilla protein powder (optional)
- 40g/¼ cup coconut sugar
- 180g/6.3 oz syrup (eg maple or agave)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
- ½ tsp salt (optional)
Instructions
- Line a 20cm square baking tin.
Dry mix
- Place all the ingredients in a food processor and blitz in short bursts/pulse until you have a broken yet chunky consistency. Place into a large mixing bowl and set aside.
Chocolate mix
- Using a high-speed blender, blitz until smooth but don’t over-blend. If it gets too oily, add a bit more cacao powder and syrup.
Assembly
- Pour the chocolate mix over the dry mix and thoroughly combine.
- Evenly distribute the combined mixture into the baking tin and press down.
- Place in the fridge for minimum 2 hours then cut into small squares.
- They will keep for 7 days in a sealed container in the fridge.