Date Coconut Rolls Stuffed with Nuts
Date coconut rolls are soft and easily stuffed with nuts or frosted with nut butter. You can buy the rolls at health-food stores or make them yourself by putting pitted dates through a grinder twice, then shaping the ground dates into small logs and rolling them in unsweetened, sulfite-free coconut. They make a delicious, nutritious, potassium-rich cookie and candy alternative. The combination of dates and lightly toasted pecans reminds us of pecan pie filling! Don’t have a health-food store near you? You can buy date coconut rolls from mail-order sources such as Sun Organic Farm; (888) 269-9888; www.sunorganicfarm.com.
Makes 4 servings
Date Coconut Rolls (see directions above)1/4 to 1/3 cup lightly toasted nuts, such as almonds or pecans
Stuff each date roll with 1 tablespoon of whole nuts or nut halves. Serve immediately or cover and pack in a lunch.
One serving (with almonds): 125 calories, 1 g protein, 17 g carbs, 6 g fat, 2 g fiber, 13 mg calcium, 3 sodium
One serving (with pecans): 119 calories, 1 g protein, 18 g carbs, 5 g fat, 2 fiber, 6 mg calcium, 3 mg sodium
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