Sukha Energy Balls - New Recipe

Sukha Balls

Sukha is a Sanskrit word meaning joy, pleasure, ease, bliss. These delicious balls have earned their title and I'm sure you'll agree when you try them yourself. They are vegan, gluten free, raw, delicious and easy to make. The great thing about this recipe is its kaleidoscopic nature as they can evolve according to your taste. See below the Tips and Alternatives for ideas about how to make them your own version of Sukha. 

Enjoy! 
 

Ingredients

• 1 cup ground oats

• 1 cup ground nuts of your choice - hazelnuts / walnuts / almonds

• ½ cup medjool dates

• ¼ cup ground flax seeds

• ¼ cup hemp protein

• 1 tsp coconut oil

•  1 ½ tbsp ground raw cacao

• 1 cup smooth nut butter of your choice - cashew / peanut / hazelnut / almond etc

• 1 tbsp maple syrup

• Essential oils of your choice - wild orange / peppermint / cinnamon / cardamom

• Approx ¼ cup of desiccated coconut or ground almond for rolling

Preparation method

• If the oats need blending then do that first with a dry food blender.

• Put dates and cacao and essential oils in blender to combine and blend

• Combine all ingredients into a bow and mix with a metal spoon

• Then get your hands in and take time to combine further

• Taste!! Check the flavour and the consistency - if you need to add more spices for flavour or more dates for sweetness or more cacao for bitterness. Add accordingly!! If it is too moist then add more ground nuts or oats. If it is too dry to compact together then add a little more oily nut butter or maple syrup or melted coconut oil

• Put coconut/ground almonds into a bowl

• With your hands, roll the mix into wee balls and then roll the balls in the coconut and place in a Tupperware

• Store in the fridge but they are best eaten when they are not too cold.

Tips and alternatives

• Nut butter: Only use pure fresh nut butter with no added anything!!
  Peanut butter is cheaper!
  Crunchy peanut butter adds a great crunchy texture
  Cashew is luxuriously creamy and amazing
  Almond is smooth tasting and soothing
  Macademia is just blinking scrummy and quite intensely creamy
  Hazelnut complements cacao and give a nutella taste
  A combination of two or three nut butters is ideal

• Tahini (sesame seed paste) also works but don’t use too much as it tastes bitter
  Seeds can be added. Any seeds work: sesame and sunflower are my faves. If you’re using a blender then pumpkin and other bigger seeds can be used.

• Leave out the oats and replace with just a table spoon or so of extra almond meal to make more decadent ganache-type balls.

• Add any flavourings or bits that make you happy: vanilla essence, orange zest and essence, chilli, ginger, pistachios. doTERRA Essential Oils make for delicious and health-giving additions. Try Wild Orange, Ginger, Cinnamon or Lavender. 

• If you can’t get delicious goopy medjool dates then regular dried dates work but soak them in a little hot water first.

• Use dates with other dried fruit for alternative flavour/fruitiness: eg dried figs, raisins, apricots.

I always make these with an intention: eg a person for whom I’m making them, and I keep that person - what makes them smile - in mind, as I adapt and modify the ingredients.