3 Healthy recipes homemade candies. Part 2

3 Healthy recipes homemade candies. Part 2

These are healthy sugar-free candies made up of natural products: nuts, honey, and dried fruits. They are ideal for healthy eating in families with small children, they will become a favorite and popular dessert. Dried fruits are made from fresh ripe fruits, as a result of a gentle processing (drying) process, they get a natural and very useful product that is rich in vitamins and trace elements necessary for human health. Nuts contain almost all the vitamins that are so necessary for health. 3 Healthy recipes homemade candies.

Cooking tips

Recipes for sweets made from dried fruits and nuts can be changed according to your taste preferences, show your culinary imagination and add different combinations of products at will. You can try to make sweets from dried cherries, cranberries, pears or apples;
Walnuts and hazelnuts can be replaced with almonds, peanuts or pine nuts, and if you make a nut mix, the taste of the dessert will be just great;
If you like sour, you can make healthy sweets without sugar, adding lemon zest and juice, and just a little honey;
If the candy mixture is too dry and the ball is not formed well, then dilute the mass with liquid natural honey. If the “dough” is too liquid, you can add chopped nuts or almond flour to it;
In addition to coconut and cocoa, you can use grated chocolate, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, crushed sunflower seeds, and confectionery sprinkles.

From nuts and dried fruits

sweets made from dried fruits and nuts
sweets made from dried fruits and nuts

But the most delicious sweets are obtained when not one, but several types of dried fruits are used for their preparation in combination with nuts.

Ingredients
Dates 5.29 oz
Apricots dried 5.29 oz
Raisins 3.53 oz
Walnuts 5.29 oz
Almonds 5.29 oz
Edible poppy seeds 2 tablespoons

Instruction

Pour boiling water over the dates, dried apricots, and raisins. Leave for 15 minutes. Drain the water and dry the dried fruit.
Dry the walnuts and almonds in a dry hot pan. Roll the nuts with a lemon slice through a meat grinder.
Scroll through the meat grinder dried fruits and mix with nuts.
Add food poppy seeds and mix. Form the same balls, roll each in poppy seeds and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Candy made from dried fruits and cereals. 3 Healthy recipes homemade candies.

Candy made from dried fruits and cereals
Candy made from dried fruits and cereals

Ingredients
Raisins 5.29 oz
Apricots dried 3.53oz
Oatmeal 7.05 oz
Ginger root 1 teaspoon
Liquid honey 2 teaspoons
Lemon-1/2 PCs

Instruction

Pour boiling water over the raisins and dried apricots and leave for 2 minutes. Drain the water and dry the dried fruit.
Grate the ginger root on a fine grater.
Pour oatmeal into the blender bowl, add liquid honey, ½ lemon with peel, dried fruit. Grind with a blender until smooth (flakes should be felt).
Form the resulting mass of candy and roll them in crushed nuts. Put it in the refrigerator for a few hours.

Jelly candies . 3 Healthy recipes homemade candies3 Healthy recipes homemade candies.

Jelly candies
Jelly candies

Jelly candies can be made from berries, apples, pears, oranges or their juices – to choose from. Gelatin or agar-agar is used to give elasticity. The advantage of agar-agar is the lack of taste and giving the sweets more hardness, but the sweets will turn out dark. Corn starch can be used as a thickener.

Ingredients
Вода 5.07 fl oz
Lemon juice 3 tablespoons
Orange juice 4.06 fl oz
Stevia 4.23 oz
Cornstarch 4 tablespoons

Instruction

Pour water, lemon juice, orange juice, and stevia into a saucepan. Stir.
Add cornstarch and cook over low heat, stirring constantly (so that there are no lumps) until completely thickened.
Pour the mass into a glass mold, set to cool-freeze at room temperature.
Cut into slices and sprinkle with cornstarch. Bon Appetit!