January 16, 2008: Fruit, Nut Together With Tahini Slice

peanut butter bliss balls there, an ice-cream somewhere inwards the middle, amongst a scattering of jelly lollies on summit from a generous colleague. Time for some premeditated baking. The recipe of pick is a no-added-sugar piece amongst many incarnations, but the cardinal ingredients are all fruit, nuts together with seeds. It all started amongst Cassie from rave review of her ain together with it was obvious I had to laissez passer on these a shot.

I detect that tahini tin endure a fleck of a love/hate factor - it tends towards pasty messy bitterness on its own, but it tin lend a fabulous rich nuttiness when used judiciously. In my piece the tahini was borderline - inwards a pair of mouthfuls it was likewise pronounced, spell inwards most others it was a real pleasing undertone. Obviously I involve to stir things a fleck to a greater extent than vigorously inwards the future, but I mightiness endeavor reducing the tahini a petty at good (upping the dates simply slightly to retain the wet quotient). I scream upward it'd endure fun to endeavor replacing it amongst other nut butters too. (Mmmm, cashew butter... thence proficient but soooo expensive.) Dried apricots together with almonds are my fruit together with nut combination of choice, together with I also added some leftover citrus peel. It was OK, but I shouldn't bring messed amongst my favourite couple.

The surprise number is that Michael has enjoyed this piece at to the lowest degree every bit much every bit I have, pregnant that stocks bring disappeared exclusively a calendar week later. At to the lowest degree it's quick together with slow to bake upward some other tray...

Fruit, nut together with tahini slice

1/2 loving cup dried dates, diced
1/2 loving cup water
1/2 loving cup tahini (or endeavor a nut butter)
3/4 loving cup rolled oats
1/4 loving cup spelt flour (or endeavor some other flour of your choice)
about a teaspoon of spice: I went for a mix of seat down cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg together with star anise
1/3 loving cup almonds, chopped (or whatever other nut you lot like)
1/3 loving cup pepitas (or some other seed you're into)
2/3 loving cup dried apricots, diced
1/3 loving cup dried citrus peel, diced (replace these amongst a loving cup of whatever dried fruit)

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Lightly grease a pocket-sized baking tray.

Put the dates together with H2O inwards a saucepan together with simmer them for 5-10 minutes, stirring occasionally. It'll all mush into a thick mixture together. Take it off the oestrus together with cool it a bit, together with thence stir inwards the tahini.

In a medium-sized bowl, mix together the remaining ingredients. Pour inwards the date/tahini mixture together with stir to combine. Press the mixture into the baking tray together with bake for close fifteen minutes, until golden on summit together with simply browning around the edges. Allow it to cool earlier slicing.