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| Yes, please! These Primal Coconut Nut Bars are sure to become one of my favorite treats! |
Anyway, I gathered my ingredients and followed this recipe
to the letter for this wonderful refrigerator bar. I think it bears repeating,
in case you missed it. I believe it works for the Paleo diet as well, if you
are allowing yourself to eat raw honey.
Here is this clever recipe from creator Carly Shankman as
she wrote it:
Primal Coconut Nut
Bars
1 C. slivered almonds
1 C. pecans
½ C. nut flour (The author used Bob’s Red Mill hazelnut
flour; I used almond flour.)
½ C. unsweetened dried coconut
½ C. almond butter
½ C. coconut oil
¼ C. honey
2 tsp. pure vanilla
½ tsp. salt
1 C. dried fruit, like cranberries
Preheat the primal cooking fire (oven) to 350 degrees and
toast the nuts until golden brown, stirring occasionally. Watch them carefully;
they’ll go from golden to black fast! Once they are toasted nicely, toss them
in the stone grinder (the food processor or blender), and give them a few
pulses until they are a coarse meal. Stir into the nut flour in a medium bowl
and add the dried coconut and mix well.
On the stovetop, melt the coconut oil and almond butter;
stir them together well. Remove from heat and add the honey, vanilla, and salt,
and then mix until creamy. Fold the nut mix into the honey mix and add the
dried fruit. Pat into an 8x8 baking dish (coated with coconut oil) and stick it
in the ice cave (fridge) for 1 hour or more until nice and solid. I like to top
mine with a little extra dried coconut before placing in the fridge. Cut into
squares and try not to grunt when eating. Keep in the ice cave to store.
I love raw, nutty bars and butters. And speaking of raw, I
recently discovered that HyVee carries Bob’s Gluten-Free Muesli. If you can
tolerate gluten-free oats, I highly recommend it. I can’t comfortably eat gluten-free oatmeal every day, but I seem to do fine eating them once or twice
a week. I learned to love muesli on my travels to Germany, where most German
Youth Hostels serve muesli every morning. I like to soak the muesli in almond
milk overnight and eat it uncooked. Yum!
