Healthy Nut and Seed Cookies – Flourless and Sugar-Free Recipe
Indulge in these nutritious and energy-packed cookies without flour and sugar! Here’s how to make them:
**Ingredients:**
– 70g Dried Apricots (about 2.5 ounces)
– Water (for soaking apricots)
– 50g Walnuts (about 1.8 ounces), chopped
– 70g Hazelnuts (about 2.5 ounces)
– 30g Pumpkin Seeds (about 1 ounce)
– 40g Sunflower Seeds (about 1.4 ounces)
– 20g Sesame Seeds (about 0.7 ounces)
– 20g Flaxseed (about 0.7 ounces)
– 60g Almonds (about 2 ounces)
– 20g Pine Nuts (about 0.7 ounces)
– 40ml Natural Honey (about 1.4 ounces)
– 1 Egg White
– Pinch of Salt
**Instructions:**
1. **Prepare Dried Apricots:**
– Soak dried apricots in cold water for 15-20 minutes. Drain excess water.
2. **Chop and Mix Nuts and Seeds:**
– Chop walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, and pine nuts with a knife.
– In a mixing bowl, combine chopped nuts with pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, and flaxseed.
3. **Add Dried Apricots and Honey:**
– Add soaked and drained dried apricots to the nut-seed mixture.
– Pour in natural honey and mix well.
4. **Incorporate Egg White and Salt:**
– Add one egg white to the mixture.
– Sprinkle a pinch of salt.
– Mix until everything is well combined.
5. **Form Cookies and Bake:**
– Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
– Scoop portions of the mixture onto the sheet to form cookies.
– Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C (360°F) for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
6. **Cool and Enjoy:**
– Allow the cookies to cool on a wire rack.
– Enjoy your healthy, flourless, and sugar-free nut and seed cookies!