Best Healthy Chocolate Protein Spread
Have you been looking for a healthy Nutella alternative - a Chocolate Protein Spread!? This recipe is quick to make, delicious, and goes great on almost EVERYTHING!The good thing is…an ever increasing number of new protein-enhanced nut butters and spreads have entered the market. Their offer? Healthier versions of some of our favourite pancake toppers: things like peanut butter, almond butter, and chocolate spread. These products’ claim to fame is that they take out the sugar, reduce or eliminate what many consider to be undesirable sources of fat (things like palm oil, sunflower oil, rapeseed oil), and take away what the cheesy call ‘the nasties’ (e.g. high-fructose corn syrup, corn solids, inverted sugars, artificial flavours and colours, additives and nutritionally-void fillers). After doing this – after taking out all the ingredients that are doing nothing for us in the context of a healthy diet, they take it all up a further notch by adding back some good things like whey protein powder. The result? A more nutritionally-balanced nut butter or spread that is lower in carbs, lower in fats, and higher in protein.It’s actually so easy to make your own version of these high-protein spreads and nut butters if you make the time to do so. You can use this chocolate protein spread with pretty much anything! Add it into yogurt or cottage cheese, use it on fresh fruit, in a sandwich, with toasted bread, crackers, rice cakes, or other high protein desserts or… dare I say it, eat it straight from the jar!Here’s a recipe to get you started – a recipe that might just revolutionize your approach to chocolate spread… forever!
Servings 20
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups hazelnuts, roasted, chopped (and skinless)
- 1 cup dates, soaked 30 minutes and drained
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder or cacao powder
- 1/2 cup protein or collagen powder
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
- Splash milk if needed
Instructions
- Blitz the nuts in a food processor or high-powered blender until they start to form a nut butter like texture. Be careful not to over process as to have some texture variance and different size ‘bits’ in your spread.Add in the dates, protein powder, cocoa, protein powder, coconut oil, vanilla extract and salt and continue to process until well combined. If you would like a runnier texture add a splash of milk until the desired consistency is reached. Keep chocolate dip/spread in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
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