Name: Chocolate Dosha walnut balls
Yield: Makes 10 balls
Ingredients: 1 tsp jaggery; ½ tsp ground cinnamon; 2 tsp maple syrup; ¼ tsp or more chilli flakes, plus extra to decorate; 2 tbsp ghee, at room temperature; 100 g dark chocolate; ¼ tsp peppermint extract; 1–2 tsp coriander seeds, toasted and ground, plus extra to decorate; 2 tbsp ghee; 100 g white chocolate; pinch of sea salt; 20 walnut halves (around 30 g/¼ cup); 1 tbsp fennel seeds, toasted and ground

Preparation info

Makes
10
balls

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

East by West

By Jasmine Hemsley

Published 2017

About

I was inspired to make these chocolate Dosha walnut balls (or ‘chocolate brains’, if you like) for my friend Toni, who was pregnant and in need of snacks. I went through the cupboards in her kitchen, mixed up some maple syrup and ghee into a paste, spread it between two walnut halves and presented her with a little walnut whip sandwich – without the whip! She loved it and sent me back to make a few more. The next time I made them I took it up a level by dipping them in chocolate to transfor