Name: Minted matcha & almond balls
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: Makes 20
Ingredients: 3 tbsp/45 ml hemp powder; 1 tbsp/15 ml dried sea salad; 20 large mint leaves; 75 g/3 oz/½ cup unblanched almonds; 1 tsp/5 ml matcha tea blend or the contents of 1 matcha tea bag; 2 tbsp/30 ml pumpkin seed butter; 2 tbsp/30 ml unsweetened almond milk or water; 75 g/3 oz/4 ready-to-eat dried pear halves or 6 dried apricots; 50 g/2 oz/generous ½ cup unsweetened desiccated (dry shredded) coconut; Grated zest and juice of 1 lemon; 1 tsp/5 ml hemp or moringa powder to finish (optional)

Preparation info

Makes
20

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
10 min

Appears in

Energy Balls & Power Bites

By Sara Lewis

Published 2017

About

These fresh-tasting power balls are refreshingly moist with the clean zingy flavour of mint and lemon combined with antioxidant-rich Japanese matcha tea.

Ingredients

20 large mint leaves
1 tsp/5 ml matcha tea blend or the contents of

Method

Add the mint leaves, matcha tea, sea salad and hemp powder to a food processor then add the seed butter, almonds and pear or apricots and blitz until finely chopped.
Add the coconut, lemon zest and juice, and milk or water, and blend again until the mixture begins to clump together.
Squeeze the mixture into a ball, take out of the processor bowl and c