If you love chocolate and hazelnuts, Nutella is the perfect match. Unfortunately, its ingredients are not that perfect.
Once you look a bit more closely, it’s not just a lot of calories in there but also ingredients which you rather not have in your body.
Regular Nutella consists mainly of palm oil, white sugar, some milk powder and a tiny amount of hazelnuts plus some cocoa.
What to do?
Make it yourself.
It takes 2 minutes, tastes delicious and you can choose the quality of the ingredients used.
Here are 2 Nutella / Rawtella / Notella recipes, one with almonds and one with hazelnuts. They are both delicious!
RECIPE FOR RAW VEGAN ALMOND NUTELLA
Ingredients:
3/4 cup almond butter
1/4 cup raw cacao paste (= raw cacao liquor) or raw cacao powder
1 date*
stevia, to taste*
1/4 vanilla bean, scraped
1/4 tsp sea salt
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*Alternative for sweetness: Swap the date & stevia for 3-4 TBSP agave, maple, coconut or yacon syrup
Preparation:
Place all ingredients in a high speed blender and blend until smooth.
Sweeten to taste.
Store cool & dry in an airtight container, e.g. mason jar, for up to 1 month.
RECIPE FOR RAW VEGAN HAZEL NUTELLA
Ingredients:
3/4 cup hazelnut butter or 1 cup hazelnuts
1/4 cup raw cacao paste (= raw cacao liquor) or raw cacao powder
3-4 TBSP maple syrup or agave
1/4 vanilla bean, scraped
1/4 tsp sea salt
Preparation:
If using whole hazelnuts, blend those first until they begin to form a paste.
Place all ingredients in a high speed blender and blend until smooth.
Sweeten to taste.
Store cool & dry in an airtight container, e.g. mason jar, for up to 1 month.