Winter Warming: Flaxseed Energy Balls

Super-healthy energy balls that can help you burn calories.

Ancient Ayurvedic medicine prescribes ground flaxseed to boost the metabolism and to warm you from the inside out. In parts of India where the winters are cold and they have no central heating people have a tradition of eating flaxseed to warm them up.

The scientific wisdom behind this is omega 3 helps to improve the signalling within the body and encourages spare calories to be burned, both keeps you warmer and helps keep the calories off your hips.  Feel great and look great!

Sugar Free, whole superfoods recipe

In this recipe the flaxseed is enhanced with fragrant warming spices. Every family has their own version and you can adjust the ingredients to suit your own taste. This is a traditional Indian recipe for energy balls called pinni laddoo. For me it’s important to have no added sugar, gluten-free, no wheat flour – and dairy-free.

• Wheat-free
• Gluten-free
• Dairy free
• No added sugar
• Lots of Omega-3
• Digestion-friendly fibre
• Low GI sweet

These are nutty, seedy, fragrantly spicy fudgy and lovely; like fruity fudge but tastier, less sweet and much healthier.

• A snack
• After dinner treat
• Healthy lunch-box filler
• Great with a coffee
• A sugar-free energy pick-me-up
• A delicious way to eat nseed

This is quick easy recipe is for a healthy version of the traditional Indian sweetmeat “alsi pinni laddoo/laddu” which I have been told about by numerous Indian-born ladies visiting my market stall at Borough Market. It always started “oh we use this (linseed) as a winter food”.

Tasty way to enjoy flaxseed

If you need to add flaxseed to your diet this is a concentrated tasty way of getting its health-digestion, hormone-balancing, joint-soothing benefits.

Flaxseed Pinni Laddoo Energy Balls

FLAXSEED PINNI LADDU/ ALSI LADOO/LINSEED ENERGY BALLS. Healthy version of traditional alsi ladoo, Indian energy balls made gluten-free and without sugar. Great healthy snack to cure sugar cravings, in lunch boxes, ideal sweet treat with coffee after a curry - or any other meal, any time.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 minute min

Total Time 56 minutes mins

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: Anti-inflammatory, Dairy-free, Low GI, Omega-3, Therapeutic, Vegan, Vegetarian

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 1 cup Flax Farm ground Flaxseed bronze or gold
• 1/4 cup coconut oil or tahini
• 1/2 cup dates
• 1/4 c cup dried apricots diced very small
• 1/4 cup sunflower seeds or ground almonds
• 1/4 cup pumpkin seed or ground almonds
• 3/4 tsp ground ginger
• 3/4 tsp mix ground spice
• 1/4 tsp ground cardamom
• 1 tbs runny honey or molasses
• 3 tbs oat flour ( or porridge oats flakes put in a blender/processor)
• juice of one small orange

Method

 

1. Place ground Flaxseed and spices in a mixing bowl.
2. Put dates, pumpkin and sunflower seeds in a food processor and whiz until coarsely ground powder, it may go a bit gooey and granular.
3. Warm coconut to measure out and place in a small pan over a gentle heat, add honey and orange juice. When hot add buckwheat flour, stir, then remove from heat and add all the other ingredients.
4. Mix well. Then kneed thoroughly and form into balls about he size of walnuts. Leave to cool.
   
5. Store in the fridge for up to one month or in a freezer for up to 3 months.
   

Flax Farm’s freshly cold-milled ground flaxseed is the
main ingredient in these energy balls. Both golden and
bronze flaxseed are equally delicious and nutritious,
so use whichever you prefer.

And energy balls are just one way to enjoy the goodness
of flaxseed. Simply stir a spoonful or two into porridge,
yoghurt, fruit, salads, baking or almost any everyday
dish for an easy boost of omega-3, fibre and other
valuable nutrients.