pumpkin protein bars

Suitable for: Gluten and dairy free, vegan

Serves: 8 bars

Takes: 10 minutes + chilling time

Ingredients:

250g mixed nuts and seeds, whatever you have in the cupboard

50g desiccated coconut

4 tbsp Meridian pumpkin seed butter

50g coconut oil, melted

1 tbsp Meridian agave syrup

2 tsp vanilla extract

50g orange flavour vegan chocolate

Method:

  1. Line a 20cm x 15cm tin or tupperware with greaseproof paper.
  2. Put the nuts and seeds into a food processor and blitz to a fine meal. Add the coconut, sunflower seed butter, coconut oil, agave syrup and vanilla and blitz again so that the mixture starts to clump.
  3. Press the mixture into the prepared tin and freeze while you melt the chocolate.
  4. Gently melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of barely simmering water. Stir until it’s smooth then set aside for a few minutes to cool.
  5. Drizzle over the base then return to the fridge to firm up then cut into bars.

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