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Healthy matcha truffles

Healthy matcha truffles

Chocolate truffles with black beans? At Del Monte, everything’s possible! You tested it yourself!

48
15 min
5 min
Prepared with:
Black Beans No Salt Added

Ingredients

  • 5 oz (150 g) dark chocolate
  • 1 can 14 oz (398 ml) Del Monte black beans
  • 6 fresh Medjool dates, pitted
  • ¼ c (60 ml) coconut oil
  • 1 ½ tbsp (22 ml) cocoa
  • 1 tsp (5 ml) matcha tea
  • 1 tsp (5 ml) coconut sugar

Preparation

  1. Put the chocolate in a bowl and place onto a saucepan of water to create a double boiler. Heat over medium-high and stir to melt chocolate. Remove bowl from saucepan and let cool.
  2. With a food processor, process the black beans and dates to obtain a smooth paste.
  3. Add melted chocolate and process until the smooth.
  4. Continue mixing and add the coconut oil.
  5. Transfer to a bowl and let cool in the fridge.
  6. On a plate, mix together cocoa, tea and sugar.
  7. Form chocolate mixture into small balls and coat in cocoa mixture.
  8. Serve at room temperature to enjoy the most melt-in-your-mouth truffles ever.