Keep these bad boys in your fridge when you need a sweet, nutritious snack post-yoga or for dessert!
While this recipe calls for ingredients like shredded coconut, walnuts, and puffed millet, chocolate clusters can be as creative as you like, so feel free to substitute other ingredients you enjoy such as pecans, macadamia nuts, pistachios, or dried cranberries.
Instead of lemon zest, you could also flavor with cinnamon, cardamon, nutmeg — and you could even add herbal powders or mushroom powders for a superfood boost. I highly recommend 2 scoops of any of Four Sigmatic’s blends (use code YOGALOVESYOU for 10% off!).
This recipe is great because the chocolate melting process takes some time, which allows you to prep other things or get different stuff done in the kitchen.
Prep/Cook time: 45 minutes
Ingredients:
1 and 3/4 cup of 85% organic dark chocolate chips (and/or break up a chocolate bar)
1/3 heaping cup of organic chopped walnuts
Small handful of organic shredded coconut
1/3 cup puffed organic millet (optional)
Zest of 1 small organic lemon
Sea salt (flaked is ideal)
Equipment needed:
Double boiler (or a small pot that can fit into a larger pot)
Lemon zester or grater
Parchment paper
Sheet pan or cookie sheet
A pan to lightly roast the nuts
I get my walnuts from two places - Thrive Market has them organic, sprouted, and dried, and Patagonia Provisions carries Old Dog Ranch Walnuts, grown using Regenerative Organic farming practices, which is currently the best solution in halting climate change!
Instructions:
Get the double boiler ready by filling the larger pot with water, floating the smaller pot inside the larger pot, and heating on medium.
Add chocolate to the smaller pot and stir regularly as it melts.
While it’s melting, assemble your other ingredients, chop the nuts, zest the lemon, place a piece of parchment paper on your cookie sheet or sheet pan, and lightly toast the chopped nuts in the pan.
Once the chocolate is smooth and melted, let it cool for 3 or so minutes.
Add the toasted nuts, millet, coconut, and lemon zest to the chocolate and mix together.
Spoon out the mixture into clusters on the parchment paper.
Sprinkle salt on top of each cluster.
Pop them in the fridge (or outside if the weather is cool) to solidify - should take 25 minutes.
ENJOY!
