Homemade Healthier Nutella
This Homemade Nutella couldn't be easier to make! Just 6 ingredients, and lower in sugar than the regular kind, it's delicious for breakfast or a snack.
Servings: 33 servings
Calories: 53kcal
Ingredients
- 200 g Hazelnuts
- 8 Medjool dates stoned removed
- Boiled water
- 60 g Cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoon Maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 125 ml Whole milk
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180°C/160°C(fan)/350°F/Gas 4. Line a large baking tray with baking paper. Boil your kettle.
- Put 8 Medjool dates into a bowl and cover with Boiled water. Leave to soak.
- Spread 200 g Hazelnuts over the lined baking tray and put into the preheated oven for 10 minutes.
- Once roasted, work quickly to remove the skins from the hazelnuts as they are easier to remove whilst still warm. Don't worry if some stubborn ones still have skin on.
- Process the nuts in a high powered blender until a smooth nut butter forms.When blending, trust the process. The hazelnuts will go from whole, to a floury mixture which will seem like nothing is happening. But keep scraping the sides down and blending and it will all start to smooth out. Scraping it down gives the blender breaks too, so it doesn't overheat.
- Drain the dates and add to the hazelnut butter along with 60 g Cocoa powder, 2 tablespoon Maple syrup, 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract and 125 ml Whole milk.
- Process the mixture on high until it is smooth. Transfer to a jar and store for up to 1 week in the fridge.
Notes
- If you are trying to convince your kids that this is the real thing, then after you have finished a jar of Nutella you can wash it out and fill it with this. They will never know!
- You need a high powdered food processor to make this. You can use a blender, but you won't get a really creamy and smooth Nutella.
- Blending time will depend on the blender that you are using. Some will take longer than others.
- To make this healthy Nutella really smooth, you could add a couple of tablespoons of coconut oil to it. This would change the flavour a little though.
- The more full your food processor is, the easier it will be to blend the ingredients. So, if you doubled the batch of this, it would blend faster. But then you would have a lot of Nutella - not that that is a bad thing.
- If you really wanted to, you could even make this recipe sugar free. It would taste very bitter though.
- Make sure to sift your cocoa powder if it is clumpy.
- You can add a pinch of salt to balance out the sweetness of the sugar and the nuttiness of the hazelnuts.
- If you want to make it softer when it comes out of the fridge, spoon out your serving and put it in the microwave for 30 seconds.
Nutrition
Serving: 1tablespoon | Calories: 53kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 0.5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 0.5mg | Sodium: 2mg | Potassium: 89mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 8IU | Vitamin C: 0.4mg | Calcium: 16mg | Iron: 1mg
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