Organic Vegan Nutella Chocolate Hazelnut Spread

By Stephen Howard


It's great to eat healthy food, and it really affects your general health condition. Well, it is also nice to have something sweet, and, if you are vegan, it's not always easy to find really delicious sweets to enjoy. Luckily, you can make some in your own kitchen, and here you can find one ridiculously simple and easy recipe for amazingly tasty spread you will just love.

All you need for this delicious treat is one good blender, the type you would normally use for smoothies. Of course, for this organic vegan nutella chocolate hazelnut spread the most important ingredients are organic hazelnuts. Good quality dairy free chocolate and some maple syrup or some dark molasses, and that's it.

In fact, the best results are really achieved using some good quality smoothie maker, because your spread will be much creamier. So, take four cups good quality organic hazelnuts and two cups organic, dairy free dark chocolate. You will also need a spoon or two organic molasses. You can use maple syrup instead, but it is really tastier this way.

Nuts should be roasted first, to release the oils. For this purpose, preheat the oven on 175 degrees Celsius and roast them for ten to fifteen minutes, shaking the pan once or twice. Prepare kitchen towels and put warm roasted nuts on. Cover with another towel and roll with your hands to remove the skin. Use clean towels to repeat this.

Put the hazelnuts in your blender and process until they become kind of a paste, like a hazelnut butter. Now it is time to add melted dairy free chocolate. Taste the mixture and add some molasses or maple syrup to adapt it to your taste. Adding liquids will make your spread a little bit harder, but the taste will be great.

Some of you don't want to use dark chocolate in your recipes, and that's perfectly fine. In this case, you will need some organic cocoa instead. The spread might not be so creamy in this case, but you will still love it. Although you may add cocoa as it is, it's actually better to mix it with a small quantity of hot water first. It will make the whole thing creamier.

When you use organic cocoa in your recipe, enrich your mixture adding some good quality molasses and a little spoon of vanilla extract. Blend all the ingredients together and put it all in one large jar. You can keep it all in the fridge for a few weeks, although, it is so good it probably won't last so long. Just try not to eat it all at once.

As you can see, the recipe is extremely simple. It doesn't mean you cannot improve it. So, experiment with the tastes. For example, you may add more vanilla. Or you could use orange oil to spice it up. This is quite simple thing to do. Prepare fresh orange zest and squeeze a drop or two of fresh orange oil. Or you could spice the water for cocoa with some cloves or cinnamon. Just boil these spices for a few minutes and use this spiced water.




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