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November 5, 2020

How to make red grape and coconut truffles from scratch

By Maria Tikka ANutr, MMedSci
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Hi everyone, welcome to the first day of England’s second national lockdown!

Baking and experimenting with new recipes could be great ways to cope with stress or just deal with indoor boredom. Wherever you live, I hope you are safe and in the mood to cook!

Today I have another coconut truffle recipe. Many of you loved my Greek coconut truffles, so I decided to create a vegan version without added sweeteners. Both recipes are high fibre, gluten free and very easy to make! I hope you will enjoy this version as the original one.

I came up with today’s igredients one night when I was having sweet cravings and I only had white seedless grapes and dessicated coconut at home! When I tasted them together I was very surprised, it was delicious! You can find the post on my instagram account.

The first time I combined grapes with coconut!

Meanwhile I had just started experimented with coconut flour! Coconut flour is a really strong thickener, so it was an ideal igredient to create a thick batter without adding eggs! Coconut flour has a salty flavour though comparing to dessicated coconut, this is why I only added a couple of tablespoons in the recipe.

The coconut flour I used. Click on the picture!

Grapes (black, red or white) are so sweet there is no need to use artificial sweeteners or other added sugars and they have a low glycaemic index (46). That makes them great igredients for low glycaemic desserts, if you pay attention to your blood glucose levels!

  • The baking process is very simple, but you need an oven with the “upper and lower” heat setting, or another similar setting to make sure the truffles will be baked on both sides without flipping them!
  • You can make the recipe with any grapes you want or even mix grapes with different colours!
  • You can store the truffles in the fridge in a sealed container for a couple of days! Actually they are delicious when they are chilled!
The batter will have these colours before baking if you mix white and red grapes! I took this photo at Talacre Park, London.
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Let’s move on to the recipe!

Vegan red grape coconut truffles

Vegan, gluten free and high fibre oven-baked coconut and grape truffles. You can make them with any seedless grapes you prefer.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Resting Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine European, Mediterranean
Servings 10 trufffles
Calories 115 kcal

Equipment

  • oven with conventional heating setting
  • food processor
  • cooking paper
  • large mixing container/ bowl
  • oven tray

Ingredients
  

  • 200 grams seedless reg grapes
  • 100 grams plain coconut yogurt (I have used koko plain yogurt)
  • 120 grams dessicated coconut
  • 30 grams coconut flour (2 tbsp)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Optional

  • 10 grams unsweetened cocoa powder (2 tsp for coating)

Instructions
 

  • In your mixing container, mix the dessicated coconut with the coconut flour.
  • Put the grapes in the food processor. Turn it on and blend for 20-30 seconds.
  • Add the vanilla extract and coconut yogurt in the food processor with the grape juice. Turn on the food processor and blend for 10 more seconds.
  • Start preheating the oven to 150° C.
  • Gradually add the blended grape juice- yogurt mixture to the dessicated coconut/coconut flour blend. Mix with a wooden spoon.
  • Mix the igredients until smooth
  • This is how the batter will look like when you finish!
  • Put a piece of cooking paper on the oven tray. Pinch off pieces of the mixture to roll into 10 truffles. Make sure the truffles as firm as possible.
  • Put the tray in the oven. Keep the temperature to 150° C and select the conventional/"upper and lower" heat setting.
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  • After 45 minutes turn the heat off and remove the truffles from the oven. Let them cool down for at least 30 minutes.
  • You are ready to serve! If you are a cocoa powder addict, you can coat the truffles with unsweetened cocoa powder. Two teaspoons are enough for 10 truffles.

Notes

Net carbohydrates per truffle: 6.1 g
Fibre per truffle: 4g 
Protein per truffle: 1.5g 
Glycaemic Index: 38.3
Glycaemic Load: 2.3
 
 
 
If you cover with unsweetened cocoa powder:
Net carbohydrates per truffle: 6.3g
Fibre per truffle: 4.3g
Protein per truffle: 1.7g
Glycaemic Index: 36.9 
Glycaemic Load: 2.3
 
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Keyword coconut truffles, gluten free recipe, vegan recipe
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About The Author

My name is Maria Tikka. I am a Registered Associate Nutritionist and a biologist. I post about nutrition topics, healthy lifestyle tips, weight management advice and healthy recipes!

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