How to reuse the dried fruit parties? If you have stocked up on nuts and dehydrated fruit it's time to understand how to make the most of it to prepare many homemade delicacies.
Think about how many sweet and savory snacks you can prepare with raisins, dried figs and dates or the condiments and sauces to be made with walnuts or pistachios following the traditions of your region and your tastes.
Here is a collection of ideas and recipes selected to best reuse the dried fruit for holidays.
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Energy bars
Choose i dates as an ingredient for your homemade energy bars. You can chop them or blend them to form a date purée useful for mixing the bars.
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2) Date muffins
With dates and coconut flour you can prepare delicious homemade exotic muffins to be served as a snack or at breakfast. Everyone will like them, even children.
Read also: EXOTIC CHOCOLATE, COCONUT AND DATE MUFFINS
3) Stuffed dates
I stuffed dates of mascarpone and walnuts are a classic Christmas recipe. If you want you can make a lighter version by choosing almonds or almond cream as a filling instead of mascarpone. Here is an example.
: Vegeintable
DRIED FIGS
Panforte
Panforte is a typical dessert of the Christmas period of some regions of your country starting from Tuscany. If you have any dried figs left over, use them to prepare a delicious panforte.
Read also: CHRISTMAS PANFORTE: THE VEGAN RECIPE TO PREPARE IT AT HOME
2) Dried figs with chocolate
I dried figs covered with chocolate they are a dessert that you can easily prepare with dark chocolate with which to make a cream to garnish. Here the recipe.
: Tipì Casa
Dried figs stuffed with almonds
This Salento-inspired recipe suggests preparing the stuffed dried figs with almonds. You should start with fresh figs but you can also try with already dried figs. Here the recipe.
: Spizzica in Salento
RAISINS
Apple and raisin strudel
One of the easiest ways to use raisins is to choose it as a filling for one homemade strudel, along with apples. Experiment with your favorite recipe.
Read also: APPLE STRUDEL: THE ORIGINAL RECIPE AND 10 VARIATIONS
Muffin all’uvetta
If you like raisins but don't have time to prepare a homemade panettone at home, use it as an ingredient to enrich your muffin habitual.
Read also: WHOLEMEAL MUFFINS WITH APPLES AND RAISINS
Homemade muesli
With raisins, oat flakes, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, almonds, walnuts and hazelnuts you can prepare the perfect homemade muesli for breakfast.
NOCI
Nut butter
Do not miss the nut butter, a self-produced vegetable butter with a strong taste perfect to replace butter as a condiment for pasta and risotto but also in any other savory dish. It is excellent to combine with vegetables and to enrich sauces.
Read also: WALNUT BUTTER: THE RECIPE TO PREPARE IT AT HOME
2) Pesto with walnuts
Have you ever tried to prepare the walnut pesto to dress pasta or to spread on bread? Walnut pesto is a truly delicious recipe. We suggest that you blend the walnuts together with the extra virgin olive oil and if you want you can also add the pine nuts. Here the recipe.
Read also: 10 ALTERNATIVE RECIPES TO TRADITIONAL PESTO
Walnuts Bread
If you follow a basic recipe to prepare the bread with sourdough all you have to do is add some walnuts to the dough to enrich it with taste and crunchiness. THU our recipe for homemade walnut bread with sourdough.
Read also: HOME MADE WALNUT BREAD WITH MOTHER PASTA
HAZELNUTS
Hazelnut butter
And finally here is the hazelnut butter that you can use above all as an alternative to cow butter to prepare cakes and biscuits but also as a base for your self-produced Nutella. Both the hazelnut butter and the homemade cocoa and hazelnut cream will also be delicious simply to spread on bread.
Read also: HAZELNUT BUTTER: THE RECIPE TO PREPARE IT AT HOME
Homemade vegan nutella
Hazelnuts and cocoa are the main ingredients to prepare a fantastic self-produced Nutella. Try our homemade vegan nutella recipe.
Read also: HOME MADE VEGAN NUTELLA
Hazelnut brownies
The brownies are delicious cocoa and hazelnut sweets, try to prepare them in a light version following our recipe for homemade brownies.
Read also: BROWNIES WITH COCOA AND HAZELNUTS
ALMOND
Almond Butter
If you want to experiment with a self-produced vegetable butter with a delicate flavor and especially suitable for preparing desserts and to spread on bread together with jam, try our almond butter. By preparing it at home you will save a lot compared to the almond cream that is on sale.
Read also: ALMOND BUTTER: THE RECIPE TO PREPARE IT AT HOME
2) Almond milk
Il almond milk it is a vegetable drink rich in calcium. There are numerous recipesfor its preparation. We present the faster version, which requires neither cooking nor a long soaking of the almonds. The almond milk prepared in this way, it can be stored in the refrigerator for two or three days.
Read also: HOME MADE ALMOND MILK
3) Almond paste
You just need to finely chop the almonds until you get a flour to have the basic ingredient available to prepare the almond paste according to the Sicilian recipe.
Read also: ALMOND PASTA: THE SICILIAN RECIPE
PEANUTS
Peanut butter
Homemade peanut butter has nothing to do with the product we usually find for sale. In fact, our self-made alternative does not contain palm oil or other unwanted ingredients. In fact, it is enough to blend peanuts to prepare it, adding only a little water and good oil if necessary.
Read also: PEANUT BUTTER: THE RECIPE TO PREPARE IT AT HOME
2) Peanut soup
Among African recipes that you can prepare at home with satisfaction but also in a really simple way here is the peanut soup. Among the ingredients you will need are white onion, shallot, potatoes, ginger and chilli. This dish is typical of the Congo. Here is the recipe to follow.
Read also: 10 VEGAN RECIPES FROM AFRICAN CUISINE
: Borders
Peanut sauce or Satay sauce
La peanut sauce is a tasty and spicy dressing sauce made by adding paprika, chilli, ginger and sesame oil to the peanuts. Here is the recipe to follow.
: Super Mom
PISTACHIOS
Spreadable pistachio cream
With pistachios you can prepare one sweet spread cream adding extra virgin olive oil, almond milk and a small amount of whole cane sugar or honey or agave syrup. Here our recipe.
Read also: PISTACHIOS: 5 IDEAS FOR USE IN THE KITCHEN
Pistachio pesto
If you love pistachios, why not use them to prepare a tasty one homemade pesto? You can blend the shelled pistachios with extra virgin olive oil and combine them with pine nuts, or almonds, with the addition of basil or parsley. Here is the recipe to inspire you.
Couscous with pistachios
Choose without problems whole or chopped pistachios such as seasoning for couscous or pasta. Pistachios will give an extra touch of taste. Here the recipe.
; Cremedicreme
Which ones are they your favorite recipes with dried fruit?
