4 useful goodies from cherry

Summer - the perfect time for all those who love delicious and healthy dishes. The shelves are crammed with vegetables, fruits and berries, and we try to have time to prepare as much as possible treats. Cherry - Berry today. Will be delicious, I promise! ;)

If you can not find the sweet cherries, it can be easily replaced with cherries!

1. Chocolate truffles with cherry

Ingredients

• 2 cups pitted dates;
• 4 tablespoons of cocoa powder;
• ½ teaspoon vanilla;
• 12-16 pitted cherries.

preparation

Grinds dates in a food processor. Add to cocoa and vanilla and again all is well stirred until smooth.

Are forming small balls, make them deepen, puts back cherry and wraps. Truffles can be ready to roll in coconut or chopped nuts.

2. Banana-cherry smoothie

Ingredients

• 1 large banana;
• 1 cup cherry;
• 1 cup strawberries;
• 240 ml of water.

preparation

Clean the banana peel and remove pits from cherries. Lay out all the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. For more cool cocktail can be a bit of pre-freeze cherries, strawberries and banana.

3. Brownie with cherry

Ingredients

• ½ cup toasted almonds;
• ½ cup macadamia nuts or walnuts;
• ½ cup cocoa powder;
• ⅛ teaspoon salt;
• 1 ¼ cup pitted dates (about 12 pieces);
• 12 pitted cherries.

preparation

Grinds the nuts in a food processor. Adding cocoa powder, salt, some dates and milled again, gradually adding the remaining dates, until the mixture is completely homogeneous. Then add half or slightly crushed cherries (but not mush) berries.

Lay out the mixture into a rectangular or square mold, the laid paper baking. Slightly pressuete fingers to a thickness of several centimeters and sending a refrigerator for an hour.

You pull out and cut into small squares. The resulting treats can take on a training or feeding coffee or green tea.

4. Lemonade with cherries

Ingredients

• ½ cup cherries, pitted;
• ¼ cup freshly squeezed lime or lemon juice;
• 2 tea spoons of sugar (can be more if necessary);
• 2 glasses of mineral water with gas.

preparation

Whip until smooth in a blender puree the cherries, sugar and lime juice or lemon. Try and, if necessary, add more Sahara.

Then filter through a puree or cheesecloth to remove fruit peels. As a result, you should have about 1 cup of cherry-citrus juice.

Mix the juice with mineral water, is poured into a glass, add some ice and filing on the table. As decoration, you can use whole cherries and thin slices of lime.