Vegan Homemade Sugar-free Nutella

There were days in my life I would have a spoon of Nutella with almost every meal as a dessert. After I chose to be vegan, I gave away 2 jars of unopened nutella. It was as if my heart was being ripped out. And as days passed, I slowly let it go until last week I got a pack of hazelnut and I recreated refined sugar free, gluten free, dairy free, vegan Nutella. 5 ingredients and world of heaven.

You need:

Medjool dates-8/more for sweeter-soaked in warm water for 15 minutes
Cacao Powder-1 Tbsp + 1 tsp /more for chocolaty
Hazelnuts-250 grams
Concentrated Vanilla extract-1 tsp (make it 2 tsp for normal)
Salt-a pinch.
Water-3 Tbsp.

Method:

Preheat the oven to 200 C/390 F and turn the oven off.
Add hazelnuts onto a tray, chuck them in an oven for 15 mins. Take them out and check if the skin would come off. Else, repeat the process and wait until you can remove the skin.
Let it cool, add it into a food processor and process until it is broken into bits and starts to get into a nut butter consistency.
Once nice and runny,add dates, cacao,vanilla,salt and turn your processor on. It would start to lump. Time to add water.
One Tbsp at a time and process until you get nutella consistency
Store in an air-tight jar for up to 7 days. It never lasts longer.

Vegan Sugar-free Nutella

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Prep time

20 mins

Cook time

10 mins

Total time

30 mins

Vegan Homemade Sugar-free Nutella

Author: Charanya

Recipe type: Vegan,Vegetarian,Gluten-free,Dairy-free,Refined Sugar-free,Soy-free,Coconut-free, Oil-free

Cuisine: Italian

Serves: 1 jar

Ingredients

Medjool dates-8/more for sweeter-soaked in warm water for 15 minutes
Cacao Powder-1 Tbsp + 1 tsp /more for chocolaty
Hazelnuts-250 grams
Concentrated Vanilla extract-1 tsp (make it 2 tsp for normal)
Salt-a pinch.
Water-3 Tbsp.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 200 C/390 F and turn the oven off.
Add hazelnuts onto a tray, chuck them in an oven for 15-20 mins. Take them out and remove skin.They would come off. There might be few here & there. It's okay.
Let it cool, add it into a food processor and process until it is broken into bits and starts to get into a nut butter consistency.
Once nice and runny,add dates, cacao,vanilla,salt and turn your processor on. It would start to lump. Time to add water.
One Tbsp at a time and process until you get nutella consistency
Store in an air-tight jar for up to 7 days. It never lasts longer.