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Hey guys, I'm Talia Chai and welcome to another episode of Real Food Live
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Today I'm going to be showing you how to make a super, super delicious dessert
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You can have it as a snack, you can have it as a dessert, but it's really fast, as all
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of our recipes are, because we want to make your life as easy and simple and healthy as possible
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All right, in my food processor, I will be making super food matcha chocolate truffles
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I can't wait for you to see how easy it is. Let's get started
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First off, I have some walnuts that I toasted. Just toasted them, let them cool, going in
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And I have beautiful, beautiful medjool dates. These are my favorite dates to use
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They happen to be a little bit more expensive than other varieties of dates though, but
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I like them because they're super moist and caramel-y and just filled with flavor
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Now, these are very, very moist, so they don't need to be soaked
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They're going to blend really easily. However, if you are buying other varieties and you feel like the dates are a little bit
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dry, just cover them with water in a bowl and let them soak for 10 minutes, drain them
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and then put them in. Oh yeah, and you can take off these little, like, fibrous bits at the end
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We don't need those. So lid goes on. I'm just going to pulse this and blend it until it's ground down. Beautiful
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As you can see, there's little tiny granules. It's ground down really, really nicely, and that's just going to help it all get going together
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Next up, I'm going to add the rest of the ingredients for the truffles. So I'm going to start with some lovely raw cacao powder
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This is different than regular cocoa powder because it hasn't been heated in the same way
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So it's less refined, less heated, and cacao powder is really rich in iron and magnesium
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and so many other wonderful minerals. And so it's our chocolate. It's what's going to make these truffles taste like chocolate
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And then I'm going to add some raw coconut oil, which will...this will give them a nice
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glossy sheen, and it will help keep them nice and smooth and help to bind everything
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And also it's adding a healthy dose of fats. Some cinnamon powder
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I love the smell of cinnamon. And then vanilla extract. Pure vanilla extract is my favorite kind
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It's the highest quality, and it's just going to help to balance out the flavors, add a
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nice vanilla aroma. And then once again to balance out flavors, I have some sea salt
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Just a pinch going in. That's it. The lid goes back on, and I'm going to blend these until a dough, a ball of dough forms
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You'll see what I'm talking about. I'm going to take the lid off
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All right. I have...it's like almost turned into a complete ball of dough
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Just like this. I'm just going to get some of that cocoa powder in from the bottom
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Sometimes that happens when you're working with powders and you're blending. I'm going to get rid of this food processor
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Put it here. So I have my ball of beautiful truffle dough
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It's a little bit oily from the coconut oil, but that's good because I'm working with my hands and that means it's not going to stick too much
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Now all I'm going to do is I'm going to roll this into little balls and then toss those
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balls in some matcha. So I'm going to roll it just like this
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They're about half a tablespoon in size. Beautiful little truffle-sized balls. Then I'm going to dip that into a bowl of matcha powder like this and I'm going to pick
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it up and shake it around. So I'm tossing it in the matcha powder and look at that
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In about one second flat, just tap off the excess. We have a beautiful, minus my fingerprints on the side, matcha-covered chocolate truffle
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Get my little truffle. You can lick your fingers after. I won't tell
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Dropping it into the bowl, tossing it around. So gorgeous. And that goes on the plate. Nice
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All right, I'm going to do one more just to show you
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Just rolling that like so. Really really easy. Dropping it in, tossing it around, and voila
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We have our gorgeous truffles. I'm going to take a bite right now actually
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Just dust off the excess like that. Mmm. Mmm. Green tea, chocolate
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Such good flavor. All right guys, that's it for today. Thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next video
