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Hi everyone, I'm Lisa Manzo, registered holistic nutritionist, fitness trainer

owner of Pure Energy Wellness Lofts, and author of the book Healthy is Sexy. I am

so excited to share with you this simple four ingredient chocolate maca truffle

It is decadent, it is so creamy, but we are using no cream. I'm so excited to

share this with you, especially in this weather that has us feeling gloomy. This

chocolate recipe is gonna lift and boost those moods, so join me for this

simple, simple recipe right next. Welcome to Real Food Live! Hi everyone, Lisa Manzo here making some dark chocolate maca truffles. So you

might wonder, wow this sounds decadent, this sounds like it's filled with all

the things that I typically don't consume in my diet, meaning dairy

additives, preservatives, all that stuff, but I've made it free of all of that. So

today I'm going to show you how to make it. It's very simple and I keep

reiterating simple because in most of my shows I do try to show you that recipes

can be simple yet delicious, and you can make them in advance, put them in the

fridge, and then you're good to go. So that's what it's all about, is really

using our time most effectively. So right now I have some dairy-free

nut-free, soy-free, free of everything chocolate chips, and the brand that I

really, really like is Enjoy Life, and they have a great product on the market

called Mega Chunks which melts really, really quickly as opposed to the

chocolate chips. They do also have chocolate chips that you could add into banana bread recipes and muffins and stuff of that sort, but I decided to use

the Mega Chunks only because I will be melting this on the stove, and it's a

very, very quick. And I really like this product because like I mentioned, it's

really free of all of the common allergens, so the dairy, the nuts, the soy

so everybody can enjoy it in your household, not only making them but

eating them as well. So you'll just have to fight over who licks the bowl first. I

also have with me my avocado, so I'm using one Hass ripe avocado that I'll

be mashing. You can definitely do this recipe in a food processor or you know a

high-speed blender, but today I'm gonna just leave all those gadgets out and I'm

actually going to use a very simple potato masher and my knife, and we're

gonna do it this way. So avocado is the base, so typically with chocolate

truffles, heavy cream is the base of them, and that's where you're getting that

nice heavy dense truffle and it's decadent. But I promise you these

truffles are as decadent and as dense just using heart-healthy avocado, okay

And then to coat these these beautiful decadent truffles, I'm using maca. So

please remember that you can spice up these truffles and any recipe that we

show you here to add your own individual flair. So you can also add or

roll the truffles in cacao powder, you can roll them in shredded coconut or

nuts if you're not, if you don't have a nut allergy, or chia seeds, flax seeds

anything of that sort. I decided to use maca and I'll tell you a little

why later. I've also decided to use Himalayan sea salt, so although I'll roll

some of them in the maca powder, I'll also leave some of them with just the

chocolate and sprinkle that Himalayan sea salt for all its amazing mineral

benefits. And I'll also be adding some sea salt, just regular sea salt, into the

truffle mixture. So let's get started, so excited here. So I'm gonna grab my bowl

and the first thing I'm going to do is cut my avocado. So opening up that

avocado, so we all know the incredible health benefits of avocado, we've talked

a lot about its healthy fats and that avocados are great to add into the diet

not only for your hair and your skin, which definitely is a huge benefit for

you women out there, but also because of its essential fatty acids and how really

great it is for our heart and our health in general. So I'm going to just scoop out

so I've basically cut the avocado into smaller pieces so that I can easily take

it out and then it's a lot easier to mash as well. So guys, while I'm making

these truffles, please please please send me your comments. I have my computer here

I am ready to multitask and answer any questions that you have. If you just want

to shout out and give me a shout out that you're here so I don't feel so

lonely on the camera, I'm okay with that too. So taking out the pit, I find it

easier to just take my knife, stab that pit and twist it out. So as you can tell

it's quite easy to make these truffles without a blender or food

processor, but if you really don't want to get your hands dirty you can most

definitely use one. So I really also like to make this with my daughter

because when it gets to the rolling part, she loves to get her hands in there and

roll balls, it's actually quite fun for her. So I'm just gonna take the potato

masher and I am going to mash the avocado. You really want to get it to a

point where it's nice and smooth so there's no clumps, no lumps in it, which

could require some muscle. Okay so I'm gonna continue that and in the meantime

I'm gonna take my dark chocolate chips, mega chunk chips, about 3 quarters of a

cup, I'm gonna place it into a bowl. You can melt this, you know I'm not a huge

fan of microwaves, but if you do have a microwave and you are lacking in time, you can melt the chocolate in the microwave for about 20 seconds, stir it

put it back in for another 15 seconds, again until it's nice and smooth. I'm

actually going to put it on my stove here. So I'm very lucky in the fact that

GE electric stoves or gas stoves, sorry, have a function where I can melt

chocolate directly on the heat with a metal bowl and that is a savior for me

So I'm gonna melt this with my spoon here, I'm just gonna turn it around. So

for those of you who have started to get to know me now here on the show, you

really know how much I love, love, love chocolate. I have a love affair with

chocolate and there's so many reasons why. Chocolate is filled with emotional

boosting properties and in the weather that we're having here in Toronto, it's

quite gloomy, we haven't seen the Sun in a few days and so it's, it's to the point

where we need a little bit of a boost and chocolate gives you that. Chocolate

is actually one of the staples in my house, I always have it in the fridge for

whenever I need a little boost or a little sweet treat, I know that I'm getting something healthy and I'm very much about no preservatives and no

additives and no MSG, so making something like this you can feel comfortable that

you, you know, you're getting a healthy treat and you're not sacrificing your

health. So we're gonna head over back to the avocado mixture and I'm gonna make

sure it's mashed even more so and don't be afraid if you get a little bit of

that avocado skin in there, that's where you need the kids to point out those

little, little things. So I'm just gonna check some of the comments here, again if

you have any comments please send them in, have you made this before, have you made it in a different way? Good morning Sherry, so I'm hoping that you're as

excited as I am about this in this awesome truffle recipe. I know

Valentine's Day is kind of a little further out, it's in about a month or so

but I always like to plan ahead of, ahead of time and I really like making these

truffles in advance and keeping them in the fridge so that once Valentine's Day

hits, me and my hubby can enjoy them with a little glass of Prosecco of course

Okay, so as you can see my avocado mixture is nice and smooth, so very

little clumps here, very, very easy. Who out there loves avocado as much as I do

I can eat avocado in any which way, whether it's guacamole, whether it's just

on a wrap, on its own, in a chocolate pudding. This recipe is very similar also

to my chocolate pudding recipe except I add a sweetener, maple syrup or honey to

that and that's a huge hit in this house as well. So really avocado could be used

for so many things. So as you can tell it's nice and creamy, nice and smooth

Let's go check our chocolate and see if that's ready to be mixed in with the avocado. Almost there, wonderful. So that's almost ready. Oh so tempted to

lick my fingers but I won't. I'm gonna just put a pinch of sea salt into this

avocado mixture here. Great. So send me some comments, where are you, where are you

watching me from? Is it cold there? Are you feeling like you need an energy

boost or a mood boost? Because I know I do. I need to see the sun so this

chocolate recipe is gonna help me in the meantime. Alright so we're almost done

with that chocolate. I'm gonna put it a little bit higher just because I can

with this stove. Grabbing my gloves so I don't burn myself here. So like I

mentioned I am going to coat the chocolate truffles in maca and some

people may or may not have ever heard of maca but maca is a root and it's

converted into a powder and there are so many health benefits to maca. I adore it

Being a female it helps boost our hormones, it helps with fertility, with

energy but for men, men should really start incorporating this powder into

their smoothies, into their cereals because it is an aphrodisiac. So just

something to think about. It's a great powder. It also is filled with so

many minerals such as calcium and zinc and phosphorus and magnesium and

potassium as well as sterols and lipids and fiber, carbohydrates, protein, must I

go on, essential fatty acids. So all the great things that we do lack in

our diet and that we do need to get from food. So something to think about to

start adding in. It's got a great taste and it's just different, something

different to start adding and I think my chocolates done. So we're gonna bring the

chocolate over to the avocado and I am going to pour the chocolate into this

mixture. I love the color combination here with the chocolate and that vibrant

green avocado. So remember guys we really eat with our eyes and seducing our eyes

is so important, seducing our eyes with healthy healthy foods. So I want to

talk a little bit about eating healthier and how you can start changing

your taste buds to crave more of those healthy foods. So as you start eating a

healthier diet and ridding your diet of you know preservatives and additives, MSG, all that kind of stuff, your body starts to crave more of the

healthier foods which is amazing. Our bodies are incredible in that way and so

when you start eating foods that have less refined sugar, when you do decide to

have something with a lot of sugar that you do not normally do and you've

eliminated it from your diet, it doesn't taste like it used to and that's

important to note that it doesn't taste good and it might give you some side

effects. You know it could give you headaches, there's side effects that

could happen because your body has eliminated those toxins already and so

that's the key is that we want to start eliminating our bodies of those toxins

and start introducing more real ingredients and more real food into our

diet. So why don't you send me some comments, let me know if you've had this

experience, if you've started eliminating specific foods into from your diet and that those foods that used to be yummy don't really taste yummy

anymore. It's actually quite fascinating. So I am going to mix the chocolate and

the avocado so that it's fully blended and you no longer see the avocado

anymore. So that requires just a little bit more mixing here. Once this is done

you're gonna place this mixture into the fridge. You want to make sure it's in the

fridge for at least 40 minutes so that that mixture can harden, harden enough

that we can roll it into balls. Okay, all right so perfect, perfect, great. So I'm

gonna wrap this with clear wrap and then I'll place it into the fridge. In the

meantime, oh we have so many comments, I'm so excited. I love your nail varnish

Thanks Elizabeth. That's actually funny that you commented on that because my

2018 New Year's resolution was to take care of myself more, so more self-care

and when I thought about what that would mean to me and what would make me feel

good and pretty was doing my nails. So I decided to book myself into the nail

salon, a local nail salon so a small business owner because I love to

represent small businesses, and book myself into a nail salon once a month. So

I appreciate you commenting on that because I adore them too. Thank you

Both the avocados and chocolate have the same amino acids that are great mood

boosters. Joan you're so right. So together it is a powerful, powerful

combination. This sounds delicious. So excellent, I am, so Meredith says that her

family loves dark chocolate and we always have several bars of 72% chocolate

in the fridge. You're watching from Boca in Florida, oh my gosh it's

probably so much warmer in there, but yes I always have dark chocolate in my

fridge too and we want to make sure it's at least higher than 70% and it's real

cacao and raw it's even better. So I'm gonna place this mixture into the fridge

and I do have a mixture that has been in the fridge for overnight so I'll take

that out. So my mixture here that's been in the fridge, I actually did it

overnight which I prefer because the chocolate is even harder but if you

don't have time that 40 minutes is totally enough. Watching from North

Cyprus, wow. So Wendy says wouldn't the heat cause the avocado to oxidize? Wendy

no, so when we're heating the chocolate it's not heated at a very high

temperature, it's just a very very low low low simmer, so it's just warming the

chocolate enough to melt but it's by no means hot when you're when you're adding

it in, but great question. So here is the mixture as you can see it's a lot harder

than what I just put in the fridge and I'm gonna use a cute little container to

display my truffles. So about one tablespoon of the mixture into your

hands and you are gonna roll them into a ball. So I'm gonna coat some of them with

the maca powder and I'm going to not coat some of them just to add in some

Himalayan sea salt just to make it them look a little bit different. So these

truffles make about depending on how large you're making them about eight to

ten so that's how many they will yield and they store really really well in the

fridge. I want to say up to five days but I really don't think they'll last that

long in your fridge. So once you're rolling them this is a great great

activity to do with your kids depending on their age of course. My daughter at

this age kind of just shoves them in her mouth and rolls them but not so much

like balls but that's okay it's part of the fun right. So keep sending in your

questions and another person's watching us from Florida. Oh my gosh it's so warm

there I love Florida. Hi from Florida, hi from South Africa just joined. Great so

I've rolled some of these here and I'm just gonna roll enough to fill this dish

and then we're going to take our maca powder you want to get a shallow dish

add in some of your maca powder on the shallow dish and then gently roll your

balls inside of it so that we can coat it and it's nice to do you know a

nice coat on it kind of helps keep the truffle together too. Okay you know I'm

gonna have to wash my hands before I coat them. Okay perfect so let me just

head over to the sink I'm just gonna wash my hands here. Great I'm gonna grab

a shallow bowl or somewhat shallow and I'm going to put my maca powder. So I

shared with you my 2018 goals and when I say goals it's really just things I want

to aim for. Why don't you share some of yours with me? I'd like to know what

everybody else is working on and remember goals are important, something to work towards but you have to think really hard about what it is that you

need for your life. I know 2018 is very big on self-care and self-love that's

what I've noticed but it could be different for you and I definitely

love learning off other people. So as you can tell I'm coating the truffles here

in the maca powder. Don't these look fantastic? I'm so excited, so excited, so

excited to eat them. I promised my daughter that I would save her a couple

and she definitely reminded me this morning before nursery school so she

doesn't forget anything, she has a great memory. Gotta be careful what you say

sometimes. So like I said you can coat some with maca powder, shredded coconuts

cacao, nuts, chia seeds, I can grab some of this Himalayan sea salt and I'm going

to put it on some of the the balls instead of coating them. So Himalayan sea

salt is fantastic, great sodium mineral. This sea salt here I decided to use is

coarse just for the the truffle recipe so it looked pretty. So please send me

some of your other questions, I'd love to answer anything. Have you guys ever made

truffles before? What have you used in say in replace of a heavy cream? Morning

Avocado Colorado, amazing, just joined. Thank you guys so much for joining us. So

here are our truffles, dark chocolate maca truffles, no heavy cream, no refined

sugars, four ingredients, avocado, you know your dark chocolate, little bit of sea

salt and our maca powder that we're just coating the truffles with. So they're

super tasty and they're really really decadent and that's really important because when they're very decadent you're less likely to overindulge because

remember overindulging in healthy foods is also something we want to steer away

from. It's all about balance and we're trying to find that balance all day every day, believe me I try to find it all the time. But with these balls you

won't be able to eat more than two because they are so decadent which is great. You have a couple, it's your sweet tooth, it'll satiate that and you're good

So I'm just gonna try these because I can't, they're in my face, I'm smelling it

they smell amazing. So you get that decadentness and the creaminess from the

avocado but it's that big hint of chocolate, very very good. So Valentine's

Day is coming up, this is something you can make in advance, store in the fridge

and you're good to go or for company or for yourself because we're talking about

self-care here. So make these for you, draw up some salt bath, a nice chamomile

tea and this should be your Friday night evening in this cold weather. But

if you're in Florida who knows what you're doing, probably something a lot more exotic. So thank you guys for joining us on Real Food Live, we're so

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