Not just porridge and soup: healthy pumpkin candies that even children can eat

In addition to everyone's favorite porridge or soup, pumpkin can be used to make healthy candies. We are talking about chocolate-covered pumpkin and date sweets. This homemade dessert is completely natural and sugar-free. And kids will not even realize what they are made of when they try them.

Food blogger Yulia Fedorenko with the nickname fedorenko_pp shared a recipe for healthy pumpkin candies without sugar on her Instagram page.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin - 350 g
• dates - 100 g
• coconut flakes - 40 g
• chocolate - 100 g

Method of preparation:

1. Peel the pumpkin, remove seeds, and cut it into small pieces. Bake in the oven until soft.

2. Remove date pits.

3. Beat pumpkin with dates in a blender until smooth.

4. Add the coconut flakes to the mixture and beat again until smooth.

5. Form small candies from the resulting mass. Put them in the refrigerator for a while to stabilize.

6. Meanwhile, melt the dark chocolate in a water bath or in the microwave.

7. Pour the melted chocolate over the candies and leave them to harden.