Super Food- Chocolate-Pumpkin Seed-Pine Nut Jumbles by Ric Orlando

Chocolate-Pine Nut-Pumpkin Seed Jumbles by Ric Orlando

Here is Super food in a delicious treat with no synthesized junk that is in most super foods.

Fancy over the top desserts are fun, but I for one would rather just have a nice nutty
chocolate blast to shift my palate and then embark on the rest best part of the night.
Heavy desserts may be fun, but they can certainly bog you down, especially after a
rich dinner.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee with this healthy and super delish after dinner treat!
Add a glass of Pedro Ximenez sherry and all will be well in your world.

Makes a lot, 15-20

1 lb best quality bittersweet chocolate  68-73%

2/3 cup pumpkin seeds

1/2 cup pine nuts

Sea salt to taste

One lime

Line a baking pan with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350.

Separately roast the pine nuts about 4 minutes and the pine nuts and 6 minutes
for or until they are just lightly golden. DO NOT OVER ROAST THEM or they will be bitter.

Allow to cool.

Melt the chocolate over a double boiler until smooth and shiny.

Fold most of the pumpkin seeds and pine nuts into the chocolate reserving about
a half cup combined for topping.

Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.

Drop heaping spoons of the melty mix onto the parchment paper not too close together.

Sprinkle with the remaining seeds and nuts.

Sprinkle the whole think lightly with coarse sea salt and use a microplane to finely
grate the lime zest over the whole thing too.

Put in the fridge for 15-20 minutes or rest in a cool place (porch?) until set.

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