Snack Time!

By blum099

Ingredients

• 2 cups raw walnuts
• Juice from 1 large lemon
• 1/2 teaspoon cardamom (use nutmeg or allspice if you don’t have cardamom)
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/4 cup agave nectar
• 2 Tablespoons yacon syrup (maple syrup can be substituted for yacon or the total of agave + yacon, or you can add 2 Tbsp of agave in place of the yacon)
• 2 large crisp apples (gala, pink lady, etc., but not red delicious or other softer apples)

Details

Servings 45

Preparation

Step 1

Take out a cookie cooling rack. Squeeze the lemon juice into a small cereal bowl, removing any seeds.
Rinse your apples using a vegetable scrubber to help get any dirt off. Dry them.
Using your mandolin slicer over a cutting board, slice the apple from the side of the apple (not crosswise—you do not want rings) until you get to the core but not to the seeds!. Flip the apple over to the other side and repeat. (The apple will still have some left on the other sides but slices cut from here will be too thin, and not have enough surface area to put the walnut spread on, so either make smaller apple wafers or just eat those parts separately.
Dip the slices in lemon juice on both sides, briefly. Gently shake off excess and place on cookie cooling rack so excess lemon juice can drip off.
Now place the walnuts in the food processor and grind down to almost a flour, blending for about 25 seconds.
Pour into a bowl and mix in cinnamon, cardamom, agave, and yacon until well stirred.
Spread onto apple slices and place on your party platter. Serve!