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    Home » Recipes » Whole Foods Plant Based

    Date Syrup Recipe (easy + healthy sugar alternative)

    Published: Aug 19, 2021 · This post may contain affiliate links. · 3 Comments

    This easy date syrup recipe is the key to creating plant-based sweets rich in fiber, vitamins and minerals. This whole food plant-based sweetener is used in healthy baking and cooking. Drizzle over oatmeal, pancakes or waffles. Stir into hearty sauces, your morning coffee or tea as a replacement for table sugar, maple syrup and agave syrup (or other sweeteners). Lots of exciting uses for this WFPB staple!

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    • Why use dates instead of table sugar?
    • How to use date syrup?
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    💡 The recipe in a nutshell

    • Vegan (eggless and dairy free)
    • Whole Foods Plant Based
    • SOS Free
    • Healthy sugar alternative
    • Easy to make

    Why use dates instead of table sugar?

    Dates provide a good source of fiber, phytonutrients, and antioxidants. Date sugar (just ground up dates to powder) is a whole food, as are date and prune pastes. Other natural caloric sweeteners, such as honey, maple, agave, less processed cane sugars, and brown rice syrup don't appear to have much to offer nutritionally (source). According to Dr. Greger's research date sugar and scrap molasses are green-light sweeteners.

    How to use date syrup?

    Date syrup can is versatile and you can use it in many different ways. Consider drizzling it over a bowl of ice cream, your oatmeal, pancakes, waffles and so on. Use as a sweetener in baking, as well as cooking. Add it to your drinks, smoothies, sauces, or dressings! This avocado cheesecake recipe uses date syrup as a sweetener. When making granola you can substitute maple syrup, or brown sugar with date syrup. The possibilities are endless!

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    date syrup recipe

    Date Syrup Recipe | easy + healthy sugar alternative

    Jacqui
    This easy date syrup recipe is the key to creating plant-based sweets rich in fiber, vitamins and minerals. This whole food plant-based sweetener is used in healthy baking and cooking. Drizzle over oatmeal, pancakes or waffles. Stir into hearty sauces, your morning coffee or tea as a replacement for table sugar, maple syrup and agave syrup (or other sweeteners). Lots of exciting uses for this WFPB staple!
    5 from 3 votes
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    Prep Time 10 mins
    Soaking Time 1 hr
    Total Time 1 hr 10 mins
    Course Seasoning, Sweetener
    Cuisine Dairy-Free, Egg-Free, Gluten-Free, Healthy, Oil-Free, Sugar-Free, Vegan, Whole Food Plant Based
    Servings 1.5 cups

    Equipment

    • Food Processor, or Mixer

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 cup of medjool dates, pitted
    • 1 cup of hot water
    • ¼ lemon, pitted and peeled

    Instructions
     

    • In a bowl combine dates and hot water. Cover and let sit for 1 to 4 hours.
    • Combine dates, with water and lemon in a food processor. Blend until smooth.
    • Add to a glass or air tight container and store in fridge. The syrup will thicken more over night.

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    Notes

    If you need more, double or triple amount.
    If syrup is too thick for what you're using it for, add some water to thin out.
    Store syrup in fridge for up to 2-3 weeks. 
    Keyword Date Paste, Date Syrup, Date Syrup Recipe, vegan sugar, WFPB, Whole Foods Plant Based
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    1. Jan says

      May 22, 2022 at 10:51 pm

      5 stars
      so many good uses - yum!

      Reply
    2. Amy Roskelley says

      May 23, 2022 at 1:15 am

      5 stars
      Dates are the perfect sweetness for this syrup!

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    3. Andrea White says

      May 23, 2022 at 1:51 am

      5 stars
      love this as a sugar substitute! so so good!

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