Rice nougat: an ideal snack

Monti wants to teach you one of the most striking ideas to succeed with children this Christmas: the puffed rice nougat with chocolate.

Snack is one of the most special moments in a child's life, where it is important to promote a good diet and correct habits. The rice nougat It is one of the best known sweets and an ideal alternative to pastries, much healthier for your snack. And you can also prepare it together.

Guaranteed fun!

If you want to make a homemade puffed rice you can use, for example, our Extra Montsià Rice, you cook it during 20 and 25 minutes (a bit overcooked), you strain it and spread it on a tray to take it to the oven (no more than 80º) for a couple of hours to dry well. Once dehydrated, skillet with a splash of oil and have fun watching the grains pop. 

Then, to make the nougat, you just have to stir the puffed rice with melted chocolate and a little butter in a bowl. Now you just have to pour the mixture into a mold and take it to the refrigerator to cool and solidify. Ready!

The best thing is that this sweet so funny, thanks to the combination of chocolate and rice, contains 7 of the 9 essential amino acids that the body needs and a high vitamin value. Puffed rice is ideal because it provides calcium and iron and you already know that it is a cereal that contains very little fat. Chocolate is usually one of the sweets that most attract little ones, and to give the mix a healthy touch, we recommend that you use a chocolate with a 70% cacao. 

Another good idea is to accompany this delicious homemade nougat with little milk or a piece of fruit to nish offering a healthy snack, complete and delicious.