{"id":708,"date":"2013-04-06T07:32:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2017-02-18T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T22:44:02","slug":"tarahumara-pinole-energy-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/tarahumara-pinole-energy-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarahumara Pinole Energy Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pinol-e-what?!<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the book Born to Run<\/a><\/em>, Christopher McDougall talks about the legendary Tarahumara tribe in Mexico who regularly run 50 miles or more per day. How can they accomplish such a feat? Their diet certainly plays an important role, and a secret magical food<\/em> called “pinole” is one of their staples. Pinole is so simple: it’s basically toasted cornmeal mixed with natural sugar, spices, and water. It can be eaten as a porridge, or baked into a cake so that you can take it with you while running.<\/p>\n

Now… I don’t run 50 miles a day (ha!) but once I started experimenting with this pinole nonsense, I realized why the Tarahumara rely on it so much: it’s the perfect source of energy. When I eat a pinole energy bar before running, I have more endurance, my blood sugar seems to stay more stable, and I recover quicker. These cakes are the most natural and easily digestible source of energy that I’ve ever eaten while working out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The problem is… there are virtually no good recipes for pinole. The ones online aren’t very tasty or just don’t work well. I have spent a long time<\/em> coming up with the right ingredients and the right quantities. The recipe I’m about to share with you is so delicious and it holds together well enough to throw in your pocket for the second half of those 50 mile runs. \ud83d\ude42 I’m confident it’s one of the best pinole recipes you’ll find.<\/p>\n

But what about taste? Amazing. But almost impossible to describe. It’s not quite cornbread… not quite a cookie… not quite an energy bar… but a delicious combination of all three. Super magical powers aside, these energy bars have become one of my all-time favorite foods and I eat them almost every day.<\/p>\n

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Makes 3 energy “cakes”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ingredients:<\/h4>\n
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