My Favorite Granola Bars
My Favorite Granola Bars

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, my favorite granola bars. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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My Favorite Granola Bars is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. My Favorite Granola Bars is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have my favorite granola bars using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make My Favorite Granola Bars:
  1. Get 1 1/2 cups quick oats
  2. Prepare 1 cup crisp rice cereal
  3. Make ready 1/4 cup ground flaxseed
  4. Get 1/4 cup unsalted butter
  5. Prepare 1/4 cup honey
  6. Prepare 1/4 cup brown sugar
  7. Make ready pinch salt
  8. Prepare 1/4 cup pepitas (also known as pumpkin seeds)
  9. Get 1/4 cup almonds, roughly chopped (could also used sliced)
  10. Make ready 1/4 cup craisins (or raisins or other dried fruit)
  11. Get 1/4 cup shredded coconut (could also use coconut chips or a mix)

Why spend tons of money on packaged granola bars when you can make them on your own? Whether you use dried cherries, chocolate chips or other dried fruit in them, these granola bars are delicious and a ton of fun to prepare! This fantastic recipe for homemade granola bars is from one of my favorite recipe books, Healthy Snacks to Go. Healthy Snacks to Go is an ebook that you can buy instantly online here and read on your iPad/phone, or print out for reference.

Steps to make My Favorite Granola Bars:
  1. Optional first step : lay out the oats on a baking tray and bake at 350°F for 10 or so minutes, until everything is toasted and golden. Keep a close eye on them though, as the oats can burn quickly. Toasting the oats beforehand just adds a nice flavor to the finished bars, but this step isn't necessary.
  2. Line a 8x8"or a 9x9" pan with parchment paper, leaving an overhang on the sides to easily lift the finished bars out and set aside.
  3. Toss the oats, rice cereal and ground flaxseed together in a large bowl. Set aside.
  4. In a medium saucepan, start heating your butter over medium heat. Once it begins to melt, whisk in the brown sugar, honey and pinch of salt. This will form a kind of sticky caramel sauce, which will be the glue that holds the bars together. Let this come to simmer, then remove from heat.
  5. Pour the sauce over the ingredients in the bowl and use a rubber spatula to mix it all in. Make sure everything is fully saturated. Then fold in the rest of the ingredients. If using chocolate chips as one of your ingredients, barely fold them in after everything else is fully mixed, that way they won't melt from the initial heat of the sauce.
  6. Pour this mix into the prepared baking pan and use either a spatula or another pan or your hands to press down on the granola mixture very firmly. Whatever you're using to press down the granola, spray it first with non-stick cooking spray. Its important to really pack it down hard or you'll end up with crumbly granola chunks instead of bars.
  7. Place the pan into the fridge for at least 2 hours. Then, remove the granola from the pan using the parchment paper. Use a large, sharp knife to cut it into bars (or squares).
  8. That's it! For grab and go convenience, you can individually wrap these using parchment paper and string or you can wrap them in plastic wrap. Store them for up to 1 week. They're a bit hard and crunchy straight out of the fridge, so I'd recommend letting them sit out at room temperature for a few minutes before eating.

This fantastic recipe for homemade granola bars is from one of my favorite recipe books, Healthy Snacks to Go. Healthy Snacks to Go is an ebook that you can buy instantly online here and read on your iPad/phone, or print out for reference. Put the coconut oil and honey in a saucepan, and cook on low to medium heat until the coconut oil has melted. Remove from heat, and stir in the vanilla extract. Pour the wet ingredient mixture over the dry ingredients, and mix well.

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