Boris Mann’s Personal Blog

Jan 2010

Granola bars

Ingredients

2

cups shredded coconut

1 ½

cups rolled oats

1 ½

cups raisins

2

cups sunflower seeds

½

cup sesame seeds

¾

cup chopped peanuts

½

cup chopped cried fruit, like apricots

¼

cup mini chocolate or carob chips

½

teaspoon salt

1

cup honey

1

teaspoon vanilla

1

cup peanut butter

Preparation

Step 1

Mix all the dry ingredients well in a large bowl. Blend honey, peanut butter and vanilla until smooth. Add to dry ingredients. Mix with your hands (grease hands first).

Step 2

Press firmly into a greased 9 x 13" pan. Bake at 275 F until golden brown. Time varies but anywhere from 8-16 minutes. Cool on a rack. Cut when cool.

Healthy Granola Bars on Foodista

Ending up making these tonight. I've had oats and shredded coconut haunting the cupboards for a while, and have been thinking about an on-the-go eat in the morning sort of thing. The Orange Ginger Granola bars look good, too.

When I went to look for recipes, they're all very similar, and in fact don't seem to matter *what* you put in them.

I left out sunflower and sesame seeds, and did crystallized ginger and some candied lemon peel for the fruit. The chocolate chips were white chocolate chunks. No honey, but half a cup of turbinado sugar and dark molasses. I like the dark, slightly bitter flavour of molasses, so we'll so how that turns out.

The peanut butter was aged and sticky, so I added a bit of water to dissolve the sugar / molasses / peanut butter. No salt because I forgot about it.

Needed to bake much longer (~30 minutes) and a little hotter than listed. Didn't stick together as well as I had hoped, but did end up being tasty.