Healthy Granola Bars recipe | Homemade Granola with oats, nuts and seeds recipe with step by step pictures and instructions. Learn how to make healthy and nutritious granola bar using oats, nuts and seeds. Granola is healthy breakfast or snacks prepared using oats, nuts, seeds sweetened with honey, brown sugar or jaggery. We can also use puffed rice, corn flakes and dried fruits. Granola is one of the best travel food carried during trekking, cycling and running. These granola bars are soft and chewy. We can make them crisp with little baking.
I want to try granola bar for long time in home and keep postponing. As soon as I signed up for after school snacks bites for Blogging Marathon I decided that I should use this opportunity to try granola. I referred many recipes from internet to get an idea. Most of them used honey and brown sugar. I don't want to heat honey so used jaggery and later added honey while binding. We can adjust of proportion of oats, nuts and seeds as per our preference. I loved this and my little one also liked it a lot. Planning to try more different combinations soon. Sending this to Srivalli's Kid's Delight event, guest hosted by Rafeeda themed on Snacks/Bites for Kids.
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Yields 10 pieces
5 minPrep Time
5 minCook Time
10 minTotal Time
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Ingredients
- Oats 1 cup
- Seeds 1/4 cup
- (Flax seeds, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds)
- Nuts 1/4 cup
- (Cashews, badam, pista, walnut)
- Jaggery 1/3 cup
- Honey 2 tbsp
- Butter 1 tbsp
- Water 3 tbsp
- Salt a pinch
- Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Instructions
- Dry roast oats till it slightly browns.
- Roast seeds for few seconds till it crackle. I used flax seeds and melon seeds.
- Then roast nuts in the same pan.
- In the same pan add butter, jaggery and water.
- Allow it to boil till jaggery melts and it bubbles up for 3-4 minutes.
- Switch off the flame and add the honey, salt and vanilla essence.
- Now add the roasted oats, seeds and nuts and mix.
- Line the baking tray with parchment paper or foil.
- Transfer the mixture to the tray.
- Level them and keep in fridge for 30 mins.
- After 30 minutes transfer to plate and cut them as bars.
- Store in air tight container and enjoy anytime.
Notes
You can use any type of seeds and nuts. Everything together should be 1.5 cups
These bars are soft and chewy. You can bake them for 10 minutes to make it crispier.
Don't over roast the ingredients as it will taste bitter.
How to make Granola Bars with step by step pictures
Dry roast oats till it slightly browns.
Roast seeds for few seconds till it crackle. I used flax seeds and melon seeds.
Then roast nuts in the same pan.
Transfer them to plate
In the same pan add butter, jaggery and water.
Allow it to boil till jaggery melts and it bubbles up for 3-4 minutes.
Switch off the flame and add the honey, salt and vanilla essence.
Now add the roasted oats, seeds and nuts and mix.
Line the baking tray with parchment paper or foil.
Transfer the mixture to the tray.
Level them and keep in fridge for 30 mins.
After 30 minutes transfer to plate and cut them as bars.
Store in air tight container and enjoy anytime.
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