HOMEMADE CHEWY GRANOLA BARS

With just a few ingredients you will create healthy snack. These granola bars are made with organic oats, puffed rice, nuts and honey for a sweetness. Extra touch of dried fruit or chocolate chips will make your kids happy.

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Healthy granola bars for every day

Have you ever wonder how many calories and sugar and processed ingredients are in store bought granola bar? Don’t even ask! You would be surprised how much processed sugar, as molasses and glucose syrup they add in your cereal bar?

Sometimes, you are even better off taking a cookie as a snack, then some of the granola bars. This brings me to share this super-duper easy and healthy recipe for homemade granola bars. You can make these anytime, from the ingredients, what you probably already have at home.

Just a few ingredients (try to go with organic ingredients, to assure you of the healthiest option of granola bars) are oats, puffed rice, nuts (lot of nuts) and honey. There are endless varieties. You can add dried fruit like cranberries, blueberries, raspberries or apricots. You may go with chocolate chips to make your kids happy, even marshmallow pieces would be a great fun!

Ingredients

Nuts – raw unsalted nuts; cashews, walnuts, almonds, pistachios. Use any kind of nuts you have available.

Puffed rice – will add great crunch and little surprise in granola bar.

Oats – brings texture and healthy aspect of fibre.

Coconut oil – melted oil will moisturizers the hole mixture. It also gives neutral flavour to the bars.

Honey – will add little sweetness.

Salt – brings the sweetness.

Dark chocolate – chopped and melted.

This recipe makes up to 24 regular bars. The cost might vary, depending on what you will put in your granola bar, but these recipes, where we have a cashew, pistachios, chocolate and other nuts would be probably of $0.48 per bar.

How to make granola bars

Preheat your oven to 300°F / 150 C. Line with parchment paper  9 x 13-inch baking sheet.

In a large bowl, place the raw nuts, chopped chocolate, puffed rice, and salt, and mix to combine. Break up any large pieces of nuts or chocolate.

Add the coconut oil and the honey, and mix to combine well.

The mixture will be very thick and sticky.

Transfer the mixture onto the prepared baking sheet, and spread it into an even layer. Cover with another parchment paper, and press firmly. To make sure that you even, even surface, use another baking sheet to press onto the parchment paper.

Remove the top baking sheet and parchment paper, and place the pan in the centre of the preheated oven.

Bake until the mixture is lightly browned and bubbling, about 20 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and allow cooling for about 10 minutes.

Remove the bars, holding it, on parchment paper on flat surface and with large knife, or with dough scraper, slice the bars in your desired size.

Place the bars in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes, or in the freezer for about 5 minutes, until completely chilled.

Remove the bars from the refrigerator or freezer, and separate them. Drizzle with the optional melted dark chocolate and allow setting. Serve.

Storage

Store the bars in the airtight container, separated by parchment paper, at room temperature for up to 5–7 days. Refrigerate bars for up to 2 weeks or freezer for up to 3 months.

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