Nutritious and Easy Breakfast Granola Bars
A deliciously healthy vegan breakfast granola bar made with dried fruit and dark chocolate. It is nut-free and packed with immunity boosting benefits.
Equipment
- 1 Mixing Bowl
- 1 Spatula
- 1 Baking tray 7" by 7" square
- Parchment Paper
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1 cup organic old fashioned rolled oats
- 1/2 cup wheat germ if you're gluten-free, you can replace this with pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds and add a tbsp of peanut butter.
- 1/8 tsp Himalayan pink salt
- 1/8 tsp Ceylon cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
Wet Ingredients
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate (70%)
- handful blueberries or dried fruit/raisins
- 2 tbsps coconut flower syrup or a low-GI sweetener of your choice - you can add more if you would like it sweeter.
- 3/4 cup water room temperature. Depending on the brand of oats you use, you may require more water to create a chewy consistency. You want these bars to be moist, not dry. Add a tbsp at a time to reach that if needed.
The Drizzle
- 2 tbsps yoghurt plant-based or not. I love the vanilla flavoured Alpro yoghurt for this.
- 2 tbsps matcha
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C
- Mix all the dry ingredients together
- Mix all the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients (except water)
- Slowly add the water and combine everything together
- Cover the baking square with parchment paper
- Flatten the mixture on top of the parchment paper
- Bake this for 20 minutes in the oven at 200°C
- Once it is baked, let it cool down for 15-20 minutes on the kitchen counter over a heat mat
- Using a sharp knife or a bread knife, cut the square bar into smaller rectangular bars for serving. There should be about 12, if you make it about 1" wide.
- Store at room temperature in a closed container. If you're aiming to keep it longer you can store it in the fridge. It may harden so slightly warming it before serving after it has been kept in the fridge may be best.
- Finish with a drizzle of the vanilla matcha yoghurt before serving!
Nutrition
Calories: 90kcalCarbohydrates: 13.3gProtein: 2.8gFat: 3.1gSaturated Fat: 1.1gSodium: 13.9mgFiber: 2.4gSugar: 4.7g