Homemade Granola Bars Recipe
This homemade granola bars recipe is packed with super foods – nuts, seeds and dried fruits. A great and easy vegan breakfast and snack bars that is ready in 40 minutes.
Equipment
- mixing bowls and spatula
- 11x7-inch baking pan
- Parchment / Baking paper
- Oven
Ingredients
- 2 cups nuts (I used 1 cup almonds, ½ cup cashews & ½ cup walnuts)
- ¼ cup whole or rolled oats
- ¼ cup unsweetened desiccated coconut or coconut flakes
- ¼ cup dried cranberries or raisins
- ¼ cup seeds (2 tablespoons sunflower seeds, 2 tablespoons pumpkins)
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- 1 tablespoon flax seeds -- optional
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder
- ¼ teaspoons sea salt
- ⅓ cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 °F/ 160 °C and line an 11”x7” rectangle pan with parchment paper. Tip: Extend the parchment paper outside the pan for easier removal.
- In a mixing bowl, add the nuts, oats, dried fruits, seeds, cinnamon powder and salt.
- In another small bowl, combine maple syrup and vanilla extract. Mix until fully incorporated.
- Pour the liquid mixture into the nuts-seeds mixture and stir everything together until it is well combined and coated.
- Transfer the mixture into the prepared baking pan. Flatten mixture by using a spatula or by hand using a piece of parchment paper placed on top. Make sure that it is compact and with minimal spaces.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes and allow to cool completely in the pan for about an hour.
- Once cooled down, slice them into bars.
- Enjoy these bars as breakfast or snack.
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Notes
- You can use variety of nuts and in any proportion as long as it will be 2 cups.
- You can use whole pumpkin seeds or whole sunflower seeds.
- Make sure that the mixture is pressed down and compact into the pan so there will no spaces in between.
- You can also coarsely chop the nuts first so the bars won’t fall apart when slicing. Fill in the spaces with smaller bits to help hold the bars together.
- If your bars are still sticky an hour after cooling, you may need to bake them for a few minutes longer the following time to get the maple syrup to caramelize properly.
