BLUEBERRY BANANA GRANOLA BAR
Healthy Blueberry Banana Granola bar is our new obsession at home. These soft and chewy homemade granola bars are gluten-free, vegan and refined sugar-free.
Servings 8 bars
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1.5 cups Rolled Oats
- ½ tspn baking powder
- 100 grams Dry Blueberries
- A pinch of salt
Wet Ingredients
- 2 medium Ripe Bananas
- ¼ Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1 tbsp honey or Maple Syrup ( Optional)
- 1.5 tbsp Coconut Oil
- 1 tbsp Flax Seed Meal
- 2 tbsp warm water
- 1 tspn Pure Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Pre-Heat Oven @180 degree Celcius
- Mash ripe bananas with the back of a spoon until puree consistency. You will get roughly 1 cups of mashed banana.
- In a bowl take flax meal. Add warm water, mix well. Keep aside. The mixture will thicken while preparing other ingredients.
- Toast oats in the oven(@180 C) or in a skillet till light golden brown in colour.
- Once oat is cooled down, put in a food processor. Pulse 1-2 times. ( We don't need fine powder here. Just make sure few grains of oat is broken)
- In a big mixing bowl add all the ingredients mentioned under wet ingredients. Mix everything well.
- In another bowl add all the dry ingredients and stir well.
- Add dry mixture to the wet mixture. Mix everything until well incorporated.
- Line a 8-inch square tin with parchment paper.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared tin. With the back of the spatula spread the mixture evenly and press into the pan.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes at 180 Celcius.
- Once baked, remove from the pan and place on a wired rack.
- When it is still little warm to touch, use a sharp knife and cut into bars/squares.
- Once the bars have completely cooled down, place in an airtight container.