Homemade is always better, and if we talk about homemade energy bars much more. For sample, you just have to take a look at the ingredients list of the supermarket bars, composed of large doses of sugars and additives.
To make our bars, we have used as a base oat flakes, nuts and dehydrated fruits. We have only added a tablespoon of honey, but if you like them sweeter you can add a little more, although keep in mind that dried fruit is already quite sweet. To give it more flavor, we have added orange zest and vanilla paste.
You can vary the nuts and use others to your liking. Dried fruits can also be replaced by others such as dates or dried apricots.
These bars do not need to be cooked, so just need to grind very well the ingredients to form a paste that we can later cut into more or less large portions, depending on the use that we are going to give them.
To make these bars, we will need to have a kitchen robot that allows us to grind the ingredients well.
To keep them, it is best keep them in the fridge in an airtight container with baking paper between the layers so they don’t stick. If you have any leftovers or want to make more to have them on hand at any time, take them to the freezer and remember to take them out a couple of hours before enjoying them.
recipe information
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- Preparation time: 15 minutes
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- total time: 15 minutes
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- rations: 24 bars
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- Category: snack
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- type of cuisine: international
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- Calories per serving (kcal):98
Ingredients for homemade energy bars
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- 200 g of natural mixed nuts (cashews, walnuts and pistachios)
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- 150 g dried blueberries
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- 50 g unsweetened dehydrated coconut
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- 1 orange
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- 1 tablespoon honey
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- ½ teaspoon salt flakes
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- 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
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- 150 g oat flakes
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- Oil (to grease the mold)
Necessary utensils
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- Kitchen robot
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- 20 x 30 cm rectangular mold
How to make homemade energy bars
We start by taking 200 g of assorted nuts to a food processor. In our recipe we have used a mixture of cashews, walnuts and pistachios.
We crush the nuts for a couple of minutes at maximum power, until they are very well ground. We take them to a bowl and reserve them.
On the other hand, we are going to crush 150 g of dehydrated blueberries along with 50 g of unsweetened dehydrated coconut. As we did with the nuts, we will also crush these ingredients until we create a paste with them.
Add to the dehydrated fruit the zest of 1 orange, 1 tablespoon of honey, ½ teaspoon of flake salt and 1 teaspoon of vanilla paste.
Add the crushed nuts to the robot with the dehydrated fruit and add 150 g of oat flakes.
We work the dough again with the help of the robot until we form a moldable dough. The dough has to be compact and somewhat sticky to be able to be molded, so if it still does not have this texture, we will continue working the dough until we achieve the necessary texture.
Brush a rectangular mold of about 20 x 30 cm with a little oil, or cover it with parchment paper, and pour out the dough for the bars. Flatten the dough until it is the same thickness over the entire surface of the mold. Next, we cut the bars into 24 portions using a sharp knife and put the mold with the bars in the fridge for at least 1 hour before unmolding them.
After 1 hour, the bars will be ready to remove from the mould. We help ourselves with a knife so that they come out perfect.
The best thing to keep them is to put baking paper between them so they don’t stick and store them in the fridge until we’re going to eat them. We can also freeze them to have them ready whenever we need them.
Easy preparation summary
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- We take the nuts to the robot
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- Crush the nuts and reserve
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- We crush the dehydrated fruits
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- Add the orange zest, honey, salt and vanilla paste
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- Add the nuts and oat flakes
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- We work the dough in the robot until it is moldable
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- We take the dough to the mold, cut the portions and take it to the fridge
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- Unmold the bars
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- We keep energy bars in the fridge or freezer
