EP 28: Breakfast Bars
Breakfast Bars
Serves: 8
Difficulty: Easy
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 45 min plus cooling time
1 tbs oil plus more for pan
1 ¼ cups rolled oats
½ cup dried cherries, cranberries or raisins
¼ cup ground flax meal
¼ cup pecans, coarsely chopped
2 tbs pistachios, coarsely chopped
¼ tsp salt
½ cup agave nectar or maple syrup
¼ cup peanut butter
½ tsp vanilla
Preheat oven to 325; grease an 8×8 baking dish. Line the bottom and two sides with parchment paper, leaving 2 inch overhang on each side. Brush the paper with more oil.
In a bowl, combine oats, dried fruit, flax seeds, pecans, pistachios and salt; set aside. In a small saucepan, combine agave nectar, peanut butter, oil and vanilla; heat until melted. Add to dry ingredients and stir to combine. Transfer mixture to prepared pan; smooth top. Bake until golden and edges pull away from sides of pan, about 20-25 minutes. Cool completely in pan. On a cutting board, cut into 8 pieces using a serrated knife.
Notes
Store airtight a room temperature up to one week. Store up to three months individually wrapped in the freezer.
These look great! Nice job.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Hey!
Tried these, used raisins pecans and sunflower seeds and maple syrup instead of agave. I wouldn’t recommend using the microwave to heat the wet ingredients though, the final product was very dry and crumbly, more like a delicious granola! I ate it all up anyway. Very yummy. Good raisin to everything else ratio:)
May 18th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I have a few ingredients I think would go really well . . . instead of pistachios, which I don’t have I am going to put in some sunflower seeds, and I’ll half the pecans and put in the other half walnuts instead. I am also going to try adding a tablespoon of hemp hearts, and see if almond butter works as well as peanut butter. This looks great and my husband and I are travelling a long way in the car tomorrow, so this will be a welcome addition to the goodies we’ve packed for the jounrey. Thanks for the recipe!!
August 10th, 2008 at 12:15 am
I’m looking for a reciepe from ages ago I read in a veggie cookbook. They were called Breakfast Bars A Go Go.
I’ve forgotten how to make them, of course, I can’t remember the author of the book either, except she was some kind of ex-model or ex-actress of some sort I had never heard of.
I’m going to use almond butter, walnuts and pecans and maybe a little shredded coconut. Thanks.
March 12th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I’ve made these twice now– it’s a great versatile recipe! I switched it up the second time and added some almonds, cashews, and dried blueberries. I meant to put in shredded coconut but I forgot. They’re delicious, I love how you can just throw anything you have in them and they always turn out great! Thanks, Jess!
August 4th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Been eyeing this recipe for agess and today i finally got around to making them- and im soo happy I did! i used a mix of cherries and raisans, hazelnut instead of pistachios and almond rather than peanut butter! they’re baking in the kitchen right now and the smell that is wafting from the oven is simply irresistable
thank u soo much for this recipe Jess!
kind regards from a vegan studying in the UK
November 27th, 2009 at 2:55 pm