This recipe for homemade granola bars uses much less refined sugar than many. The recipe is tweaked a little bit from a recipe on the PassionateGreen recipe blog. PassionateGreen tweaked it from a Taste of Home recipe.
Ingredients:
- ½ cup peanut butter (a peanut butter that has a little oil added to it works better than a peanut butter that is simply peanuts and salt).
- 1/3 cup agave syrup (could also use honey)
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp canola oil
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 ½ cups slow cooking oats
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 1/3 cup chocolate chips
- 1/3 cup raisins
Time Estimates
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Spray a 13x9 pan with cooking spray
- Mix all ingredients together in a bowl
- Press ingredients down flat into prepared pan
- Cook in oven for 12 -15 minutes until edges begin to brown
- Let cool so it firms up; if you try to cut while still warm, it will crumble
Makes one pan
*As always, using organic ingredients turn this into an organic recipe. If you can’t afford everything organic, your best option would be to buy the oats or peanut butter in their organic form since they make up a bulk of the recipe. Organic oats usually don’t cost much more than conventional ones, especially if you can get them from a bulk bin.
from http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/blogs/homemade-peanut-butter-granola-bars
