Quick and easy no bake muesli bars

Quick and easy no bake muesli bars

These are super quick and easy to make and a great way to use up odds and ends in your pantry.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cups of rolled oats

• 1.5 cups of a combo of nuts, seeds, coconut

• 0.5 cups dried fruit, choc chips

• 1 cup of peanut butter

• ½ cup of honey or maple syrup or a combo

• 1 tbsp butter or coconut oil

• 1 tsp of vanilla extract

Optional: Cinnamon, mixed spice, orange zest, lemon zest

For decoration: Chocolate chips to sprinkle over the top or melted chocolate

How to make:

1. Whizz the oats in a food processor with any of the larger ingredients e.g. big nuts, dates.

2. Add the rest of the nuts, seeds, coconut, dried fruit, choc chips and do a very quick 1-2 second whizz just to combine but not chop up too much.

3. Add the peanut butter, butter or coconut oil and honey/maple syrup to a pan over a low heat and melt together but avoid letting it boil or get too hot. Allow to cool slightly then add to the food processor and pulse a few times to combine.

4. Press firmly into a lined baking tray and chill in the fridge for a few hours. They can go a bit crumbly if you don’t press the mixture down firmly enough so use your hand, the bottom of a jam jar or similar to push the mixture down.

5. Cut into slices and there you have it! Best kept in the fridge.

Notes:

The butter/coconut oil is just to help it set as it goes hard when chilled, you can absolutely leave it out, it will just be a little more crumbly.

You can reduce the nuts/seeds/coconut to 1.25 cups and increase the dried fruit to 0.75 if you prefer.