No-bake granola bars
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups oats
- 2 tbsp sunflower seeds
- 2 tbsp chopped almonds
- 3 tbsp home-made butter*
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- handful of chocolate chips [optional]
Instructions
- Line a baking tin with parchment paper, and keep aside.
- In a saucepan, roast the oats on low heat, for about 10 minutes, stirring often.
- Add the roasted oats, sunflower seeds and almonds in a large bowl and mix well. Keep aside.
- In a microwave safe bowl, add butter, honey and sugar.
- Heat the mixture for 1 minute, and stir well. If not combined well, heat for another 30 seconds.
- Add this to the oats mixture.
- add in the vanilla essence as well.
- Using your hands, mix everything well together
- Add in the chocolate chips, and mix well
- Put this mixture in the baking tin, and press it down well using the back of a glass.
- Refrigerate for at least 4 hours, or preferably overnight, before cutting them into bars
Notes
*if you do not have home-made butter, just use regular, store-bought butter