Need to munch on something but don’t want to eat anything unhealthy, doesn’t homemade granola bar recipe sounds good. Apart from being shaped in form of bar granola as raw has many other health benefits too.
Hear me out when I say healthy granola bar recipe I mean that I will try to keep sugar, and calories as low as I can. Granola bar recipe is same as making healthy homemade muesli recipe you have to power to add or subtract ingredients which you don’t like or ingredients that doesn’t fit into your health diet.
Some of you might be thinking isn’t granola and muesli the same thing?
Well, yes & no. Sure they are very similar to each other in terms of health benefits, and ingredients but the key thing that separates them from each other is how they are made. While granola is baked and usually contain added sweeteners for example honey, sugar, and jaggery syrup. Muesli is opposite of granola it is made raw and only sweetness you get is from the dry fruits that you added.
Diet followers, sorry to say but granola tends to have higher amount of calories when compared to muesli.
Now lets get started with our granola bar recipe.
I will also state macro nutritional value for almost every ingredients.
Ingredients
- Oats – 3 cups (300 grams)
Nutritional value for oats per 100 grams serving
- Calories: 389
- Carbs: 67 grams
- Protein: 13 grams
- Fat: 6 grams
2. Almonds – 1 cup (100 to 150 grams)
Almonds is packed with various minerals and vitamins such as magnesium, iron, calcium, phosphorous, potassium and vitamin E.
Nutritional value for almonds per 100 grams serving
- Calories: 579
- protein: 21.15 g
- fat: 49.93 g
- carbohydrate: 21.55 g
- fiber: 12.50 g
- sugar: 4.35 g
3. Cashew nuts – 1/2 cup
Nutritional value for cashew nuts per 100 grams serving
- Calories: 553
- Carbs: 30 grams
- Protein: 18 grams
- Fat: 44 grams
4 . Peanuts – 1/2 cup (50 to 70 grams)
Nutritional value for peanuts per 100 gram serving
- calories – 567
- Protein – 25.80 grams
- Fat – 49.24 grams
- Carbohydrates – 16.13 grams
5. Deseeded Dates – 1 cup (100 to 150 grams)
Dates are also enriched with following minerals and vitamins such as potassium, magnesium, copper iron, and vitamins B6.
Nutritional value for deseeded dates per 100 gram serving
- Calories: 277
- Carbs: 75 grams
- Fiber: 7 grams
- Protein: 2 grams
6. Honey syrup – 1/2 cup
7. Salt – 1/4 tablespoon
As I mentioned above granola bar recipe gives you the power to add or remove ingredients that you want so if you want you can add berries of your liking such as cranberry, blueberry, etc.
I would recommend adding dried cranberries that will give it sweet flavour.
Recipe
- First of all chop almonds (1 cup), cashew nuts (1/2 cup), and peanuts(1/2 cup) into small pieces.
- Take a pan and add all the chopped almonds, cashew nuts and peanuts into the pan and roost them on medium flame for at-least 2 to 4 minutes.
- Take out all the roosted nuts into a good large sized bowl the particular reason for that is that we will be adding oats into them too.
- But before that add the oats (3 cups) into the pan and roost them on medium flame for at-least 2 to 4 minutes.
- Add the roosted oats into the same bowl as roosted nut, add salt and let them cool.
- Now put deseeded dates (1 cup) into a grinding jar, and grind it until it starts to look like a paste.
- Add deseeded dates paste into the same bowl, and pour honey syrup (1/2 cup).
- Now if you want you can add berries of your liking such as cranberry or blueberry. Make sure that berries that you add are dried.
- Now mix them all nicely if you have trouble mixing them with spoon, use your clean washed hand.
- Now take a rectangle or square container it will give them bar like shape but any flat container would do.
- Place butter paper also know as bakery paper, baking paper or grease-proof paper in the container.
- Pour the mixture in the container and spread it nicely, and evenly after spreading is done if you like you can add more berries.
- Now press the mixture into the container from back-side of the spoon.
- Refrigerate them for at-least hour or two.
- With the help of the butter paper remove the mixture from the container, and cut them in bar shape or any other shape that you like.
Tada!!! your granola bars are ready to eat.
Remember to store them in air tight container and keep them in refrigerator that will help them last long and good to be eaten for at-least 2 weeks.
Total nutritional value of granola bar
The total number of calories will be around 2900 calories excluding honey syrup, and this calories value is for all whole container that we made not just single bar.
- Protein – 97.5 grams.
- Carbohydrates – 281.4 grams.
- Fat – 156.5 grams.
- Fiber – 60 grams.
Let assume that you will cut the mixture into 8 pieces and the nutritional value for per granola bar will be
The total number of calories will be 362.5
- Protein – 12.18 grams.
- Carbohydrates – 35.17 grams
- Fat – 19.56
- Fiber – 7.5 grams.
So I think one granola bar will easily suffice your hunger. Just don’t eat all in one day it will be bad for your health. There are two more ways to make it even more tasty but do know they are not so healthy when compared to normal granola bar.
Jam – Just take two granola bars and spread jam on the one side and press them against each other making a granola bar sandwich and when you do this calories and other nutritional value will go up so that’s on you.
Chocolate – Just dip granola bar into melted chocolate and refrigerate for 30 to 40 minutes. If you think your granola bar is too bland I would recommend this method.
Some studies have also shown that proportioned food helps you in managing your over eating habit and help you lose weight and granola bar is proportioned as 1 bar counts as one serving so you don’t have to worry about over-eating.
So I think this granola bar recipe was simple, easy to make, and healthy too. what do you think about it let me know in the comment section.