Wake up to a tastier breakfast!
Posted: 02 August '10 by Niall
Our breakfast bars - moist, tasty.. and healthier!
I’m not a breakfast person – I’m just not hungry enough for a meal in the morning, and the thought of a “healthy” bowl of cereal which tastes like cardboard doesn’t do anything for my appetite either, it doesn’t matter how many nut-clusters it has. If I have anything at all it’ll be one of those oaty breakfast bars with a big cup of coffee.
I know, I know – they’re hardly a healthy option. I’ve had a look at the back of the wrapper and there’s a bewildering assortment of ingredients: preservatives, flavour-enhancers and fats among them. They’re expensive too..
In a recent chat with Jane from Harnett’s Oils I found out that rapeseed oil is also known as “canola oil” in the States, and at that moment a whole world of early-morning noshing opened before me.. I’d make my own healthy, tasty breakfast bars!
I always prefer to make my own food rather than relying on industrially processed stuff – at least I know what goes into what I make! In this case the health benefits of Jane’s rapeseed oil got me thinking about how I could make a slightly healthier breakfast bar. Now, you can play around with the amount of spice and the type of fruit you use, but this is a particularly good recipe right here – the bars are deliciously dense and moist with just the right amount of spice and fruit.
I actually look forward to breakfast these days!
You can see the photos here:
Ingredients
- 4 cups of rolled oats
- 1 1/2 cups of plain flour
- 1 cup of brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon of cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons of flax seed (optional)
- 1/2 tablespoon of salt
- 1 cup of Harnett’s rapeseed oil
- 4 eggs
- 75g x2 of dried sour cherries, roughly chopped
You should also have a tupperware box to hand to store the breakfast bars – you’ll have enough for at least a week of breakfasts!
Method
- Preheat your oven to 180°C
- Add all of your ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
- Stir the mixture until all of the ingredients have been mixed together and is moistened.
- Spray or rub some rapeseed oil into a large oven dish – ours is about 12×10 inches in size – which is at least an inch deep, and press the mixture into it.
- Bake for 25 minutes, or until the mixture has a golden brown crust on top.
- Remove the dish from the oven and allow the mixture to cool completely – this is important, otherwise the mixture will crumble when you try to cut it.
- Once the mixture has cooled you can cut the block into individual bars.
Enjoy!
Healthy, tasty breakfast bars
Tags: breakfast, harnetts oils, healthy eating, rapeseed oil, recipe
Categories: Recipes
