Many granola bars that you can buy in the store are too sweet or just don't taste good to me. That's why I decided to make granola bars myself. I'll tell you 5 great recipes.
It's half past ten in the morning - the stomach is rumbling. It should be quick and still taste good.
Not so easy, is it? The ideal mid-morning snack or a post-workout snack: the homemade muesli bar.
Balanced and healthy nutrition is the be-all and end-all for anyone who wants to live healthily.
Table of contents
When you reach for ready-made fitness bars at the supermarket, you never know what exactly is in them.
Muesli bars often contain ingredients that are anything but healthy. Above all, the sugar content is often alarmingly high.
Super delicious: Crunchy Quinoa Muesli with nuts and cinnamon!
What are the advantages of making granola bars yourself
- You know what's in the bar
- It's quick and easy
- You can choose the ingredients yourself
- You can produce granola bars in stock
I've seen fitness bars that contain up to 50 percent sweetener (sugar or sugar substitute). Anyone who buys granola bars in the supermarket should be aware that many of these bars are true calorie bombs.
If you want to snack healthy, you should grab your cooking apron :) Making granola bars yourself has many advantages: they taste really great and are not complicated.
Provided you have the right granola bar recipe. I tried several until I finally found good fitness bar recipes. From these I am fully on enthusiastic.
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Tip: Oatmeal is mega varied. You can prepare sweet and savory with it. I have this Oatmeal recipe book* bought from Amazon. It contains lots of ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Yummy :)
You can order these ingredients for the recipe on Amazon
- Fine leaf oatmeal*
- Organic honey*
- Dried fruit
- Cocoa powder*
Make muesli bars yourself - The basic recipe
Ingredients
- 100 g Hazelnuts, cashews, almonds, quinoa
- 60 g Butter
- 100 g Oatmeal
- 60 g Honey
- 100 g Dried fruits such as apricots, dates, cranberries, goji or cherries
- 1 Protein
Anleitung
- Roughly chop the nuts for your fitness bars and then roast them in a pan until golden brown. But please without fat. Now let the nuts cool down. Do the same with the oat flakes. While they are cooling down, chop the dried fruit.
- Stir the honey with the melted butter until smooth. Now add all the nuts and dried fruits. At the end, fold the beaten egg whites into the mixture.
- Place a sheet of baking paper on the tray. Now pour the mass of your homemade granola bars onto it. The mass should be about 2 cm high. Put it in the oven.
- Making your own granola bars works best at 150° convection. After 25 minutes, your fitness bars are lightly browned and firm. Now let the bars cool for another 10 minutes.
Notes
- 17.6 grams carbohydrates
- 3.6 gram protein
- 10.6 grams fat
Nährwerte
By the way, if your granola bars fall apart, you can just add another egg white.
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You can now modify this basic recipe to your liking. Try these ingredients:
Ingredients for homemade fitness bars:
1. nuts and seeds, which are good for themselves:
Hazelnuts, Cashews*almonds, peanuts, oat flakes, quinoa, Chia*, Flaxseed*psyllium seeds, coconut flakes, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds
2. dried fruit that fits super:
Strawberries, bananas, dates, apricots, cherries, raisins, raspberries, apple chips
3. to sweeten:
Honey, Agave syrup*brown sugar, maple syrup
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Muesli bar with chocolate
You can not do without chocolate? I understand you :) To make it healthy, you leave the fingers of whole milk chocolate and reach for dark chocolate.
What you need:
- 90 g oatmeal
- 30 g hazelnuts
- 1 TSP Cocoa powder*
- 50 g margarine
- 30 g brown cane sugar
- 50 g dark chocolate
Lightly toast the oats and chopped hazelnuts in a pan. When they have cooled down, you mix the Cocoa powder* to this. Meanwhile, melt the margarine in a pan. Mix the rolled oats, cocoa and margarine with the cane sugar and a few Chia seeds*. Done.
Put them in the oven. 15 minutes at 180° will crisp up your fitness bars. While the granola bars are cooling, you can melt the dark chocolate. I think it's especially nice if you use a spoon to draw thin stripes over the bars. Then again off in the fridge until the chocolate is solid. Meal :)
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Make vegan granola bar yourself
If you're in the mood for vegan, you can do without butter, honey and egg whites when preparing homemade fitness bars. The basis for vegan granola bars are almond paste, vegan margarine and coconut cream.
I have a great granola bar recipe for you, where you do not even need your oven :) Simply off in the fridge with the mass and ready.
You need this for 4 bars:
- 100 g dried cherries
- 20 g dried dates or apricots
- 60 g ground almonds*
- a little Cinnamon*
Soak the dried cherries and dates in warm water for 10 minutes. After draining, mix together the ground almonds, the Cinnamon* and the cherry-date mixture with a mixer. The mixture is now viscous. Pour the mixture into a cake tin that you have previously coated with oil. Place in the fridge for 30 minutes and your vegan "make your own muesli bars" recipe is ready.
You should eat these granola bars as quickly as possible. But that is no art. They taste super delicious :)
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Make your own granola bar for apricot fans
It gets a little more extensive with this recipe.
What you need for apricot almond coconut bar
- 50 g dried apricots
- 30 g butter
- 15 g brown sugar
- 50 g honey
- a little lemon juice
- 70 g cereal flakes
- 25 g almonds in sticks
- 15 g coconut flakes
- a little vanilla
Coarsely chop the dried apricots. Boil butter, sugar and honey. Now mix the lemon juice and all the remaining ingredients into the mass. And you are ready :)
Now spread this mixture on a baking tray with baking paper. The mass should be about 2 cm high. Bake the granola bars at 130° C for 20 minutes. This makes 5 bars.
Make granola bar yourself for more muscles
If you are in the mood for more muscles, you should reach for protein bars. Here is also a great and simple recipe for muscle building
What you need:
- 3 eggs
- 100 g oatmeal
- 350 Curd
- 30 g chopped hazelnuts
- dried cranberries
- 2 tablespoons honey
Mix 3 eggs with toasted oatmeal and cottage cheese. Now add the hazelnuts. For fruity sweetness provide the cranberries. Finally, add a little honey and you're done. 15 minutes at 150 ° convection in the oven. Meal :)
Our conclusion
Fun to know: Did you know that the predecessor of the granola bar originated in Great Britain? Flapjacks are oatmeal cookies made with rolled oats, butter and sugar.
Making granola bars yourself is not complicated. If you prepare them yourself, you have control over which ingredients go in and which do not.
Enjoy it!
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