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Friday, March 21, 2014

Health Bar Recipe Healthy Flapjacks Recipe

Lets get healthy and enjoy a "home baked treat" that is so very good for you!

My delicious Health Bar Recipe snack is also known as Flapjacks!

This is a very healthy recipe that I like to bake often, not only for its wonderful taste but for the high Iron and B Vitamin content that will give you a real energy boost, great for busy people OR hard working busy mums/food blogger .. ..like me !! :-) .

I do not use any sugar in this recipe as I only use molasses and fruit to sweeten these health bars and the result is the perfect sweetness that is good for you.

The textures of crunchiness and chewiness and the lovely flavour of the molasses is just adorable and I know you will love them too as the taste is outstanding.

Jeenas health bars is a healthy treat to snack on that will leave you feeling very satisfied this is because they are very nutritious, my healthbar recipe are so tasty that you will want to eat up the lot in one go....

So lets now enter Jeenas Kitchen and lets get baking- enjoy !

Ingredients for Jeenas flapjack (health bar) recipe:

3 Large Tbsp Molasses
2 Level Tbsp Low Fat Margarine
1 Cup Oats
Pinch Sultanas
Pinch Raisins
2 Handfuls Pumpkin Seeds
8 Dates (stones removed and chopped)

Getting Started on Jeenas Health Bar Recipe..

In a bowl mix your margarine and molasses smooth.

Add your oats, pumpkin seeds, raisins, sultanas and dates and mix thoroughly so all ingredients are coated well.

Grease a baking tray and pour all your health bar mixture into the middle of the baking tray.

With two spoons flatten roughly into a flat square shape.

Now use a biscuit cutter or flat knife to straighten all the sides out and flatten the top evenly.

Using your flat cutter divide the flapjack mixture into 5 strips, move the cutter from side to side and make the top even.

Now use the same method to cut one line straight through your 5 health bars.

Place in a pre -heated oven at 180C for 20-25 minutes depending on the heat of your oven. Keep checking on them. Do remember that these are health bars made with molasses so they will be dark in colour.

When they are cooked leave the health bars to cool on the tray. You do this to keep the shape of the flapjack, if you remove them from the tray whilst hot they will crumble.

Enjoy your delicious flapjack health bars.

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Check out Jeenas other easy homemade: Chocolate health bar recipe

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I hope you enjoyed Jeenas "Health Bar Recipe".

Healthy baking can be good for you as you can see from this tasty healthy bar recipe and you do not have to buy them from the shops to enjoy the wonderful home cooked taste.

Have you ever made home made health bars ? How would you like to bake yours ?

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Date and Apricot Health Bars Recipe

This recipe is so very simple to bake.

There is a reason that I love the combination of dried apricots and dates together. When they cook they turn into natures very own soft toffee - in texture and in taste. They are healthy and are naturally very sweet.

Unsulphured apricots are the only apricots I use in most recipes. They are brown in colour like the dates rather than the bright orange colour of the dried apricots that contain preservatives. The flavour of an unsulphured apricot is very different in taste to the standard dried apricots.

My date and apricot bars are not only really tasty to eat but they are so healthy to eat.

I only use one ounce of brown sugar in this recipe, I use date syrup for extra sweetness and that combined with the cooked dates and apricots make into a very special sweet treat to eat.

Dates and apricots contain lots of vitamins and minerals such as Vitamin A, C, E and Iron.

I use rice flour in this recipe so it is a gluten free date bar recipe as well as being egg freedairy free it is a vegan date bar recipe.

You do not have to feel guilty after eating one of my date and apricot bars! and

Ingredients for Date and Apricot Bars
4oz Dates
4oz Dried apricots (unsulphured)
100ml Soya milk
4 Tbsp Rapeseed oil or other flavourless vegetable oil
1oz Light brown Muscovado sugar
3oz Rice flour
1/2 tsp Vanilla essence
1/2 tsp Baking powder
2 Large Tbsp Date syrup

How to make Chef Jeenas Date and Apricot Health Bars

Place soya milk, rice flour, oil, vanilla, baking powder and sugar into a bowl and mix very well.

Once it has mixed into a creamy batter add the dates, apricots and date syrup.

Mix very well.

Pour into a bowl and cover with plastic wrap.

Place into a fridge for 30 minutes.

Grease and flour a baking tray.

Pour the mixture onto the tray and spread out evenly.

Place into a hot oven at 200C for 7-10 minutes.

You can cook this mixture as cookies if desired.

Once cooked leave to stand for a few minutes then remover from the tray onto a cooling rack. If it it too big to remover slice into four then remove each piece to the rack.

If you made cookies remove them instantly.

Once the date and apricots health bars are fully cool slice into squares and enjoy.