Breakfast bars

  • Portion size: Makes about 18
  • Takes 15 minutes to make and 20-25 minutes in the oven
  • Difficulty: easy
Recipe by: Rachel Allen

With seeds, oats and apricots, Rachel Allen’s breakfast bar recipe is great for the kids’ lunchboxes – and your coffee break.

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Ingredients

  • 300g porridge oats
  • 100g pumpkin or sunflower seeds, or a mixture of the 2
  • 50g desiccated coconut
  • 50g plain flour
  • 200g butter
  • 200g golden syrup
  • 150g soft brown sugar
  • 150g dried apricots, chopped
  • 125g crunchy peanut butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
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Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 160°C/fan 140°C/gas 3. Line an 18cm x 28cm Swiss roll tin with non-stick baking paper, leaving a little hanging over the edges for easy removal later.
  2. Place the oats, seeds, coconut and flour in a large bowl and mix together. Melt the butter with the golden syrup in a saucepan, then mix in the sugar, chopped apricots, peanut butter and vanilla extract. Pour into the dry ingredients and mix until combined.
  3. Press into the tin and bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden and slightly firm. Cool in the tin, then lift out on the paper and cut into 18 bars.
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Nutrition

  • 323kcals Calories
  • 18.4g (8.8g saturated) Fat
  • 5.7g Protein
  • 25g (20.6g sugar) Carbs
  • 0.3g Salt

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