Healthy Nut Bars

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 15
• 1 cup puffed rice cereal or 1 cup rolled oats
• 1/2 cup sesame seeds
• 1/2 cup shredded coconut or 1/2 cup flaked coconut, toasted
• 1/2 cup toasted hazelnuts
• 1/2 cup dried apricot, diced
• 1/2 cup dried figs or 1/2 cup dates, diced
• 1/2 cup slivered almonds, toasted
• 1/2 cup pepitas, toasted
• 1/3-1/2 cup lsa (sunflower seed, almonds and ground linseed mixture)
• 1 cup golden syrup
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1/2 cup tahini (optional)
• 200 g 80% couverture dark chocolate, grated into smaller pieces
• 400 g 80% couverture dark chocolate

Recipe

• 1 lightly warm all the ingredients.
• 2 mix all other ingredients together in a bowl except the honey, golden syrup, tahini and the lsa.
• 3 add the honey, syrup, tahini and mix well together.
• 4 add 1/3 cup of the lsa and as much more to 1/2 cup as required to bind the mixture together then spread onto a tray lined with baking paper.
• 5 spread evenly and allow to set (20 mins in the fridge should do it). warming the honey/golden syrup a little enables them to combine more easily and the lsa helps to bind the mixture.
• 6 cut into bars and eat just as they are or coat in chocolate.
• 7 chocolate dip: melt 400g chocolate in a bowl over a water bath until the temperature of the chocolate mass is 43c, remove from water bath & fold in the 200g grated chocolate which should lower temp to 35c as it melts. the chocolate is now tempered and ready to use.(there is a 2-3 degree c window of variation working with chocolate.).
• 8 ***if your palate is more savoury try 3/4 cup tahini & ¾ cup of honey & omit the golden syrup.