Homemade oatmeal bars

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make homemade oatmeal bars? Prepare the necessary products. Instead of granulated sugar, use honey and banana. By the way, a banana is also used instead of an egg - it holds the whole mass together when baking. If honey is not available, replace it with sugar. Lightly fry or dry the walnuts.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour the oat flakes into a deep bowl and fill with cold water, rinse if they were purchased by weight. Rinse thoroughly in several waters, removing the remaining husks. If you have purchased flakes in packs already cleaned, then you can skip this step.

3. Step 3:

   

   Chop the dried walnuts with your hands or in a chopper, add them to the flakes washed and squeezed out of the liquid. Pour the raisins into the same place - it does not need to be pre-steamed in boiling water so that there is no excess liquid in the mass.

4. Step 4:

   

   Peel a ripe banana, mash it into several pieces with your hands and put it on oat flakes. Add honey or granulated sugar. Gently press down with a fork and mix thoroughly so that the sweetness and banana are distributed throughout the mass.

6. Step 5:

   

   Cover a baking sheet or baking dish with parchment paper. Check with your palms on which side of the glossy paper to lay this side up so that the mass after baking is well separated from it. Lubricate the paper with sunflower or butter - this is a prerequisite, otherwise the bars will have to be cut together with the paper! Put the oatmeal mass on paper and form a rectangle.

7. Step 6:

   

   Choose the width and height of the rectangle as desired, it is best to make the height about 0.5 cm so that the mass is baked. Place in the oven at 150 C for 20-25 minutes until a ruddy, golden surface. Turn off the heating and remove the mold, cool the oatmeal mass so that the sweet ingredients inside it caramelize, otherwise when slicing, the mass will press and reach for the knife - it will not be possible to cut evenly.

8. Step 7:

   

   Cut the well-cooled oatmeal mass with a knife soaked in water into smooth long strips about 2 cm wide. If desired, they can be poured with melted white or milk, dark chocolate, sprinkled with powdered sugar. Such oatmeal bars can be taken with you to work, to school, on a picnic or on a trip.