Bars of dried fruits and nuts with your own hands

The composition of the bars is healthy and natural. This wonderful dessert will help everyone in obtaining the necessary vitamins, minerals and trace elements, will give strength and energy for work and outdoor activities. In addition, it is simply delicious, without chemical additives and can become a substitute for store-bought sweets. Cooking bars is quite simple.

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Dried fruit and nut bars with your own hands

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Walnuts

Peanuts

Sunflower seeds

Dried apricots

110

Prunes

100

Raisins

100

Dried cherry

100

Cranberries (50g - dried /it's sweet/ and 50g - frozen /sour/)

100

Dates

200

Lemons

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 10 % 6 g

Fats 17 % 10 g

Carbohydrates 73 % 43 g

280 kcal

GI: 51 / 16 / 33

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 5 h

Step 1:
Necessary products. Frozen cranberries behind the scenes - in the freezer. I was supposed to use only dried, but it turned out to be very sweet, so fresh was also needed in the process.
Step 2:
Soak all dried fruits in hot water for 8 minutes. Then rinse well under running water in a colander, let the water drain and dry on a cotton towel. Sort the raisins, remove the tails.
Step 3:
Chop the nuts in a blender, but to leave large pieces or chop with a knife. Leave the seeds intact. Pre-wash the nuts and seeds, too, dry them on a towel and additionally dry them in a dry frying pan.
Step 4:
Pour nuts and seeds into a deep bowl, mix.
Step 5:
Go to the same place on the meat grinder to scroll dates, lemon, fresh cranberries and 1/3 of the raisins. Mix well.
Step 6:
Cut all other dried fruits into small pieces with a knife, leaving larger ones. Mix well after each addition of slicing.
Step 7:
Thinly lubricate two large sheets of parchment with refined sunflower oil. Put the fruit - nut mixture on one sheet, leveling with a spoon. Cover with a second sheet of parchment and gently roll out with a rolling pin into an even layer, about 1 cm thick. Remove the parchment and trim the edges. I got a layer of 26 x 31 cm. / Even if the parchment is of high quality, lubricate it necessarily. This will give the bar a gloss and it will easily be removed from the paper/.
Step 8:
Move the parchment onto a baking sheet and put it in the preheated oven t 180&039; for 10 minutes, then set the temperature to 60&039;. Take out the baking sheet, carefully cut the layer into bars, return to the oven for 2 hours. Then carefully turn the bars over and dry them for about 2 more hours. You can leave it on a baking sheet until it dries well for another day in the room. Then remove, pack in parchment. Store in a cool place. It turned out 24 bars.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

So that the oven has time to heat up to the desired temperature, turn it on in advance (10-20 minutes before cooking).

It is important to know that natural dried fruits look unsightly and dry, they need to be bought on the market. Soft, shiny and beautiful, it is not worth taking, since they are chemically treated or soaked in sugar syrup.

Nuts contain almost all the vitamins that are so necessary for health, as well as a lot of magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and iron.

Dried fruits are recommended by nutritionists for a healthy diet and wellness, for daily use, and practically have no contraindications. This is a very good substitute for sugar and sweet pastries. Eating dried fruits strengthens the immune system.

Recipes for dried fruit and nut bars can be changed according to your taste preferences, and prepared in the form of sweets. It should be remembered that it is also not worth eating a lot of them, since they have a fairly high calorie content.

In a beautiful, original packaging, it will be a pleasant gift for family and friends for any holiday!

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