Paleo
Paleo Granola Bars Recipe
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Ingredients
- 3 cups of assorted nuts and seeds
- (ideas: pepitas slivered almonds, whole almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds)
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- 2 cups unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 1/2 cup sunflower seed butter
- 1/2 cup raw honey
- 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon Sea Salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
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Instructions
- Pull out a 9x13in Pyrex dish and throw down a layer of parchment paper. Set aside.
- Pour assorted nuts and seeds into a large mixing bowl and combine.
- Take 1 cup of assorted nuts out of bowl and add to a cutting board. Use a sharp knife to chop nuts into smaller pieces.
- Take remaining 2 cups of assorted nuts and add to a food processor. Pulse until they're chopped much smaller, a variety in sizes of nut pieces will be good for look and feel of the bars.
- Add the nuts from the food processor and the cutting board back into the mixing bowl and stir to combine.
- Add the dried cranberries to the mixture and stir to combine.
- Add the shredded coconut to the bowl and again, stir to combine.
- In a small saucepan add coconut oil, sunflower seed butter, honey, vanilla, salt and cinnamon. (Maybe add a few more shakes of cinnamon while doing that too.) Cook, stirring over medium-low heat until it starts to bubble. Once bubbling, remove from heat.
- Pour the liquid mixture over the nut mixture in the mixing bowl and stir to combine. Make sure everything is mixed well.
- Pour the nuts-and-honey mixture into the previously set up dish on the parchment paper and either use a second sheet of parchment paper, slightly wet hands or a spoon to press firmly to pack the ingredients together. Make sure, then double check, that everything is nicely packed together.
- Let the mixture sit on the counter and settle for 2 hours.
- Cover and put in the freezer for 1 hour, or longer.
- Using parchment paper makes it super easy to now take the large sheet of granola out of the dish and transfer it onto a cutting board. Use a sharp knife to slice (not saw, otherwise they have a tendency to start to flake apart) the bars into whatever size pieces you'd like your granola bars to be. I did rectangular/squarish, palm size pieces.
For another Paleo Snack, try Key Lime Paleo Snack.