How To Make Quinoa Crunch Snack Bars
Enjoy bites of these sweet crunch snack bars loaded with quinoa, oats, dates, and chia seeds bind together by sweet honey, for a rich and healthy snack!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 5medjool dates,pitted
- 1cupold fashioned whole rolled oats
- ¾cupquinoa,uncooked
- ½cupalmonds,coarsely chopped
- ½cuppepitas,pumpkin seeds
- 1tbspchia seeds
- ½cupalmond butter
- ⅓cuphoney
- 1tsppure vanilla extract
- ¼tspsalt
- 2ozsemi sweet chocolate,or bittersweet, melted
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F. Line an 8 or 9-inch square baking pan with parchment paper with enough overhang on the sides. Set aside.
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Pulse the dates in a food processor until they form a chunky paste. Transfer to a medium bowl.
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Add the oats, quinoa, almonds, pepitas, chia seeds, almond butter, honey, vanilla extract, and salt. Stir everything together until evenly combined.
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Transfer mixture to a prepared baking pan and press very firmly into an even layer.
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Bake for 20 to 22 minutes, or until lightly browned on the edges.
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Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely in the pan set on a wire rack for 1 hour, then transfer to the refrigerator to chill for 1 more hour.
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Remove the bars from the pan using the overhang on the sides and cut into bars. Drizzle with chocolate before or after cutting.
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Individually wrap each bar in plastic wrap or parchment, then serve and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Store at room temperature for 1 week or in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
Nutrition
- Calories: 277.21kcal
- Fat: 14.24g
- Saturated Fat: 2.15g
- Trans Fat: 0.01g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 6.93g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 4.07g
- Carbohydrates: 33.92g
- Fiber: 4.82g
- Sugar: 17.89g
- Protein: 8.06g
- Sodium: 51.53mg
- Calcium: 77.63mg
- Potassium: 345.10mg
- Iron: 2.21mg
- Vitamin A: 0.86µg
- Vitamin C: 0.17mg
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