“Two Moms in the Raw”- Style Granola Bar

~ tracyshar

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I’ve been eating these granola bars for several years, and have always loved them. Granola bars seemed to me a really good way to get going with raw foods — my feeling is if I can prep a bunch of grab and go style things, it won’t be that difficult to maintain.

So, the first thing I did was buy the Two Moms in the Raw Cookbook. Sadly, I quickly learned that they don’t give that recipe in their cookbook!!!!

Heartbroken, I began my search again.

It led me to this recipe on The Fitchen: http://thefitchen.com/2013/09/19/the-best-granola-bars-ever/.

Now, this was cool, but I was confused by the whole, use of an oven in a raw diet thing. Also, I’m itching to use my dehydrator. So I used their recipe with some slight tweaks.

Ingredients
  • 1 c. rolled oats (1/2 of the oats ground in food processor)
  • ¼ c. raw pepitas
  • ¼ c. raw cashew pieces
  • ¼ c. millet
  • 2 Tbsp. raw sunflower seeds
  • 2 Tbsp. oat groats
  • 5 dried Turkish apricots
  • 2 Tbsp. flax seeds
  • 2 Tbsp. Thompson seedless raisins
  • 2 Tbsp. dried currents
  • ⅓ c. maple syrup
  • 1 Tbsp. peanut butter
  • 1 Tbsp. raw honey
  • ½ Tbsp. coconut oil
Instructions
  1. Mix all ingredients except apricots, Maple syrup, peanut butter, coconut oil, and raw honey in a large bowl.
  2. Food process apricots until they ball up, and mix into dry ingredients.
  3. Mix maple syrup, peanut butter, coconut oil, chopped apricots, and honey in a bowl, whisk well to combine.
  4. Add everything together.
  5. Dump mixture on a large piece of parchment paper and form into a flat rectangle that will fit in your dehydrator.
  6. Dehydrate for 3 1/2 hours on 115 F.
  7. Cut into bars.

These are, seriously yummy, and taste almost identical to the Moms in the Raw bars. Gotta give it to the Fitchen, they really found the right mix of ingredients for these bars. YUM!! Well done, Fitchen. And, one step closer to eating fully raw.

 

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