Blueberry Banana Oat Bars | running with spoons

You’d in no way ponder that these delicate and chewy blueberry banana oat bars are vegan, gluten-free, refined sugar-free, and made with none butter or oil! The best healthful breakfast or snack!

I really need to start out paying elevated consideration to Nationwide Meals Holidays.

Like, I’ve a zucchini recipe contained in the works appropriate now, nonetheless as a substitute of posting it yesterday (on Nationwide Zucchini Day), I scheduled it for this Sunday… which simply so occurs to be Nationwide Filet Mignon Day.

Granted, that’s not a “journey” I’d ever actually rejoice, nonetheless you get what I’m saying – it’d be good to line factors up on the very least as rapidly as. And perhaps the celebrities will align and it’ll occur eventually… nonetheless not correct this second. Due to correct this second, on Nationwide Rice Pudding Day, we’re celebrating the deliciousness that’s blueberries in these blueberry banana oat bars…

I do know, I do know – two bar recipes as soon as extra to as soon as extra. BUT! it’s summer season season and there’s a tonne of newest fruit out there in the marketplace that I wish to take full advantage of earlier than fall rolls spherical and I’m as soon as extra on apples and bananas. And by that I recommend that I acquired only a bit overzealous, invested in a 5 lb. case of newest blueberries, and wanted to make the most of them up earlier than they went dangerous.

So! as I are inclined to do with any sort of fruit I inevitably find yourself drowning in (frozen strawberriesanybody?), I made chia seed jam. And with that jam, I made some suuuuuuuuper tender blueberry bars you probably can actually sink your tooth into.

(I like giant bars and I can.not lie.)

So these bars are literally based mostly off my strawberry banana oat bars from ages beforehand. Solely this time with blueberries. And higher footage, since I’d wish to assume (be taught: hope) that I improved as a photographer over the sooner 2 years.

However they nonetheless have the an an identical tremendous easy banana oat base that’s actually made out of bananas and oats… with only a bit little little little bit of maple syrup for further sweetness. There’s no processed sugars, no butter, no oil, no flour… nothing nonetheless delicate, tender, chewy, healthful, flavourful goodness that furthermore occurs to be vegan and gluten-free. They’re great for breakfast (you may most likely even in the reduction of them into barely better bars do you have to need them to be only a bit further substantial) or as a snack at any time of the day.

Blissful consuming!

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Blueberry Banana Oat Bars

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• Creator: Amanda @ Working with Spoons

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  Full Time: 45 minutes

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  Yield: 12 bars 1x

For the blueberry chia jam:

For the bars:

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Directions

Make the jam:

1. Add the blueberries and maple syrup to a medium saucepan set over medium warmth. Warmth till the berries start to launch their liquid, about 5 – quarter-hour relying on whether or not or not or not or not they have been thawed first. Carry to a boil, stirring sometimes, till the berries start to within the discount of and thicken, about 5 -10 minutes. Use your spoon to interrupt them aside additional if desired.
2. Stir contained in the chia seeds, persevering with to arrange dinner for yet one more 5 minutes. Take away from warmth and permit the jam to loosen up. It’s going to proceed to thicken the longer it sits, which is why I normally wish to make it the evening earlier than I’m planning on making these bars.

Make the bars:

1. Preheat your oven to 375F (190C) and put collectively an 8×8 (20x20cm) baking dish by lining it with a sheet of aluminum foil or parchment paper, leaving a number of inches of overhang on the perimeters to permit for easy eradicating.
2. Place 1 cup of oats in a meals processor or blender, and course of till they resemble a superb flour. Swap the oat flour to a large mixing bowl, and add the remaining oats and baking powder, mixing efficiently.
3. Add the mashed bananas, maple syrup, and vanilla extract, and blend till all the objects is efficiently blended and a dough is long-established.
4. Swap 2/3 of the dough into your ready baking pan, utilizing a spatula to ensure that it’s unfold evenly. Spoon the chia jam over the bottom, and use a spatula or knife to unfold it evenly, guaranteeing to solely go inside 1/4 inch of the sting to forestall the jam from burning. Spoon remaining oat combination on prime, utilizing your spatula to unfold it spherical.
5. Bake for half-hour, till the centre has set and the bars start to current golden brown. Take away from the oven and allow them to sit back contained in the pan for about 10 minutes earlier than transferring them to a wire rack to loosen up fully. Use a star[knifetocutthemintoindividualbarsandstoretheminanairtightcontaineratroomtemperatureforupto5days[knifetocutthemintoindividualbarsandstoretheminanairtightcontaineratroomtemperatureforupto5days

Notes

* You may also use 3/4 cup store-bought jam inside the event you don’t have time to make your specific individual.

• Prep Time: quarter-hour
• Put collectively dinner Time: half-hour

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