Healthy Hearty Granola Bites

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 32
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 71.0
  • Total Fat: 2.6 g
  • Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
  • Sodium: 31.3 mg
  • Total Carbs: 10.3 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 1.6 g
  • Protein: 1.7 g

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Introduction

With lots of iron, calcium, potassium and vitamin E, these two-bite granola bars are a great on-the-go snack that happens to be vegan, nut free and without and extra refined sugar! With lots of iron, calcium, potassium and vitamin E, these two-bite granola bars are a great on-the-go snack that happens to be vegan, nut free and without and extra refined sugar!
Number of Servings: 32

Ingredients

    4.5 oz dried figs, chopped
    ⅓ cup water
    1 banana, mashed
    1 tbsp vanilla extract
    3 tbsp sunflower seed butter
    4 ½ cups prepared granola (homemade or storebought - I used Pumpkin Flax Plus® Granola), large clumps crushed
    ¼ cup Qi'a™ Superfood or hemp seeds
    1 tsp cinnamon
    ¼ tsp salt

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350F and line a 9x13” baking pan with greased foil.
Combine figs and water in a saucepan and cook, stirring occasionally, until very soft.
Remove from the heat, add the banana and puree with an immersion blender until smooth (or transfer to a food processor and puree).
Puree in the vanilla and sunflower seed butter, then add the granola, hemp seeds, cinnamon and salt, stirring to combine well. If using a food processor, transfer the fig-sunflower seed butter puree to a bowl before adding other ingredients.
Press into the baking pan firmly, smoothing until even. I used a second pan placed on top to help with even, firm pressing
Bake for 23-27 minutes, until firm and lightly golden along the edge.
Remove from the oven and immediately press down firmly again to compact.
Slice into squares once they are cool.

Serving Size: Makes one 9x13" pan, about 32 bites