Muesli (or Granola) Bars & Muesli

I would suggest buying them is going to cost you a lot of money, for something so easy to make at home and KNOWING what goes in them, especially when there are little children in the house, is very important.

I make a muesli mix for Strathmore Lodge guests and add and subtract ingredients depending on seasonal availability or whether I have nuts, dehydrated apples or feijoas or I resort to buying some cranberry raisins!

Lately, I just add whatever I can find. Recently, I made a snack for us to take to the National Fieldays.

Muesli Bars

• 4 cups of still crunchy and fresh cereal (Special K – actually)
• 1 cup of a mixture of coconut threads, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, cranberry raisins and sesame seeds, and home grown walnuts
• Place in a large bowl and add the following mix:
• 100gm butter
• ¼ cup manuka honey (or a nice fruity honey)
• ½ cup brown sugar

Heat in a small pot until it reaches soft ball stage (this is where having a thermometer really takes out the pain of cooking with sugar). Then pour it all over the dry mix, stir well and pour into a brownie pan at about 2 cm thick depth.

Muesli

Adapted from Peter Gordon’s recipe: Arrange in a big bowl and pour heated liquid honey, oil, and mix all well. Then spread on 2 (lined with baking paper), baking trays for about 20 minutes at 150 degree C heat.

• 500gm large oats 
• 50gm pumpkin seeds 
• 50gm sunflower seeds 
• 4 tbpns sesame seeds 
• 50gm long threaded coconut 
• 150gm manuka honey – heat with the oil until runny
• 100ml mild vegetable oil like sunflower