Strawberry & Banana Breakfast Oat Bar

This healthy bar is top heavy with delicious berries and bottom heavy with banana and seeds. Super easy to make, this recipe will impress everyone and you’ll also look like a bit of pro in the kitchen.

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Ingredients

  • 6 tbsp sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing here
  • 3 tbsp brown sugar
  • 200g jumbo oats
  • 60g desiccated coconut
  • 40g seeds (pumpkin, sunflower, poppy, linseed, sesame, etc)
  • A pinch of salt
  • 200g strawberries, stalks removed and thinly sliced
  • 3 very ripe medium bananas, peeled and sliced
  • Pinch cinnamon

Recipe

  1. Step 1

    Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4 and grease 20 x 24cm baking tin with a little oil

  2. Step 2

    In a food processor or using a stick blender, blend the bananas and ? of the strawberries, the vanilla, the honey and the oil into a smoothish paste.

  3. Step 3

    In a mixing bowl, combine the oats, coconut, seeds and salt.

  4. Step 4

    Add the dry oat mix to the wet banana mix and combine well.

  5. Step 5

    Pour the mixture into the baking tin, level the surface, then top with the remaining strawberries, sprinkle with a tiny bit more honey and bake for about 25 minutes until it’s a nice golden brown and firm to the touch

  6. Step 6

    Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then cut into squares. Cool further on a wire rack before eating.