No Bake Fox nut and Puffed Amaranth Granola Bars are healthy and delicious energy food with goodness of fox nuts, amaranth and almonds.Its a gluten free treat.
Ingredients
3 cup Pitted dates
1 cup roasted Almonds
¾ cup fox nuts
¾ cup peanut butter
3 tbsp cocoa powder
¾ cup puffed amaranth
Instructions
In a wok add some oil and salt.
Add foxnuts. Roast them on a medium heat till they become crunchy and acquire some colour.This should take less than five minutes. Keep tossing the nuts constantly. You don’t want them to burn down. Remove on a plate and set aside.
In a food processor add seedless dates, roasted foxnuts and puffed amaranth.
Also add peanut butter, cocoa powder and almonds.
Blitz everything till you get a sand like mixture.
Line a baking pan with 90 degree angles with parchment paper, so that nothing sticks. I have used 8 x 5.5 inch pan.
Dump the mixture into the baking pan and try to spread evenly and press with the help of a flat bowl so that everything gets settled and sticks together, If you do not use force you may come up with a crumbly bar.
Refrigerate for at least an hour to set properly. Flip it upside down on a chopping board and cut into desired bars with a sharp knife.
You can cover them individually in food wrapping paper and refrigerate. It has a good shelf life. Lasts upto two weeks or so.
Recipe by The Secret Ingredient at http://www.thesecretingredient.in/no-bake-foxnut-and-puffed-amaranth-granola-bar/