Preparation Time: 1 hour
Banana and Date Seed Bars
Serves: 21
Ingredients
300ml Alpro Almond Original
150g Medjool dates
1 ripe banana
160g cashew nuts
170g almond butter
110g sunflower seeds
110g pumpkin seeds
50g sesame seeds
10g poppy seeds
250g porridge oats
150 ml agave
4 tsp mixed spice
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Add the Medjool dates to a small saucepan with 150ml water and warm over a medium heat until you have a sticky pulp.
- Add the date mixture to a food processor along with the banana, mixed spice and agave, and blend until smooth. Tip into a large mixing bowl.
- Add the Alpro Almond Original, cashew nuts and almond butter to the processor and whizz until smooth, then pour into the mixing bowl.
- Take 80g of the pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds, 40g of the sesame seeds and half the porridge oats. Whizz in the food processor for twenty seconds, and add to the mixing bowl. Add the remaining oats and stir to combine.
- Line a baking tray with parchment and pour the mixture in, spreading out with the back of a spoon to 1 cm thick.
- Sprinkle on the remaining pumpkin, sunflower, sesame and poppy seeds on top, place in the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes until set and golden brown.
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