Don’t buy them when you can make your own healthy vegan granola bars!

Based on Martha Stewart’s recipe these Healthy Vegan Granola Bars aren’t JUST healthy, they’re also a little addictive!! Full of nuts, dried fruits, seeds and spices they’re a perfect on the go treat!

I love Martha Stewart.  In fact when I grow up I want to be Martha Stewart and have her house and dogs (sorry Meg).  I could watch her videos all day, she’s got such a calm, unflappable manner and a voice like liquid honey ❤

This is the first one of her recipes I’ve tried though and in our house we do so love granola, whether it be …

 – Goji and Quinoa Flake Granola Bars

 – Peanut Butter Granola (practically never don’t have a supply of this)

 – Gingerbread Granola to top your festive breakfasts

– The crowning glory of a Neapolitan Breakfast Parfait

One of the great things about these bars is there’s no added refined sugar.  The sweetness comes just from all the wonderful dried fruits and a dash of maple syrup.

I’ve made a few changes simply because I didn’t have or couldn’t get hold of some of the ingredients.  I was also fortunate enough to be sent some of these amazing dried apricots from Avicenna Bio Foods.  Honestly, hand on heart, the BEST dried apricots I’ve ever tasted.  Beautifully packaged, these apricots are picked ripe and dried naturally without added preservatives or artificial colouring.  This gives them that gorgeous bronze colour rather than the usual bright orange.  They have an almost spicy taste to them and are incredibly moreish.  Fortunately there was enough in the box for me to eat AND use in this healthy vegan granola bars recipe ?

There’s a bit of faff involved in making these, but only in gathering and preparing the ingredients.  Putting these deliciously healthy vegan granola bars together is a doddle with a food processor, one bowl and one spatula.  I’m also not usually a fan of raw mix.  I know this is the best bit for some people but I could never stand that grainy raw flour texture!  These tasted a bit like Christmas in a bowl in their raw state and a bit like a more chewy Christmas cake once cooked!  Which is all fine by me, I {heart} Christmas cake!

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If you make this recipe or any of the recipes from The Cook & Him we’d LOVE to see! Just snap a picture and share it on Instagram using #thecookandhim and tagging @thecookandhim in the photo itself (as this guarantees we’ll see your picture!)

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