These 5-Ingredient Vegan Caramelized Banana & Nut Bars are packed with deep caramelized banana flavour & are made with only a handful of ingredients. No refined sugar! Pack them for work, for picnic, or just for an emergency energy boost.
These banana bars have to be my favourite snack right now; I mean, I made a massive batch, so maybe that explains why I am eating these every day 😀
Banana bars are gluten-free and sweetened naturally. Believe it or not, the bananas are actually roasted. Have you every cooked a banana? It’s worth the try!
The oats, seeds and nuts are toasted separately, then using a food processor, all the ingredients are added there and blitzed until smooth-ish.
The ‘paste’ is then pressed onto a pan, and baked again, then cut into squares.
More Vegan Snack Recipes:
1. 4-Ingredient & 5-Minute Healthy Matcha Bites
2. 5-Ingredient Raw Vegan Protein Bites (7g Protein Per Bite)
3. Easy Vegan Carrot Cake Cookies
Anyway! Do let me know how you found this 5-Ingredient Vegan Caramelized Banana & Nut Bars Recipe if you try it though! And if there was anything you tried or something that worked better…Do drop me a comment below, or you can find me/message me directly on Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, or Facebook! I love seeing what my lovely readers think of my recipes!
Ingredients:
4 medium-sized bananas, sliced into 1/2 cm thick slices
1.5 cup (216g) nuts/seeds, a mix of walnuts cashews, almonds, pumpkin seeds
1 cup (81g) oats
6 (6 ) dates
1/4 tsp salt
2 teaspoons of cinnamon
Method:
1. Place sliced bananas on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Add oats and nuts to another baking dish. Bake the sliced banana at 375 deg F (190 C) for 15 mins, Reduce temperature to 350 deg f (180 C) then add the nuts and oats to the oven and bake for another 15 mins. Let them cool.
Alternatively, you can cook the bananas in a skillet with 2-3 tbsp non-dairy milk until caramelizing.
2. Add the toasted nuts and half of the oats to a food processor. Pulse to break the nuts into a coarse meal, then add the dates along with the caramelized bananas and pulse to break down the bananas a bit. Add cinnamon, salt, the other half of the oats and pulse again until a dough-like state. (If your dates are not very soft, process with the banana to break them down before this step)
3. Press this mix into a parchment-lined brownie pan and bake at 300 F (150 C) for 20 mins.
Cool, slice and store refrigerated for up to 2 weeks.
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