Nut and fruit breakfast bites
5
Points®
Total time: 15 min • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 0 min • Serves: 16 • Difficulty: Easy
This recipe strikes that perfect balance of sweet and savory by incorporating sugar, honey, ground cinnamon, oats, and chopped walnuts, plus your favorite dried fruit. These bars will fuel you up before a long day of work or school, and you can make enough in one pan that will last you all week. Pair one or two of these crunchy, chewy bites with nonfat yogurt or a piece of fruit and you've got a great breakfast on the run.
Ingredients
Reduced-calorie margarine
⅓ cup(s), soft
Sugar
⅓ cup(s)
Honey
¼ cup(s)
Ground cinnamon
½ tsp
Dried mixed fruit
1¼ cup(s), such as raisins, apples and cranberries
Uncooked quick oats
1 cup(s)
Uncooked old fashioned rolled oats
1¾ cup(s), coarsely crushed
Chopped walnuts (unsalted, raw or dry roasted, no sugar added)
¼ cup(s)
Instructions
1
Combine margarine, sugar and honey in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil; boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat; stir in remaining ingredients.
2
Press mixture into the bottom of a 9-inch square baking pan coated with cooking spray. Allow to cool and then cut into 16 pieces. Store in a covered container in the refrigerator.
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