Poha Breakfast Bars

Source: Wendy AKA Toushoes, GFCFKids list

Ingredients:

1 cup thin poha flakes, uncooked, briefly processed in blender

1 cup quinoa flakes

1 1/2 cups Bette Hagman flour blend

1 cup, packed currants, raisins, cranberries, chopped prunes, dates, or other dried fruit*

1 cup pear juice (or apple juice, or orange juice, or mixture of ¼ cup molasses plus ¾ cup water)

1/4  cup brown sugar

1/2  tsp cinnamon, more or less to taste

1/2  tsp salt

1/2  cup vegetable oil

1/4  cup sesame seeds (or hemp nuts or other small nut(s))

sweet rice flour (put aside in bowl)

*soak dried fruit in small amt. of water if hard before adding to mixture.

Instructions:

1.      Preheat oven to 375°F.  

2.     Oil a 9” x 13” pan, or two 8” square pans. 

3.     Combine all ingredients except sweet rice flour in large bowl until moist enough to form a ball, without extra liquid.

4.     Put mixture in prepared pan(s) & spread evenly. 

5.     Bake for 30 minutes. 

6.     Remove from oven & cut into squares while still hot. 

7.     When bars are cool, remove from pan. 

8.     To prevent bars from sticking together, roll them in sweet rice flour.