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Dried fruit bars

Dried fruit bars

Ingredients

Chewing dried fruits just like that, even with tea, is not a very exciting experience. So you can get carried away...

Step 1

Dates pour 0.5 cups of water and leave for 30 minutes. Put the dates together with the liquid in a blender, add honey and grind into a paste.

Step 2

Soak raisins in water for 10 minutes. Drain the water, dry the raisins.

Step 3

Spread the oatmeal in an even layer on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at 170ºС until golden brown, 10-12 minutes.

Step 4

Finely chop nuts, peaches and dried apricots, mix in a bowl with cereal, add raisins and cherries.

Step 5

Transfer the date paste to a heavy bottomed saucepan, add apple juice and cinnamon, bring to a boil and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 2 minutes. Allow to cool slightly and add to the oat-nut mixture, mix.

Step 6

Put the resulting mixture on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper greased with vegetable oil, smooth it and also cover with parchment on top. Bake at 170ºС for 30 minutes. until golden.

Step 7

Leave for 10 min. cool, then cut into 20 rectangles. Let them cool completely and wrap each in cling film, paper or foil.