Banana Granola Bars

Healthy lifestyle is must and everyone should follow and who so ever is reading this and has started laughing after seeing all my full fat cake posts please pause. Few years back when my mother in law was diagnosed with diabetes, our focus towards diet and sugar management was bound to be natural. In comes to my rescue my partner in mischief’s elder sister. Debjani gupta is not only a dietician/ nutritionist but she is an example in herself. I was laughing away when Shohini told me the first time that Didi actually eats in order to stay lean and fit. She will not make you starve, instead she will make sure you eat, burn, eat, burn. Soon after consulting for my mil, few of my friends got in touch with her and result she has literally whipped up some of them fit. So here is one of her munching treat that she had advised actually almost a year back but me being lazy me took time. Kindly excuse the addition of chocolate chips again, you see twinkle toes needs her motivation.

Preparation time-10 min
Cooking time – 20 min
Yields- 10 bars

Ingredients

3 cup museli
3 banana
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp baking powder
10 tbsp seed mix
8 tbsp coconut oil
5 tbsp honey
chopped walnuts – 1/2 cup
salt pinch
chocolate chips 2 tbsp optional

Method

Preheat oven at 180. Mix all dry ingredients in separate bowl except baking powder. Mix all wet ingredients along with mashed banana in separate bowl, add the dry ingredients along with baking powder, mix. In the lined tray layer and flatten it out evenly. Bake for 20 min. Allow it to sit in the tray till it cools. Then refrigerate it for 2 hours before cutting it into squares. Before cutting carefully lift out the slab from the parchment paper, then cut. Wrap them in foil and refrigerate if making during summer/monsoon season.