Breakfast bars

Breakfast bars

These were really delicious and filling bars, and the kids enjoyed them too. They are great to put into school lunch boxes as they don't contain nuts. The recipe is in Everyday cooking for Thermomix families book/chip.

Milled rice and seeds

The first step involves milling the rice and seeds then setting them aside. It still amazes me how easily and quickly this happens in the Thermomix. Next the apple and dried fruits are added. You can follow the recipe or just use whatever combination of dried fruits you like, to the same weight as instructed.

Fruit mixture

Once the rest of the ingredients are added, and the rice and seed mixture is returned to the bowl, it all gets mixed together, then pressed into a slice tin. They are then cooked in the oven and left to cool on the bench before slicing into bars. The bars are quite soft, they stay together, but they aren't like a crunchy muesli bar. I might try cooking them a little longer next time to see if they do get a bit crunchier.

Baked slice

My slicing skills are not the greatest - next time I will try harder to get uniform sized bars! In the end it worked out ok having different sizes because it meant the smaller ones could go into the kids lunch boxes and the larger ones were a more substantial snack for the adults.

Happy thermomixing!