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Granola Bars

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Cooking Implements

Knife
Baking pan
Parchment paper
Food processor
Spoon for mixing
Medium-size mixing bowl
Something with a flat surface to press with

Ingredients

1½ cup oats (any processed oats like rolled or steel-cut or quick should work)
1 cup pumpkin or sunflower seeds
1¼ cup pitted dates, raisins, cranberries or other dried fruit
¼ cup maple syrup (or other sweet syrup)
¼ cup peanut butter (or seed butter)
3 tablespoons of poppy, sesame, flax, or chia seeds, and/or coconut flakes

Instructions

Put the 1¼ cup of dried fruits into the food processor and process down into small pieces
Add the 1½ cup of oats (and the larger seeds, if used) to the food processor and process until mixed
Pour out the mixture into the bowl
Add the ¼ cup of syrup and ¼ cup of nut/seed butter to the bowl
Add the smaller seeds/coconut flakes to the bowl
Mix until thoroughly combined (you may have to use your hands)
Line the baking pan with parchment paper, pour the mixture into the pan, and flatten roughly with the back of a spoon
Place parchment paper on top and press the mixture down flat with the bottom of a glass or other flat object
Place the mixture in the freezer for 20 minutes or the fridge for 40-60 minutes
After chilling, remove the mixture from the baking pan, take off the parchment paper, and cut into equal portions

Depending on the ingredients used, they will usually keep for a couple weeks in the fridge or a couple months in the freezer. Although the ingredients are shelf stable on their own, I'm not yet sure how long it takes for a room-temperature granola bar to go bad, but I'd imagine you want to consume it within three days or so.

Alterations

Generally this recipe just consists of oats, dried fruits, seeds, a sweetener, and something to bind it all together. You can play around with pretty much all of those ingredients to find a set of flavours that you like the best. You can also play around with the proportions of ingredients to arrive at a consistency that you like.

If you don't have a food processor, you could manually chop the ingredients into smaller pieces, or keep them whole if you're not using large seeds or dried fruit.