Energy Quinoa Breakfast Bars

The slow cooker basically makes these energy quinoa breakfast bars for you! Gluten and dairy free and loaded with fiber to keep you full!

Course Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 4

Total Time 4 10

Servings Bars

Calories 174kcal

Author FoodFaithFitness

Ingredients

2 Tbsp Almond butter + More for drizzling
2 Tbsp Pure maple syrup
1 Cup Unsweetened vanilla almond milk
Pinch of salt
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
2 Large eggs
1/3 Cup Quinoa uncooked
1/2 Cup Raisins
1/3 Cup Roasted Almonds roughly chopped *
1/3 Cup Dried apples roughly chopped
2 Tbsp Chia seeds

Instructions

Spray a 5 Quart Slow Cooker ** (READ NOTES) with cooking spray and cut a piece of parchment to just fit in the bottom of it. I just traced my slow cooker on a large piece of parchment, cut it out and stuck it in. Spray the parchment with cooking spray, and press it down to adhere it to the slow cooker. ***
In a large, microwave safe bowl, combine the almond butter and maple syrup and melt until the almond butter is creamy, about 30 seconds.
Whisk together the almond butter and maple syrup. Then, whisk in the almond milk, cinnamon and salt. Whisk until the milk is well incorporated with the almond butter.
Whisk in the eggs until well combined, then stir in all remaining ingredients thoroughly.
Pour the mixture into the prepared slow cooker and cook on LOW heat until the top of the bars just appear set, about 3 1/2-4 hours****. Turn the slow cooker off and let the bars cool inside COMPLETELY, with the lid off.
Run a knife around the outside of the bars and remove the bowl from the slow cooker.
Once cool, cut into bars, drizzle with additional almond butter, and DEVOUR!

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Notes

*if you can’t find toasted almonds, just dry toast them in a 400 degree oven for about 5-10 minutes, until lightly golden brown.

**I have tried this in a slighter bigger slow cooker with doubling the recipe and it did not work well. So, I am lead the believe this recipe will also not work well in a smaller cooker as the bars will be too thick and they cook weird.

***Don’t skip this step. It makes the bars so much easier to get out.
Store the bars in an air tight container in the refrigerator.

****Cooking time is based on a 5 squart slow cooker.

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