Fruit and Nut Breakfast Bars
"This started out as a couscous "pudding" from a recipe book that was an utter failure. Not wanting to waste all that couscous, I had to do something with it. Following the principles from a recipe I'd baked up the previous week, I turned the mess into magic!"
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Serves:
-
16
ingredients
- 1 1⁄4 cups whole wheat couscous
- 3 cups 1% low-fat milk
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 lemon, zest of
- 1⁄2 cup mixed chopped dried fruit (apples, apricots, raisins, dates, cherries)
- 1⁄2 cup craisins
- 1⁄2 cup golden raisin
- 1⁄2 cup chopped roasted hazelnuts
- 1⁄2 cup millet
- 1⁄2 cup light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon clove
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ginger
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons white sugar, for sprinkling
directions
- Scald the milk, then stir in the honey, vanilla and lemon zest.
- Add the couscous and stir once, then cover and let stand until the milk is absorbed, about 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, combine fruit, nuts, millet, spices and sugar.
- Once couscous is done, fluff with a fork. Allow couscous to cool until warm, then stir together with fruit mixture.
- Beat two eggs together, then stir into couscous mixture until moist and sticky. Add additional milk if necessary.
- Pat mixture into greased 13x9" pan, smoothing out surface with the back of a spoon. Sprinkle with white sugar to make a nice crisp crust.
- Put pan into a preheated 350°F oven and bake for about 40 minutes of until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Allow pan to cool completely, then cut into 16 skinny bars.
- Store bars in refrigerator up to one week.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
kitchengrrl
Fort Worth, TX
In my family, I am most famous (infamous) for several dishes:
My first original recipe: Conceived around age 7, for a cheese sandwich. Toasted English muffin, spread with butter, slice of American cheese, a good layer of Parmesan, top with other half of buttered muffin.
My most disasterous recipe: The Exploding Brownies. Otherwise great hershey's recipe for brownies involving an ingredient (baking powder) that I'd never used before. I somehow misread 1/4 teaspoon as a 1/4 cup. Brownie coated the ENTIRE oven.
My most requested recipe: Stollen at Christmas. I am required to make one for my mother ever since my sister gave me Christian Teubner's wonderful Christmas Baking book full of traditional German Christmas treats.
