Chocolate-Avocado Breakfast Bars
Oct 23, 2018
How about adding a whole bunch of nutrients to delicious, unprocessed chocolate to get you going in the morning?
These breakfast bars are sweet, crunchy, and incredibly satisfying. You might even feel like you’re having a treat — oh wait, you are! ย Chocolate-Avocado Breakfast Bars taste like a treat and they’re packed with unprocessed goodness.ย So when you enjoy this recipe, you’re actually treating your body as well as youโre treating your palate.ย Scrumptious and healthy — all in one.ย Perfect.
Chocolate-Avocado Breakfast Bars
Ingredients
- 2 cups oats
- ยฝ cup almond meal
- ยฝ cup shredded unsweetened coconut
- ยฝ teaspoon sea salt
- ยผ cup coconut oil, melted, plus 2 teaspoons
- 3 tablespoons amaranth, "popped" (see note)
- ยฝ pound dark chocolate, finely chopped
- ยฝ ripe avocado, medium-large
- 3 tablespoons honey
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375ยฐF, and line an 8x8-inch) baking pan with parchment paper. Set aside. (Use a large piece that will cover the sides and cut slits in each corner so that it will lay flat.)
- Add the oats, almond meal, shredded coconut and salt into a large mixing bowl. Drizzle with the coconut oil, mix until everything is evenly coated, and then pour the mixture onto a baking sheet and roast in the preheated 375ยฐF oven until it's golden brown, about 20 minutes. (Do not wash the bowl you mixed in -- set it aside for later.)
- While the oat mixture is roasting, melt the chocolate in the top of a double boiler and mash the avocado with a fork until it's as smooth as possible -- you will need ยฝ cup. (Hereโs a photographic guide to peeling and cutting an avocado.)
- Pour the melted chocolate into the saved mixing bowl and add the mashed avocado and honey. Mix until smooth.
- Once the oat mixture is out of the oven pour it into the chocolate-avocado mixture, along with the popped amaranth.
- Stir until everything is evenly blended and pour it into the parchment-lined baking pan. Use your hands to firmly press down, spreading it evenly into the corners of the pan. Then use a large, flat-bottomed metal spatula to press down again, to flatten it evenly.
- Cover the pan with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 3 hours, and ideally overnight, before cutting it into 12 evenly sized bars.
Notes
Nutrition
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I like this recipe. It look healthy and delicious. I will try this for my family. Thank you for sharing.
nice recipe dear thanks for sharing with us
Hi! The link to popped amaranth isn’t working. Also I need to substitute coconut as I am allergic. Any suggestions?
Hi Tracey! I’m not sure which link you’re referring to? If you jump to the recipe notes beneath the recipe instructions, it’ll guide you through making the popped amaranth.
As for replacing the coconut . . . you could use finely chopped almonds, pecans or even a dried fruit, like apple or apricot. And while I haven’t tried it, I think rice bran or grape seed oil instead of the coconut oil, would both work nicely. Hope this helps and happy unprocessed cooking. ๐ ~Valentina
What a huge surprise. Didn’t expect to like these very much, but I LOVE them. Always have some in the fridge as a last minute substitute for a meal–or to tide me over in-between. They really do the trick. Plus I get my chocolate fix without all the bad stuff in the chocolate I normally eat. Love the texture, too. I do need to find other recipes to make with all this amaranth I now have. ๐
Linda, I’m so happy to hear these are a hit with you! Yay! I’m betting Andrew has a few amaranth recipes up his sleeve. ๐
I just made this recipe and I’m waiting patiently while they chill in the fridge.
I did a nutrition analysis on them for myself and thought I’d share since Beverly asked. I replaced the amaranth with 1 tablespoon hemp seed and 4 teaspoons chia seed based on Valentina’s suggestion in the comments. 1/12 recipe has 323 calories, 19 g fat, 34 g carbohydrate, and 7 g protein.
OMG! I could eat one of these for breakfast every day for the rest of my life!!! Made them last night and it was pretty easy. Popping amaranth is fun!
So happy to hear that Laura! Yay! ๐