No Bake Flaxseed Bars

These nutrient-dense No Bake Flaxseed Bars are perfect for those who crave for sweets but want to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Packed with flaxseeds, almond butter and dates these are perfect to load on omega-3 and fiber.

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword flax bars, flaxseed bars, flaxseed energy bars

Prep Time 10

Refrigerate 15

Total Time 25

Servings

Calories 210kcal

Author Gunjan

Ingredients

1/4 cup almond flour
1/4 cup almond butter
1 3/4 cups flaxseed meal
1 cup pitted dates
1/4 tsp salt
1 tbsp slivered almonds (for garnishing)

Instructions

Prepare an 8 inch square or 8*6*2 inch rectangle pan with a parchment paper and keep it aside.
In a food processor, combine almond flour, almond butter, dates, flaxseed meal and salt. Blend it until the ingredients starts to stick to each other. They will still be lose at this point.
Spoon it out in a large bowl and start forming a dough. Wet your hands with water and bind the ingredients together with the help of your hands. Wet you hands again with water if they dry up and continue forming a dough until its firm and sticks nicely to each other. Do not knead it just bind them together with wet hands.
Place the dough in the prepared pan and start to shape it with the help of your hands according to the shape of your pan.
Garnish it with sliced almonds and press the almonds into the shaped dough gently so that they don't fall out while slicing. Place the pan in the refrigerator for 15 minutes to settle.
Take it out of the refrigerator and place the pan on a flat counter. Gently pull out the parchment paper along with the settled bars. Place the parchment paper on a wooden cutting board and release its sides.
With the help of a sharp knife cut into desired slices and enjoy.

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Notes

Store these bars in the refrigerator in an air tight container for about 2 weeks.
Almond butter should be unflavored in this recipe.
This recipe makes 10 bars and the serving size is 1 bar per person.
Make sure to constantly wet your hands with water when forming a dough. Do not knead it just bind the ingredients together.
If the dough is too dry you may sprinkle little water on it to bind but do not pour a lot of water on it.
If desired you may fold 2-3 tbsp chocolate chips in the flaxseed bar dough.

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