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A Nutmeg Notebook recipe inspired by Chef AJ

Oat & Jam Bars – Jammie’s!

Made using my Quinoa Banana Oat Muffin recipe.
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Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 20 ounces mashed overripe banana – about 2 1/3 cups of mashed banana frozen bananas thawed out is fine
  • 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
  • 1/2 cup Quinoa Flakes quinoa flour, ground millet, ground prewashed quiona or add 1/2 cup more rolled oats
  • 2 cups Quick Cooking Steel Cut Oats* see note below recipe
  • 2 1/2 cups Old Fashioned rolled Oats – use certified gluten free oats to make these gluten free
  • 1/4 cup ground golden flaxseed meal
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder -optional
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
  • 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg – freshly ground is best – see video
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla powder or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 – 2 Jars Fruit Spread – fruit juice sweetened – no added sugar

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a large bowl mash the bananas using a potato masher or a large fork. Mix in the applesauce. Add the cinnamon, baking powder, cardamom, nutmeg and vanilla powder or vanilla extract. Stir until well incorporated. Add the quinoa flakes, quick cooking steel cut oats, old fashioned oats and ground flaxseed meal. Stir until well combined.
  3. This batter can make 2 – 9 inch square silicone pans of fruit bars or 1 – 9 inch silicone pan of fruit bars and 6 muffins. If making 2 pans of fruit bars you will need 2 jars of fruit spread.
  4. If making a 9 inch silicone pan use 3 cups of the batter – spread it out evenly and top with 1 jar of fruit spread – using a spatula to spread it covering the top evenly.
  5. You will have 3 cups of batter left and can make another pan of bars or 6 muffins. Using 1/2 cup of batter per muffin fill the muffin pan.
  6. The bars and muffins take 30 minutes in my Breville Smart Oven Air on the bake function.
  7. Let cool completely before trying to remove from silicone pans. Using a plastic knife cut the bars into 16 servings. Both the bars and the muffins may be frozen for future use.

Notes

You can use all rolled oats instead of the various grains I use in the recipe. It would be a total of 5 cups of rolled oats and grinding 1/2 cup of oats into a flour in your blender or food processor.
* Some people have told me that they use the regular steel cut oats but first they put them in their food processor and using the pulse function they cut the steel cut oats smaller – which is what is done to make quick cooking steel cut oats. So give that a try if you can’t find the quick cooking steel cut oats. 
 
If you wanted to make the fruit bars in the muffin pans I suggest using 1/4 cup batter per muffin cup and then top with the jam. You will get 24 individual little treats that way. I did make them into 12 muffins with jam on top but we felt like that was too much – they were way to filling that way. * Some people have told me that they use the regular steel cut oats but first they put them in their food processor and using the pulse function they cut the steel cut oats smaller – which is what is done to make quick cooking steel cut oats. So give that a try if you can’t find the quick cooking steel cut oats. 

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