Hi and a huge welcome to Steve's Kitchen Today, continuing the student meal theme
in this kitchen with very few appliances, you know those granola bars you can buy
in the store with that lovely white chocolate coating on, We're going to be
making those today and they're very simple to make and so delicious when you
make your own. Now our recipe is starting with the rolled oats, don't get those
quick oats they're really too pappy and they don't add the texture we want. So
we're going to take two and a half cups into a pan. Now I haven't got an oven, you
could roast these in the oven. Bring them over to your stovetop, put it on a medium
to high heat and then what you're going to do is whilst this pan is heating,
we're just going to continue to stir them until they go a little bit of a
golden brown. Now if you really wanted to you could miss this step out altogether
but I think it adds so much more richer flavor if the oats are toasted. So after
three or four minutes you can see the oatmeal is going a lovely sort of golden
brown. Now don't overdo it we don't want that bitterness from burnt oatmeal and I
want the oatmeal to stop cooking, so I'm just going to pop it into a mixing bowl. Now
whilst that pan is still hot I've got 60 grams of butter which is about quarter
of a cup, I've got 50 grams, that's about quarter of a cup of brown sugar and 1/3
of a cup of, 110 grams, of honey. Now I'm just going to bring the heat back up and
start to mix this through. Now I should say I'm not keen on these induction hobs
to be honest, I do prefer gas or electric but this one seems to work okay.
Now when it starts to bubble like that I'm going to continue to stir it for about
three minutes. Now I think that's been long enough all my sugars have dissolved
there so I'm going to take this off the heat, there's a gorgeous smell now of
caramel. Now I'm going to take that and pour it over my rolled oats, at this
point you can be as creative as you like now. I've got some beautiful cranberries,
half a cup, just going to pop it in there. I've also got lovely moist golden
raisins, 1/2 a cup of those and I'm adding in sunflower seeds. You could add
in nuts or cashews whatever you like half a cup of those, again I'm also going
to be adding chocolate chip into this but I'm going to mix this through and
let it cool down a little bit before we put the chocolate chips in. So get a nice
even coating of that sugar and butter over
the grains. Now that is still super hot so I'm just gonna pop it aside now. I
kind of wish I had a square tray but the only thing is I've got this 9-inch round
deep pan dish, I'm just taking a piece of baking paper, cutting it to a point
eyeballing it roughly to the center and I'm just going to cut around and I'm
putting the circle of paper so the granola bars will come out nice and
easily. So I've got my tray prepared, I'm going to pop these chocolate chips in
there now and don't forget it is a bit hot so we've got to work quite quickly.
Chocolate chips in and give this a good mix through and I've used half a cup of
dark chocolate chips for this. Okay that is now ready and mixed we're going to
take our granola mix and pop it into our tray, pack this down nice and even and
pretty firm. You do want to push down quite hard on the granola mix. Now whilst
that looks and smells delicious I just want to chill it for five or so minutes
in the fridge. Now I've bought it out of the fridge but I've also bought it out of
the country. We are back in Australia we didn't get chance to finish this while
we were in Malaysia so I've remade it here in Australia and
this beautiful sunny winter's day. Come and take a look at this, it's set up nice
and firmly, if I give it a little bit of a crack, I'm going to tip it out onto a
board hopefully it'll come out in one piece, give it a little bit of a bang
there she is. Take our piece of baking paper off the
back, look at that beautiful granola. I'm just going to turn this over of course I
didn't bring this from Malaysia, we did actually remake it here in Australia. I'm
going to get a knife now and we're just going to cut through this beautiful granola
Look at that, doesn't that look gorgeous. I'm going to cut it into some fingers or
some slightly large fingers and I'm also going to then just cut this down, I've
got the the parakeets flying above me. We've got these absolutely gorgeous
little granola bars here. Now I'm just going to space these out a little bit
When I finished these in Malaysia I added a little bit of yogurt to some white
chocolate and coated the tops, here in Australia I'm just going to go for a
beautiful melted white chocolate. So it's not
super hot at the moment, this chocolate I'm just going to nip the end off my
piping bag, be a little careful it doesn't come running out there, I'm just
going to take that white chocolate and let it drizzle over the bars. Now I'm
just going to pull that corner one off there, the chocolate's still a little bit
gooey and a little bit soft. If you let these set up, you can store them in the
fridge. they'll last for months and months and months. Of course they're not going to
last for month's with me because they're just too good. Homemade granola bars are
so simple to make and they taste delicious
Here goes, the lovely caramelized sugars and honey, the seeds, a little bit of
chocolate in there, the fruit as well. This is so so good you have to try it.
Take some photographs, share them across on social media and let me know what you
think. In the meantime share the love, give this one a thumbs up and I will see
you in a new video very shortly from Australia, be good