Yield: 24 Bars
Measure | Ingredient |
---|---|
½ cup | Dried apricots, diced |
¼ cup | Raisins |
½ cup | Apples, peeled and grated |
½ cup | Reduced-sugar apricot preserves |
1½ teaspoon | Baking soda |
1 cup | All-purpose flour |
½ cup | Oat bran |
2 cups | Rolled oats |
1 teaspoon | Ground cinnamon |
1 cup | Brown sugar |
¾ cup | Reduced-calorie margarine, melted |
FILLING
CRUST
In a medium bowl, combine all filling ingredients. Stir well.
Make crust: In a large bowl, combine baking soda, flour, oat bran, oats, cinnamon, and brown sugar. Stir in melted margarine. Press slightly more than half of crust mixture in bottom of a 9- by 13-inch pan sprayed with vegetable cooking spray.
Spread on filling. Sprinkle on remaining crust. Bake at 325 degrees for 20 minutes. Cut into bars.
Makes 24 bars
Nutritional analysis: Per 2-inch square: 151 calories, 2 grams protein, 27 grams carbohydrate, 4 grams fat (26 percent), 124 milligrams sodium.
FROM Karen Mangum's cookbook "Life's Simple Pleasures: Fine Vegetarian Cooking for Sharing and Celebration."