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Oats & Dates Squares / Bars

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When I was asked to participate in the A to Z recipe challenge, a challenge initiated on Facebook Group, I was wondering what could be my recipe, that too starting with the letter ‘D’? Date was something, that I thought about right from the beginning, but was not sure of something interesting with dates. Then, all of a sudden, I got reminded of this recipe, of bars or blocks, made of dates and oats.

These days, oats is a common feature in the breakfast, having a high nutritious and health value. And I could use it in a completely new avatar in this recipe; this thought made me super excited. Luckily the oats and dates bar came out pretty nicely, quite like the way I thought. Now, I am pretty pleased to live up to the challenge. I hope you will love this crunchy bites with the falvaour of dates.

“Oats & Dates Squares / Bars” is my contribution to the A to Z recipe challenge for the month of November. Letter “D” is the challenge for this month and I choose Dates as the key ingredient of my recipe.

Oats & Dates Squares / Bars

Ingredients  for :

  1. Dates – 300 gm.
  2. Oats – 150 gms.
  3. Plain flour – 100 gms.
  4. Brown sugar – 140 gms.
  5. Butter (cold & unsalted) – 150 gm.
  6. Vanilla extract – 1 teaspoon
  7. Baking soda – ½ teaspoon
  8. Ground cinnamon  – 1/8 teaspoon
  9. Salt – ¼ teaspoon

Procedure :

Remove the seeds from the dates. Otherwise it is better to use pitted dates. Transfer the dates in a sauce pan. Add 1 medium cup of water to the dates and mix well. Put the sauce pan over low flame and cook the dates till they become mushy and absorb all water.  Let these mushy dates come to the room temperature. Then make a puree out of these mushy dates in a grinder or food processor. Add vanilla extract while making the puree. Date filling is ready to be used.

Now pour the oats, flour, baking soda, cinnamon powder, sugar and salt in grinder or food processor. Grind for few seconds so that all ingredients mix well. Then cut the cold butter into small pieces and add to the dry oat mixture. Again process for few minutes till the mixture gets a crumbly short dough texture.

Grease a 20 cm. (7.8 inchs) square baking dish/ tin and line with a parchment paper. Use 2/3 of the crumbly oats mixture to make a thick bed in the baking dish. Then spread the dates filling over the oats layer. Crumble the remaining 1/3 oats mixture over the date layer.

Now bake in pre heated oven at 180ºC or 350ºF for 40-45 minutes until the top becomes golden brown.

Take out the dish from the oven and cool completely on a wire rack. Then cover the dish and refrigerate for 2-3 hours until it is firm enough to cut into squares.

Now transfer the whole oats and dates square on a plate and cut into small bars. It can be stored into refrigerator for one week.

Note :

  1. Baking tins may take lesser time (35-40 min.) to bake than a porcelain baking dish.
  2. If you are using salted butter then skip adding salt.
  3. I have used ‘Quaker’ quick cooking oats. But one can use traditional rolled oats as well.
  4. Try to cover the date layer completely with the crumbled oats mixture. I reserved lesser amount of oats mixture that is why it was insufficient to cover the whole dates layer.

 

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55 thoughts on “Oats & Dates Squares / Bars”

    1. Jayeeta

      Reply

      Thanks for stopping by my blog, Labarah…..I just visited your blog……..I am very happy to find your blog as it is full of non-veg recipes………can’t wait to give them a try…… 😀

  6. Vidya Narayan

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    These recipes are such great ways to feed kids at home with healthy treats. I loved the addition of oats in the recipe. Bars looks yum! Glad you are enjoying the challenge and churning out great recipes. Cheers!

    1. Jayeeta

      Reply

      Thank you, Vidya……I am really enjoying my participation in this group and scratching my head for new ideas… 🙂
      It is a small effort from my side to make boring breakfast a bit interesting and healthy one….. 🙂

  11. Priya Suresh

    Reply

    Wow what a terrific bars there, i just love oats in my cooking and baking. Seriously this oats dates squares bars looks absolutely sinful.

  16. Flavours Treat

    Reply

    These little squares looks delectable and they are great as guiltfree snacks to munch at anytime. Lovely recipe.

  22. code2cook

    Reply

    with all healthy ingredients added this oats dates, squares are perfect power packed snack for munching. Loved this squares you made so beautifully.

    1. Jayeeta

      Reply

      Thank you Lucy. 🙂
      Thanks for stopping by my blog……It helps me to find your amazing blog……I am impressed that you write your blog in two languages…..This is a nice way to keep alive our own language…..I spent 3 years in Europe and I enjoyed every bit of it…..I am pretty excited to try your recipes…. 🙂

      1. lithuanianintheusa

        Reply

        Your blog is beautiful my dear :)) So many delicious recipes you have! As for writing in two languages, I just want that my home country people and everyone in the world could read all the recipes and prepare them at home. That was my main goal writing in two languages 🙂 If you try any of my recipes, let me know how did you like it 🙂

        1. Jayeeta

          Reply

          Sure dear, I will let you know……I should also write my blog in two languages as Bengali is my mother tongue…….But I am too lazy in doing so…..Hope one day I could be as enthusiastic as you… 🙂

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