Fruits and Veggies Monday | Re-charge with Fig-alicious Bars
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What’s new in your world of fruits and veggies?
Figs!
Tasty both fresh and dried, figs are low in calories and high in antioxidants. They’re packed with so many vitamins and minerals, including potassium and calcium! I have a wonderful baked Fig bar which I have shared before but I thought I would try something different for @lenasveganliving’s Fruits and Veggies Monday! If you haven’t tried figs, you must! They’re a wonderful sugar replacement for muffins, pies, cookies and more!
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Figgy Nut Bars!
You’ll love these bars! Lots of Nuts! No added sugars and they certainly pack a protein punch! Nutty on the top and bottom and figgy in the middle! A perfect snack, dessert or after a workout!
I used
- Walnuts (1 cup)
- Almonds (1 cup)
- Pecans (1 ½ cup)
- Organic raisins (1 cup)
- Cinnamon (1/2 tsp)
- Dried Figs (2 cup)
Beginning with the base layer...
Walnuts, almonds, and raisins! How simple is that?
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Good old Walter…
my faithful food processor came to the rescue! He pulsed the walnuts, almonds, cinnamon and raisins until they were fine! While Walter was busy I placed the dried figs in hot water to soak for a couple of hours. They’ll need to rehydrate a bit to make the figgy paste.
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Press the base…
evenly into a parchment lined baking dish. I refrigerated the base while the figs were soaking.
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Figs are ready!
Back at the food processor I placed the figs into the bowl and began pulsing. Using some of the soaking water as needed I pulsed the figs until the figs were a nice paste! Spread this paste over the base layer but remember to leave about ¼ cup fig paste in the processor.
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Finally…
the pecan topping! Pulsed with the remaining figgy paste just until they were nicely chopped the top layer was ready! Crumbled over the figgy paste and lightly pressed the bars were skirted off to the refrigerator to chill!
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Snack anyone?
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How about a Birds eye view! Have a fig-alicious week my friends!
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A big thanks to our fabulous hostess @lenasveganliving ! Without the gracious sponsorships from @lenasveganliving, @plantstoplanks, @vegansofsteemit and @naturalmedicine we wouldn’t be able to enjoy this great weekly gathering! Thank you all! Together we celebrate healthy fruits and veggies with fellow Steemians all over the world. I hope you’ll join us!
And as always, blessings to you all!
I adore this - I've always loved fig slice and this looks like an amazing version. You are the QUEEN of great snacks, @birdsinparadise - I'd get so fat if I was your friend! PS - encouraging you to use #naturalmedicine as one of your tags - we'd be so proud to feature your posts on our front end for all to see!
You are too kind, made my day ! I will remember to use your tag!!! I would love to share these snacks with you!! With all of the hard work you do you certainly deserve alot of tlc :) Blessings xx
I have never been a fan of figs, but recently I had a fig based bar thingy that someone brought into work and it was quite tasty, maybe my tastes have changed
This looks quite interesting and I have bookmarked it
Figs are awesome!!!!
I must try them again soon
Well, once you have tried them you'll love them!! These are so easy, and I'm sure your grand children will LOVE them :) Counting the days... and saving up the recipes!! Treats for the little ones! So exciting!
Ohh yeah I am building up a good list of recipes thanks :)
I haven't had figs in ages. It sure does look figalicious!
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I have such fruit envy looking around at all of the posts this week! Figs are definitely going to be on my next shopping list. These look waaaaayyyy better than an other figgy snack you can find on the store shelves. ;)