Cooking Tips
Tropical breakfast bars
Wrap up these tropical breakfast bars and pack up for an on-the-go fruity breakfast that will help to fill you up. Make them with just five ingredients, plus oil from your storecupboard
- Prep:
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Ingredients
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil, plus extra for the tin
- 2 large, very ripe bananas
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 70g light brown soft sugar
- 250g nutty muesli
- 100g tropical dried fruit mix
Method
- STEP 1
Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Lightly oil and line a 20cm deep square tin with baking parchment.
- STEP 2
Mash the bananas in a bowl until smooth, then stir through the oil, egg and sugar. Fold through the muesli, most of the tropical mix and a pinch of salt. Spoon the mixture into the tin and sprinkle with the remaining tropical mix. Bake for 35-40 mins, leave to cool in the tin, then turn out on to a board and slice into 10 bars. Will keep in an airtight container for four days.
Goes well with
Mango smoothie
Cool down this summer with a fresh and fruity mango smoothie. Mango and banana are blended with orange juice for a burst of tropical flavour.
Ingredients
- 1 medium mango
- 1 banana
- 500ml orange juice
- 4 ice cubes
Method
- STEP 1
Cut the mango down either side of the flat stone, then peel and cut the flesh into chunks.
- STEP 2
Peel and chop the banana.
- STEP 3
Put all the ingredients into a food processor or blender, then process until smooth and thick. Keep in the fridge and use the day you make it.
Tropical breakfast bars