These cardamom granola bars are the perfect health food snack and high energy pick me up. Cardamoms are noted for their strong and unique flavor. They come in two distinct varieties, green and black. The black cardamom has a more distinctive smoky flavor with a type of mint coolness. Green cardamom is sweeter and the perfect thing to make a granola bar stand out. These granola bars aren’t just healthy, delicious, and an energy booster, but they also can help with halitosis because cardamom is a natural breath deodorizer.
Health Benefits
The primary ingredient in these wonderful granola bars are of course cardamoms. Cardamoms are one of those wonder ingredients that grant nothing but amazingly powerful health benefits to your body. They help your body insure gastrointestinal protection, cholesterol control, cancer reduction, blood circulation, and cardiovascular health. Cardamom even helps ensure sexual health and has been used as a cure for impotence, erectile dysfunction, and premature ejaculation. It also helps improve oral health and treats halitosis.
Ingredients
cups rolled oats: 2
cup raisins: 1/2
cup walnuts – chopped and toasted: 1/2
tsp ground cardamom: 1 1/2
tbsp butter: 6
cup packed brown sugar: 1/3
tbsp honey: 3
How To Make Cardamom Granola Bars
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Prepare the pan by lining a 9 in square pan with foil, making sure toextend the foil over the sides.
- Grease the foil with butter.
- Mix theoats, raisins, walnuts, and ground cardamom in a bowl.
- To a saucepan, add the butter, brown sugar, and honey and heat until the butter melts completely and starts boiling.
- Coat the dry ingredients with the mixture.
- Transfer the mixture to the prepared pan.
- Press down on themevenly using a spatula.
- Bake forapproximately 30 min or until the top turns a golden brown.
- Let the bars cool on a rack.
- Lift the bars out of the pan using the foil and place on a cutting board.
- Cut into 18 bars.
Trivia
Cardamom is one of the most expensive spices in the world by weight.