Quick & Healthy Fruity Flapjacks

I found this recipe when I was looking at healthy recipes. Instead of being full of butter these flapjacks are made with banana. They are really, really tasty even if it is a strange idea. Recently I've found loads of recipes that use banana instead of other ingredients, it is amazing how much they can be used for especially beucase I always have overipe bananas in my fruit bowl that I need to use up/ get out of eating. They're so quick to, they take about 20 minutes overall.

I'm not really a fan of bananas but I do love them used in other things. If you really don't like bananas this probably isn't the recipe for you but you can only taste the banana ever so slightly.

You can really change this basic recipe aswell so add any fruit/ nuts/ seeds that you want. I did make them with cranberry and white chocolate chips once which was delicious but probably not 'healthy'. Sometimes I use a tablespoon of honey instead of the sugar which also gives it a lovely flavour.

 

You will need: 

• 1 banana
• 50g of dried fruit - my favourite to use is apricot and sultanas
• 25g of sugar - muscavado sugar is nicest in this recipe
• 100g of porridge oats
• 3tbsp of oil - the recipe said rapeseed oil but I have tried sunflower and vegetable and they both work too. 

Method: 

• Preheat the oven to 160c
• Mash up a banana with a fork or spoon, then add the dried fruit.
• Stir in the sugar and oil, then add in the porridge oats and mix it all together thoroughly. 
• I love it with a teaspoon of vanilla and a teaspoon of cinnamon added but it is also nice without.
• Place the mixture in a 17cm square tin and cook for around 15 mins until it is golden. 
• Leave it to cool if you want it to harden, you can eat whilst its warm and its lovely and squidgy but less flapjacky.