If you haven’t noticed, I am obsessed with halva and its flavor profile. Ever since moving to Israel I am using Silan (date honey) and tahini in and on everything. These granola bars use a little bit of regular sugar, oats, tahini and silan and then you can add anything you want. You can make them gluten free by using gluten free flour.
Halva Granola Bars
Servings
10 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 2/3 cup quick cooking oats
- Scant 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup whole wheat flour or any gluten free flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup pistachios chopped (or other mixed nuts of choice)
- 1 cup chocolate chips or mix of dried fruits and/or chocolate
- 6 tablespoons oil
- 1 tablespoon water
- 6 tablespoons silan date honey
- 1/3 cup pure tahini
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Lightly grease the paper with non stick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, stir together all the dry ingredients, including the nuts, chocolate, and/or fruits.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together oil, silan and water. Toss the wet ingredients with the dry and add the tahini. Mix well.
- Pour out onto the parchment lined pan and pat into a nice rectangle about 1 inch thick.
- Bake the bars for 30 to 40 minutes, until they’re brown around the edges.
- Cool the bars in their pan completely and then cut into desired shapes. Store in an airtight container or individually wrap in saran wrap and freeze until ready to eat.
- Adapted from Smitten Kitchen’s Thick, Chewy Granola Bars
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Halva Granola Bars
Amount per Serving
Calories
421
% Daily Value*
Fat
24
g
37
%
Saturated Fat
5
g
31
%
Trans Fat
0.03
g
Polyunsaturated Fat
6
g
Monounsaturated Fat
10
g
Sodium
120
mg
5
%
Potassium
284
mg
8
%
Carbohydrates
49
g
16
%
Fiber
3
g
13
%
Sugar
32
g
36
%
Protein
6
g
12
%
Vitamin A
57
IU
1
%
Vitamin C
1
mg
1
%
Calcium
46
mg
5
%
Iron
2
mg
11
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Notes
The nutrition information is for 10 bars, they are still quite large and that is why they are high in calories. Feel free to cut them smaller and adjust accordingly.
Could you please provide a nutritional breakdown for these bars? How many carbs and how many calories specifically? Thank you.
I added the info assuming 1 cup pistachios and 1 cup chocolate chips.
Salted or unsalted pistachios?
unsalted is best
The tahini in this recipe helps act as a binder and the reason it is called Halva bars is the flavor of the tahini and date honey together make the granola bar taste a bit like halva. So you could add crumbled halva to the recipe but you can’t use it to replace the tahini. You could use peanut butter or another nut butter and then crumble in the halva or if you are looking for recipes that use halva in that way check out this article and find recipes you can make with halvah <https://www.joyofkosher.com/recipes/dessert-recipes-that-use-halva-or-taste-like-halva/> .
I have chalva but not techina, can I shmush up the chalva and use it in place of techina and if yes how much would i use?
Silan for sure gives it the unique flavor, but yes any other liquid sugar should work, I am not a fan of using corn syrup, but if you go with something like that maybe mix it with molasses, the date syrup is actually similar in texture to molasses, but not quite as strong.
by me (5t) silan is very expensive. can i use honey or corn syrup instead?