Homemade Muesli Bars with Five Ingredients

Instructions

• 1
  First, cut the dried fruit to the size of a hazelnut. If you are not using cocktail cherries or juicy dried plums, you need to soak the fruit overnight. Any juice will do - apple or orange, but essentially nothing will happen if it's just water.
• 2
  Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Heat a dry pan over medium heat. Pour in the nuts and, under constant supervision and occasional shaking, roast them until they start to smell. Pour them aside into a bowl and let them cool. Then chop them into coarser pieces.
• 3
  Wipe the used pan with a paper towel, pour in the oats, and toast them to a light golden color. Remember to stir, as burnt oats, like nuts, taste bitter.
• 4
  Line a baking dish approximately 25 x 15 cm with baking paper. Mix the roasted nuts and oats with flour and salt. If you soaked the fruit, drain it thoroughly and squeeze it a bit if such an action is required. Chop coarsely, add to the oats, pour in the honey, and mix in any way to form a strange, sticky, non-holding dough. Of course, it's best done with bare hands, but you would come to that conclusion yourself after trying three spoons, mixers, and whisks.
• 5
  Press the dough into the prepared baking dish. Yes, once again, bare human hands will serve you best, or the bottom of a glass coated with oil on the outside. Press carefully as much as your patience allows, and place in the preheated oven. Bake for 20-25 minutes.
• 6
  Remove from the oven and let cool completely in the baking dish. Grab the overhanging baking paper and transfer the sticky baked thing to a large cutting board. Only then cut into bars. Do not limit yourself to usual shapes; not only narrow rectangles are nice, but also triangles and squares.