Crunchy Granola Bars

Name: Crunchy Granola Bars
Yield: Makes 36 bars
Ingredients: 7 cups (21 ounces), old-fashioned rolled oats; 1/2 cup, vegetable oil; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 3/4 cup, honey; 3/4 cup packed (5 1/4 ounces), light brown sugar; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract; 2 teaspoons, ground cinnamon (optional); 1 1/2 cups, almonds, pecans, peanuts, or walnuts, chopped coarse

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Desserts or Baked Goods

SERVESMakes 36 bars

TIME1¾ hours, plus 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We found that toasting the oats with a little oil and salt before mixing them with the other ingredients really deepened their flavor. Honey provided plenty of stickiness to hold the bars together. We kept the other flavors simple: a little...

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