Buckwheat bars are a delicious way to use up leftover cooked buckwheat. A tasty and healthy snack, you'll love these banana and blueberry buckwheat bars. Suitable for vegans.
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If you haven't cooked with buckwheat before then now is the time to try it.
It has a deeply savoury taste and is delicious in salads or instead of rice alongside stews and curries.
Cook up a batch of buckwheat and save any leftovers to make these tasty buckwheat bars for a snack that's:
- filling
- nutritious
- packed with fruit
- energy giving
- healthy.
What is buckwheat?
Buckwheat looks like a grain but is actually a seed, and despite its name is gluten free. (Check the packaging if you are gluten intolerant or coeliac to check it's certified gluten free).
It is eaten in Russia and many countries across Eastern Europe and Asia, and is rapidly gaining in popularity here in the UK.
It is also known as kasha.
Buckwheat can be bought and cooked in its whole form. But you might also see it used to make pasta and/or noodles (eg soba noodles). Take a look in your local health food shop.
What does buckwheat taste like?
Buckwheat has a distinctive, nutty taste.
Although it's a little unusual at first bite I've come to love the flavour and am increasingly using it in place of rice. In fact I much prefer it in a salad to rice.
Special diets
These buckwheat bars are:
- dairy free
- egg free
- vegan
- refined sugar free
- easily adapted to be gluten free - simply use gluten free oats
More buckwheat recipes
- Sweet potato salad with blueberries, walnuts and buckwheat
- Buckwheat salad with roasted vegetables by Searching for Spice
- Kale and red onion dhal with buckwheat by Easy Peasy Foodie
- Broccoli and buckwheat by Allotment 2 Kitchen
- Buckwheat macaroni cheese by Everyday Healthy Recipes
- Vegan mushroom and buckwheat shepherd's pie by Yumsome
- Buckwheat, cauliflower and chickpea salad by Cook Veggielicious
Ingredients
For full recipe, ingredients and quantities go to the printable recipe card at the end of this post.
To make these buckwheat bars you will need:
- 3 ripe bananas
- 115g cooked buckwheat
- 160g oats
- 30g raisins
- 100g blueberries
- a teaspoon vanilla extract
Equipment
To make these bars you'll need:
- 20x30cm (8x12 inch) baking tin*
- baking paper
- fork or masher*
- mixing bowl*
- wooden spoon*
How to make banana and blueberry buckwheat bars
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Banana and blueberry buckwheat bars
Equipment
- 20 x 30cm (8 x 12 inch) baking tin
- Masher or fork
Ingredients
- 3 ripe bananas
- 115 g cooked cold buckwheat roughly 40g dried buckwheat will equal this amount
- 160 g oats gluten free if needed
- 30 g raisins
- 100 g blueberries
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (fan)/200°C/400°F/gas mark 6. Grease a 20x30cm tin and line with baking paper.
- Mash 3 ripe bananas in a mixing bowl, then add 115g cooked buckwheat, 160g oats, 30g raisins, 100g blueberries and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Stir well.
- Scrape into the prepared tin and smooth over the top.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until the top is turning golden brown and the bars are firm to the touch.
- Transfer to a wire cooling rack and allow to cool completely before cutting into bars or squares.
Notes
Nutrition
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Eb Gargano
Love this idea - so healthy, but I bet super tasty!! I do agree that buckwheat is an acquired taste...but it's worth persevering as once you have acquired it, it's lovely and so full of goodness!! Thanks for linking up to #CookBlogShare 🙂 Eb x
Eb Gargano
P.S. Forgot to say - thanks for mentioning my dhal! 🙂
Mandy Mazliah
I like it more the more I have it - don't think I was at all keen the first time!
jacqui
Im not sure I would ever have left over buckwheat It's not an ingredient I use much but perhaps i should, These look tasty enough that I am tempted to cook some just to make them
Mandy Mazliah
Thanks Jacqui - I thought I'd better put in how much dry buckwheat you needed to cook up just in case!
Monika Dabrowski
I love the idea of using cooked buckwheat in an oat bars recipe! They sound really delicious with the fruit. Have a great Easter Weekend:)
Mandy Mazliah
Thanks Monika - they are definitely an unusual, but I think delicious, way to use buckwheat x
Jessica
Love these ideas! I am always looking out for new ways to use buckwheat!
Mandy Mazliah
Thanks Jessica!
Nat @ Intolerant Gourmand
My goodness, these sound yummy! Beautiful photos too! x #cookblogshare
Mandy Mazliah
Thank you so much hon x
Mel - Healing Gracie's Gut
These all sound yummy!
Mandy Mazliah
Thanks Mel!
Corina
I love the idea of using buckwheat in a bar. So far I've only added it to soups and salads so feel I need a bit of inspiration for different ways to use it and of course these are a great way of using up ripe bananas too. Thank you so much for mentioning my buckwheat salad x
Mandy Mazliah
Thanks Corina, it can be hard to know what to do with it, especially if you cook too much as I tend to and have it lurking in the fridge!