Someone is used to eating scrambled eggs with sausage for breakfast, someone - a sandwich, someone - milk porridge from semolina. But after a night's rest, in order to start life, the human body still prefers low-fat carbohydrate foods. In this regard, with pieces of fruit and nuts - the best option. How to cook muesli for breakfast is described in this article.

DIY

Of course, it is easiest to buy ready-made muesli in the store. They are sold in abundance in huge modern supermarkets. There are domestic production, there are also imported ones (a little more expensive, but not necessarily better). But how to cook muesli on your own? You can try to make this product with your own hands: it will be tastier and cheaper.

Base - oatmeal

Quite a lot has been written about in the morning. This theme is played up both in literary works and in films (what is, for example, the famous “oatmeal, sir”)!

There is a great deal of truth in this, since oatmeal itself perfectly cleanses the intestines and rids the body of the so-called toxins. This also affects the appearance. With the constant use of oatmeal in the morning by a person, his skin and hairline begin to literally shine with health.

In the notes of Pliny that have come down to us (the beginning of our era), it is said that at that time oatmeal was very popular. The thing is that oats are digested for a long time. Thus, it provides our body with nutrition and energy for a long time. By the way, buckwheat porridge has the same properties. Oats also contain fiber. It lowers cholesterol in the blood, cleanses the intestines, prevents the formation of blood clots.

About the benefits of the product

Muesli, containing in large quantities, which are rather slowly digested, contribute to a feeling of satiety for a long time. Because of this, they are actively eaten by those who want to lose weight. Nutritionists also advocate the use of muesli, since with each meal the body must receive the necessary complex of amino acids and vitamins. All this is in sufficient quantities in this product.

home production

How to cook muesli on your own? This is not at all difficult to do. To do this, take oatmeal, such as Hercules, and fry them to such a state that they crunch when eaten. This is the basis of our muesli, homemade, homemade, delicious. For a pack (400 grams) of oatmeal, add: half a glass of peeled sunflower seeds, half a glass of peeled and crushed walnuts, half a glass of raisins, a handful of finely chopped dried fruits. We mix everything thoroughly. Homemade muesli is ready to eat.

Variations on a theme

Alternatively, you can use a mixture of raisins, dried apricots, walnuts, prunes (add honey and lemon to taste). All ingredients must be passed through a meat grinder. Do not boil this vitamin mixture, do not pour boiling water over it, as this reduces its useful properties. Every morning, mix it with oatmeal in a one-to-one ratio, pouring hot milk over it. Great boost of energy for the whole day!

How to cook muesli at home? Instead of oatmeal, you can use other types of buckwheat, corn. Add any pieces of fresh fruit to taste to the mass: bananas, cranberries, cherries, strawberries, gooseberries, for example. With nuts, things are no worse: you can use any kind of available. But sugar for cooking is not required at all. You can easily do without it, successfully replacing it with honey.

How to cook muesli?

This is a very democratic dish. It is eaten for breakfast, as they say, by both the old and the young, and the poor and the rich. And if you still decide to buy muesli in the store, then you don’t need them at all in a special way like muesli with milk? It is enough just to open the box or bag and pour the mixture into a plate. Then pour hot milk so that it covers the contents, wait a minute or two and consume (preferably for breakfast). You can also fill muesli with fruit yoghurts - it comes out very tasty.

How to cook muesli on water? Likewise! Muesli does not need to be boiled. It is enough to pour them with boiling water in a plate, cover tightly and wait a couple of minutes. That's appetizing and healthy, ready!

Select exemplary tried-and-true recipes for muesli bars on a boring gastronomic resource site. Add a variety of seeds and nuts, dried fruits, fruits and berries, chocolate to the composition. Create an energy treat with your own hands!

When preparing bars, oatmeal is most often taken as the basis. If desired, they can add wheat, barley, rye, buckwheat. And raisins, dried apricots, prunes, dates, berries and fruits, seeds and nuts will help to diversify and decorate the taste. Chocolate is often found in recipes. Bars can be baked or raw. Everything will depend only on the imagination and personal preferences of the cook.

The five most commonly used ingredients in muesli bar recipes are:

Interesting recipe:
1. Place cereal, seeds, chopped nuts and raisins in a deep container.
2. Cut dried apricots and dates (pitted) into medium-sized pieces. Add to cereal and seed mixture.
3. Grind fresh berries (blackberries, strawberries) in a blender.
4. Coarsely grate the apple, mix with berry puree.
5. Combine berry-fruit mix with dry ingredients.
6. Place oil and honey in a saucepan. Heat until syrupy (do not boil!).
7. Combine the syrup with the main mixture. Mix.
8. Cover the baking dish with parchment.
9. Lay out and carefully compact the prepared mass.
10. Bake for about half an hour at 150 ° until golden brown.
11. Remove the product from the oven. Cool down a bit.
12. Pour in melted chocolate. Decorate as desired.
13. Remove for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.
14. Cut the finished layer into convenient bars.

Five of the fastest muesli bar recipes:

Helpful Hints:
. Bars can be eaten for breakfast or taken with you as a snack.
. In order for the bars not to crumble, they can be cut while still hot.

Muesli is the most common dish on the menu of people involved in sports and those who want to lose weight, along with dishes from cottage cheese or chicken breast.

Somehow I didn’t have time to describe my version of making muesli, but I have secrets, so I’ll tell you step by step in detail.

There are a lot of muesli recipes, today a variant with dogwood.

Products

• Oat flakes large - 60 g
• Sugar - 5 g
• Brazil nuts - 10 g
• Peeled pistachios - 10 g
• Dried apples - 10 g
• Dried dogwood - 10 g
• Ground cinnamon - a pinch (at the tip of a knife)

Products for one large serving or two snacks.

Cinnamon gives the finished muesli a very pleasant aroma.

How to cook muesli

First you need to caramelize muesli: pour oatmeal into a dry non-stick frying pan without oil and add 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar (5 g). You need large oatmeal, from a pack on which it is written: cook for 10-20 minutes. If you take a small one, there is a lot of flour in it, it will start to burn and you will not get beautiful golden flakes. If fried without sugar, the flakes are crumbly, less crispy, with a lot of burnt dust.

If you do not stir the oatmeal constantly, the sugar will stick together in lumps. If you fry without sugar, there will be a lot of burnt flour.

We put the pan with oatmeal on a small burner over medium heat. Stirring constantly, fry the flakes. At the same time, we regulate the fire - at first it is stronger, but as soon as the sugar begins to melt, we reduce it. The color should become slightly golden, the sugar will completely melt and be distributed evenly from constant stirring. All this takes 4-5 minutes.

Nuts are one of the most contaminated foods, do not be too lazy to blanch them for 2-5 minutes before use.

Nuts are invariably included in muesli, but it is important to buy high-quality, fresh and clean. I didn’t buy packaged, but loose, so be sure to blanch for 2 minutes in boiling water. You can’t remove aflatoxins by boiling, but the mold itself (which may not be noticeable) and many pathogens die (you never know where these nuts lay, which mice crawled, and who touched them). Those. boil the nuts, drain the water, lightly dry the nuts in a hot frying pan or in a napkin. In addition, blanched nuts become softer, easily cut into thin petals. Blanching walnuts reduces bitterness.

Fresh, quality nuts are the right color: brazil nuts are the color of baked milk, pistachios are green. Spoiled nuts that have lain down (from last year's harvest) are gray or brown in color, it is better to throw them away immediately, they can be poisoned.

We cut everything finely or large - as you like. I cut apples and dried dogwood finely. Dogwood - it is dried (dried), and not candied fruit. Chop nuts with a knife, large ones, like Brazilian ones, can be cut into petals.

If dried apples are very dry and not cut, you can put them in a sieve and hold over steam for 5 minutes. Finely chop and then dry again. And only dried add to muesli.

Dried dogwood is much healthier than raisins: it contains 1.45 times less sugar, much more iron (22% of the daily requirement) and vitamin C (50%).

It remains to mix all the ingredients, they are ready to use. If you cook muesli with a margin, then it is better to store them in a cardboard box, in a cloth bag or roll up a parchment bag. In a dry place, muesli can be stored for several months. If you plan to add fresh fruit to muesli, then naturally, you need to do this before use, or immediately freeze it.

What do you eat muesli with?

Muesli can be seasoned with kefir, poured with milk, fermented baked milk or yogurt.

Muesli can be eaten dry, I know that many people are able to gnaw them like seeds. Can be filled with milk, yogurt or kefir. I usually do it with fat-free kefir - for 100 g of kefir, 35 g of muesli (2 tablespoons).

Store ready-made muesli only in a dry place, the optimum temperature for long-term storage is not higher than 15 degrees, and the humidity is not higher than 60%.

And you can make dessert from muesli:

• 1 jar of yogurt
• 70 g ice cream (without waffle cup),
• 50 g homemade muesli

In terms of composition, as I said, muesli can be very different, here I will give the calorie content for a specific option with dogwood and Brazil nuts.

In terms of calories and total weight: After caramelizing, toasting oatmeal, they lose very little weight. But when I cook muesli, I still recalculate the calorie content, it is rather big, more than 350 kcal per 100 g.

Nutritional value of products per 100 g of weight:

Homemade muesli with dogwood, nutritional value.

Today we will look at the simplest and most delicious and healthy muesli recipes at home.

Cereals, fruits and nuts

Muesli at home without interference

Does everyone know what muesli is? For those who have been dealing with weight loss for a long time, this is not a secret. People who do not know about muesli, but who are active in life, can easily find the necessary information on the Internet. This article is intended for those who are too lazy to do extra movements, but still want to lose weight. If you are one of them, just read this article - and perhaps it will move you to great things.

So what is muesli?

• The name comes from the German "mus", meaning "mashed potatoes". Muesli was invented by the Swiss doctor Maximilian Bercher-Benner in 1900. They were intended for hospital patients, since their diet should include vegetables and fruits.
• There are two types of muesli - raw and baked. Their composition is similar, since the main ingredients are flakes (oat, buckwheat, barley, wheat, rye, corn - both separately and in combination with each other), dried fruits, seeds and nuts. If raw muesli can be consumed immediately after mixing the components, then baked muesli requires additional processing: they are not only mixed together, but also supplemented with natural juices, honey and a small amount of vegetable oils, and then baked at a low temperature. Baked muesli is usually sweeter than fresh muesli, it lasts longer and can be prepared ahead of time. Moreover, when using baked muesli, they can be mixed with fresh fruits and berries - they will only benefit from this.
• Muesli is very useful, as it consists of the right products, rich in fiber, vegetable proteins, vitamins and trace elements.
• Homemade muesli is preferable to store-bought muesli because you only use ingredients you know are good quality, which you can't say about store-bought muesli. In addition, you can vary the composition of homemade muesli according to your tastes, and in store-bought muesli you will eat what they gave you. And, usually, store-bought muesli uses too much sugar, which creates a sweet addiction in you and will not do you any good.

And now muesli recipes at home.

Homemade dietary muesli

This is a muesli recipe that is cooked like baked but eaten raw. In general, for an amateur.

Cooking:

• Pour 300 ml (we take by volume, not by weight) of slow-cooking oatmeal onto a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, level it and send it to the oven, preheated to 190 degrees. Bake until golden brown and leave to cool.
• Meanwhile, on another baking sheet, also covered with parchment paper, lay out half a glass of various nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds) and peeled sunflower seeds, flatten and roast in a hot oven. Also cool, and then peel off excess husks. Large nuts can be cut into pieces. Cooled cereals and nuts, put in a container and mix.
• Use as needed, the rest can be stored. Muesli can be topped with milk or yogurt. A delicious and healthy breakfast will energize you for the whole day.

KBJU per 100 g: proteins - 15.19; fats - 37.76; carbohydrates - 34.91; calorie content - 525.57.

Muesli recipes at home: video

Muesli recipes at home. baked granola

Don't let the unfamiliar word granola scare you - these are the same baked muesli, only they are called differently.

Cooking:

• Pour two glasses of oatmeal into a sufficiently large container, one glass of a mixture of nuts and seeds (almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, sesame and coconut - it is advisable to crush large nuts into medium-sized pieces) and mix everything. Add there three tablespoons of sunflower oil, five tablespoons of agave syrup and mix again.
• We spread the resulting mass on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, level it and send it to the oven, heated to 150 degrees. We hold for 20-25 minutes, then mix the mixture, level and bake for another 10 minutes.
• We take out the finished granola, let it cool, add to it a third of a teaspoon of cinnamon and a mixture of dried fruits (cut into pieces dates, mulberries, goji berries, chia seeds and coconut petals - you can replace exotic ingredients with more familiar ones). Again, we mix everything and pour it into a bowl in which we will store granola, consuming it as needed in the right amount. Delicious and healthy dish!

KBJU per 100 g: proteins - 9.87; fats - 24.04; carbohydrates - 46.43; calorie content - 435.0.

How to make granola at home: video

Homemade muesli (granola) recipes - a healthy crunchy recipe

Here is another original recipe.

• In a large bowl, add 2 cups oatmeal, 1 cup chopped walnuts, 1 cup cashews, 1 cup chopped almonds to medium size, 1 cup chocolate chips (drops), 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon salt. mix everything thoroughly.
• Add half a glass of honey, one tablespoon of sunflower oil - mix again. Add a quarter cup of sesame seeds, a quarter cup of sunflower seeds and mix again. Pour the resulting mass into a baking dish, level it and send it to the oven, preheated to 165 degrees, for 30-40 minutes.
• Stir the granola every 10 minutes. When the time is up, cool the finished mixture. Granola can be added to milk, yogurt or kefir. Try!

KBJU per 100 g: proteins - 12.4; fats - 37.15; carbohydrates - 38.18; calorie content - 528.6.

Video recipe for homemade granola:

Homemade Muesli Recipes with Dried Fruits - Swiss National Breakfast

And this is a recipe from the homeland of muesli - Switzerland.

• Pour half a glass of orange juice (preferably freshly prepared), one tablespoon of olive oil and one tablespoon of honey into a mixing container and stir to dissolve the honey. This is a "refill". Pour two glasses of oatmeal into another container and a third of a glass of pumpkin seeds, chopped walnuts and sunflower seeds. Stir and pour our “dressing” there and mix again.
• We lay out the finished mixture on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, level it and put it in the oven, heated to 180 degrees, for 40 minutes. Stir the mixture every 10 minutes. And while it is baking, put in a separate bowl a third of a glass of dried and chopped kumquats (these are small citrus fruits, which are also called fortunella or kinkan), dried cranberries and dried apricots cut into pieces.
• We mix - it turned out a very elegant bright mixture. Cool the baked oatmeal and mix with dried fruits. Now you can pour the finished granola into a resealable dish and use it as needed. In this form, it can be stored for a month or two.

KBJU per 100 g: proteins - 9.57; fats - 18.04; carbohydrates - 40.21; calorie content - 352.78.

Video master class on cooking granola:

Muesli recipes at home. Granola - healthy breakfast

After all, granola is a tasty and healthy breakfast, moreover, which is quickly prepared (if it is prepared in advance). That is, granola must first be prepared and put into a sealed container for storage, and directly for breakfast you just need to take the right amount of granola, pour milk, yogurt or kefir and let stand for 5 minutes - and breakfast is ready!

Cooking:

• To prepare granola, take 3 cups of regular oatmeal and pour it onto a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. We level the flakes and send them to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 15 minutes. Stir the flakes every five minutes so that they fry evenly.
• While the cereal is roasting, prepare the syrup. Mix five tablespoons of honey with one tablespoon of cinnamon in a bowl, pour half a glass of warm water and stir until smooth. We take out the toasted flakes from the oven, pour them into a bowl and cool, and then pour over them with the prepared syrup. We mix everything thoroughly, lay it out again on a baking sheet with parchment paper and send it to a preheated oven for 25 minutes.
• Stir the flakes again every five minutes. Before the last five minutes, add two tablespoons of flax seeds, half a glass of raisins, a glass of dried cranberries and a glass of dried cherries to the cereal. Mix everything and put in the oven for the last five minutes. We take out the finished granola from the oven, let it cool and put it in a closed container. Store granola in the refrigerator and use within two weeks.

KBJU per 100 g: proteins - 4.43; fats - 3.8; carbohydrates - 64.97; calorie content - 297.69.

Video recipe: Granola with flax seeds and cherries

Muesli bar

Muesli bar is rightfully considered one of the most popular delicious diet treats.

He won this right due to his merits:

• Excellent taste qualities.
• It is not expensive to prepare, as it consists of components with a small price and in small quantities.
• A small calorie content that you can choose for yourself individually when cooking.
• Despite the low calorie content, it is very nutritious.
• It contains everything that the body needs for proper functioning: amino acids, vitamins and minerals.
• When you can choose for yourself your favorite composition of the bar.
• A small bar is able to maintain a feeling of satiety for a long time, as muesli is digested for a long time.
• When stored, it does not require any special conditions.
• Thanks to its compact size, it is convenient to take it on the road.

How is this wonderful dish prepared?

• Grind with a knife two tablespoons of almonds, two tablespoons of hazelnuts, two tablespoons of pecans (if not, you can replace with walnuts) and two tablespoons of dried cherries. Pour everything into a bowl, add two tablespoons of sunflower seeds and two glasses of oatmeal to them. We mix.
• We peel the banana, break it into pieces and put it in a blender bowl. There we also send an apple cut into pieces and freed from seeds. We beat with a blender. After that, add one teaspoon of vanilla extract (you can replace half a teaspoon of vanillin), a quarter teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of cinnamon, one tablespoon of honey to the bowl and beat again with a blender. Those with a sweet tooth can add a couple of tablespoons of cane sugar, but it will still be sweet without it.
• Pour the liquid mixture into the dry mixture and stir. We spread everything on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, level it, tamp it down and send it to the oven, heated to 180 degrees, for 20 minutes. We take out the finished muesli from the oven and let it cool completely, after which we free them from the paper and cut them into small bars. We wrap each bar in a beautiful wrapper and send them to the refrigerator. And maybe for sale!

KBJU per 100 g: proteins - 7.26; fats - 16.31; carbohydrates - 34.1; calorie content - 305.21.

How to make muesli bars at home: video

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One of the latest health food innovations is muesli for breakfast, which can be prepared in a wide variety of variations. You can use healthy supplements in the form of dried fruits, flax seeds, or amaranth or rye bran. What is it and how to cook muesli? The article provides original breakfast recipes and several ideas for making desserts from this product.

What is muesli?

Initially, muesli was a complex food consisting of cereals, nuts, berries and various dried fruits. You can cook them yourself, or you can buy them ready-made. Fortunately, now they are produced in a variety of forms: packaged in packages, with nut additives, dietary and even high-calorie for sports nutrition.

History of occurrence

According to history, the concept of this product was developed by Dr. Bircher-Benner. While traveling in the Alpine mountains, he met a local resident who appeared to be about 40 years old, he looked cheerful and fresh. Upon learning that the man was over 70 years old, the Swiss doctor was very surprised and decided to find out what was his secret to maintaining youth. The old man treated him to an unusual treat: it was raw whole grains mixed with fruits and candied fruits. The doctor appreciated all the benefits of this dish and decided to conduct an experiment with his patients. For a month, they ate cereals with fruits at their first meal. The result was excellent: the patients underwent changes, their condition improved, their health improved. The doctor wrote a whole report on the beneficial effects of muesli on the gastric mucosa. In 1870, an American physician and entrepreneur created the first corn flakes for breakfast, and ran an extensive advertising campaign aimed at agitating for a healthy lifestyle.

How to cook muesli?

The process of preparing this product depends on its production, if the muesli is purchased, then it will not be difficult to cook them. Ready-made muesli bought in the store must be removed from the package and poured into a cup. As a filler, you can choose whatever your heart desires: both milk and yogurt are suitable, and those who are losing weight can add low-fat kefir.

In stores, you can find a huge selection of different options for this wonderful breakfast: cereals, muesli with additives, low-calorie dry cereals with whole grains and seeds. Each of them has its own signature cooking recipe, following which you can get the perfect breakfast.

Overview of muesli manufacturers

There are many companies involved in the production of wholesome food for a healthy diet. Among them are both foreign and domestic. In many ways, they are united by the process of making muesli for breakfast. So, the most popular types of product:

• Ordinary oatmeal with the addition of nuts and dried fruits such as raisins, dried apricots, prunes, etc.
• Diet muesli with rye and barley flakes, flax or amaranth seeds. As an additional source of dietary fiber, some manufacturers, such as the Lux Versiya company, add bran to muesli, and replace sugar with honey or natural syrup.
• Muesli bars have become a real find for those who do not have enough time for a full meal, a couple of bars replace a meal and make up for all energy costs.
• Recently, vegetable muesli has also appeared for fans of healthy eating and vegetarianism.

Here is what the top five leaders in the production and sale of muesli products look like: Nestle Russia, which offers a special line of Fitness products, the Lyubyatovo trademark, the Uvelka company, the Europrestige RK, which produces not only breakfasts, but also various supplements and healthy food products under the OGO! brand.

Muesli of own production

Many people consciously refuse to buy certain types of goods and products, preferring to cook them at home. There are enough reasons for this: some do not trust manufacturers, others do not like the composition of the product, because now almost every product contains elements of chemical origin, be it preservatives, flavorings or “E” additives that frighten everyone. For those who decide not to buy muesli in the store, but still want to eat healthy, we offer a great solution: you can cook muesli at home. They will not yield ready-made either in quality or in taste!

How to cook muesli at home? First you need to choose the right ingredients. Oatmeal or barley is best as a base, then we clean the selected nuts (hazelnuts, walnuts, peanuts, almonds or candied fruits), add them to the cup with the base. Dried fruits should be washed off with warm water, and then poured into muesli. The best combination is raisins, walnut pieces, dried pineapple and a natural sweetener (flower honey makes a great sugar substitute). You should correctly select the right proportion of ingredients, and then you get an excellent healthy breakfast, which also has an amazing taste!

Original recipe: muesli bars

To prepare a healthy snack, we need the following set of products: dried fruits (dried apricots, raisins, prunes) - 40 g; nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, cashews) - 40 g; thin oatmeal - 80 g; banana - 1 medium size, a little sugar, sesame, rast. oil and sunflower seeds.

Step 1. Prepare dried fruits, cut them into small cubes.

Step 2. Chop the nuts into large pieces.

Step 3. Pass the banana well through a blender, add 10 g of sugar, a pinch of salt, a spoonful of rast. oil and stir again.

Step 4. Mix dried fruits, a mixture of nuts and oatmeal in a cup, then add banana gruel to them.

Step 5. Spread muesli on parchment in an even layer about 1.5 cm wide. Send to a preheated oven for 10 minutes, bake at a temperature of 180-190 ° C.

The cooled muesli can be cut into portioned cubes and wrapped in small bags. You can take them with you anywhere, because this is the most healthy and delicious snack! Now you know how to cook muesli, and you can please yourself and your loved ones with this dish.