Ginger Pear Muesli is sweet with a kick of ginger. It makes a super quick breakfast or snack. Completely plant-based, oil-free, gluten-free, and fruit-sweetened.
When life gives you pears, make Ginger Pear Muesli. Or something like that...
I've had muesli on my list of recipes to develop for this blog for a long time now. But this muesli came as a happy accident.
I was planning to make a pear salad as a fun, fall-themed way to mix savory and sweet. I normally grocery shop on Fridays and do most of my recipe creation over the weekend, so one Friday I bought some pretty ripe pears at the grocery store. My goal was for the pears to be at the perfect degree of ripeness for my salad.
As ambitious as I am, I was already planning to cook and photograph about five recipes that weekend. So, as you can imagine, I ran out of time to make pear salad.
The week went by and I still hadn't made salad. The next weekend, I decided to pull out the pears to make salad. But, of course, my pears that were ripe a week beforehand were now super ripe. Yikes.
I decided to make some granola bars, similar to my Apple Pie Granola Bars and Peanut Butter Banana Breakfast Bars. I could use pears and make ginger pear granola bars. What a fun fall combination!
I started throwing some ingredients in my food processor: oats, pear, dates, almonds, spices. I processed the ingredients together. They hadn't quite formed a granola bar texture. I stopped to eat a spoonful and decide what I should add.
Then I had another spoonful. And another. And another after that.
This mixture was good! It tasted sweet. It had substance but it was also moist. I didn't want to stop eating.
So I stopped cooking! Who needs another granola bar recipe when you can make muesli?!
No, this is not the traditional muesli recipe. But yes, it's incredible and delicious and an amazing happy accident.
Before I go any farther down the road of telling you how cool this muesli is, I figure we should stop and chat about muesli.
Muesli is a breakfast cereal made with raw oats. It's basically like mixing raw oatmeal with other delicious add-ins. You can then mix it with milk, use it in overnight oats, eat it on top of a smoothie, or however you'd like.
Muesli always has raw oats, but the other ingredients are up to you. It can be dried fruit, nuts, seeds, etc.
Like I said, you can pretty much eat it however you'd like. I love making overnight oats with muesli or just eating it raw.
This muesli is a little different though. Normally, you'd be able to pre-mix the ingredients and let the mixture sit for days or weeks before you eat it. BUT we're actually using fresh pears in this muesli, so you'll want to eat it within a few days of making it. Let's jump into the ingredient list.
This recipe is a little bit like a mix of muesli and rawnola (aka raw granola). It has raw oats, just like muesli, but also raw pear which softens the oats a bit and creates nice clusters.
Just add all the ingredients to your food processor and blend/pulse until the oats are slightly broken up, the almonds are chopped, and the dates are in clumps.
Since the pear has a lot of liquid, the muesli won't stick together, but you should be able to eat it with a spoon.
Jesus, thank you for quick, easy, nourishing meals. Thank you for sweet surprises and creativity. Amen.
Like I mentioned, since this recipe has a fresh pear in it, you'll need to eat it within a few days of making it. If you don't want to eat all of it the day you make it, you can store it in the fridge.
I hope you enjoy!
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Ginger Pear Muesli is sweet with a kick of ginger. It makes a super quick breakfast or snack. Completely plant-based, oil-free, gluten-free, and fruit-sweetened.
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