Blueberry Oatmeal Bars
This recipe for Blueberry Oatmeal Bars makes a 9x13 pan full of Blueberry Bars, perfect for lunches or enjoying with a nice hot cup of coffee. Crunchy bar on the bottom, tempting fruit filling, and a light crumble on top, what could better?
Servings: 24 bars
Ingredients
- 2 cups of flour
- 2 cups of quick cook oats
- 1 1/3 cups of brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- pinch salt
- 1 cup butter
- 4 cups blueberries picked over to remove stems
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup Sugar possibly more if your berries aren't too sweet
- 4 TBSP flour
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350˚ Make the Crust/Topping:
- mix the dry ingredients together
- cut the butter in chunks and drop it in the dry mix, cut in with a pastry blender or two knives, or use your hands mix it in
- keep mixing until it's looks like coarse crumbs
- save off 1 cup of crumbs
- press the rest in the bottom of a 9X13 baking dish
- Make the blueberry filling
- put the blueberries, water, and sugar in a saucepan
- bring it to a boil over medium high heat, it will get very juicy as it cooks
- once it comes to a boil reduce the heat to keep it from scorching, just keep it bubbling lightly until the blueberries start to pop
- TASTE for Sweetness--take a small spoonful, cool it off and taste it, if it needs more sugar, add some now this recipe can accommodate up to 1 full cup of sugar
- remove 2/3 cup of the juice and whisk in the flour into it
- add it back in the pan and stir until thickened, cook and stir for 1-2 minutes and remove from the heat (you just made blueberry gravy!)
- spread the blueberry mix over the base layer in the 9X13, sprinkle with reserved crumbs
- bake for 30-35 minutes until top is lightly brown and the blueberries are bubbly
- let them cool before you cut it for best results