Friday, 14 May 2010

Apricot Bars



Ingredients:
Dried apricots,chopped-175g
Unsweetened orange juice-4tbsp
Margarine,melted-6tbsp
Honey-6tbsp
Semolina flour or fine semolina-50g
Plain flour-125g+2tbsp

Method:
1.Cook chopped apricots with orange juice in a pan and simmer for 5 minutes,drain if the juice is not absorbed by the fruit.
2.Heat the margarine and honey in a pan until melted,add semolina and plain flour and mix well.
3.Lightly grease a small square cake tin or loaf tin,press half of the semolina mixture into the base of the prepared tin.
4.Spoon on the fruit mixture evenly and top with the remaining semolina mixture,covering the fruit completely.
5.Bake at 200'C/400'F/Gas6 for 35minutes until risen and golden brown.
6.Cool for 5 minutes in the tin, then cut into bars,again leave the bars to cool on a wire rack completely and serve.