Healthy Homemade Granola
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Easy adaptable recipe with oats, dried fruit, nuts, seeds, honey and cinnamon.
Serves:10 servings
Ingredients
- 300 g traditional rolled oats (3 cups)
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
- 1 tbsp table chia seeds optional
- 1 tbsp wheat bran optional
- 50 g edible seeds of your choice, for example; pumpkin, sunflower, or pine nuts
- 50 g nuts for example; walnuts, almonds, pecans, almonds or hazelnuts
- 50 g dried fruit, for example; raisins, chopped, apricots, cranberries, dates, figs, or golden raisins
- ½ tsp cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice or vanilla
- ¾ tsp sea salt (fine)
- 60 ml maple syrup or honey (qtr cup)
- 60 ml light oil (olive oil) or coconut oil (qtr cup)
Instructions
- Measure out all the ingredients. Put everything except the dried fruit into a large bowl. It is intended to be a highly flexible recipe. I have highlighted the ingredients I used but please adapt the recipe to your store cupboard and your preferences.
- Whisk together the cinnamon, honey, salt and oil and pour all over your dry ingredients, stirring it well.
- Lay the mixture evenly on a lined baking tray and bake for 20 minutes at 150°C. Keep an eye on it - you want it lightly golden.
- Once out of the oven, mix in the dried fruit and press down with a back of a metal spatula to encourage it to form clumps. If it is not clumpy enough - drizzle over a little more honey and press down again. Leave to cool.
- When cool, store in an airtight jar for up to 2-4 weeks.
Notes
If you don't want to turn the oven on just to make granola - put it in an oven after baking something else with the oven turned off. It may take a little longer, but it is an excellent use of a cooling oven.
This recipe is intended as a guide so you can adapt it to your preferences. If you have a sweet tooth, you may want to add coconut flakes and use coconut oil; the flakes are best added halfway through as they tend to burn quickly. Pumpkin pie spice is fun in the autumn with maybe dried apple and maple syrup. The permutations are endless!
Getting granola to become clumpy without adding more honey/syrup is difficult. One trick is to mix egg white into the mixture before it goes into the oven. I have yet to try!
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