Recipe: Granola

One of the things that I’m constantly amazed at is the price of granola. Basically it’s just oats, nuts and seeds right? Why so pricey? I recently found a recipe online at 100 days of real food and adapted it to my tastes. The difference? I don’t like it overly cinnamony, and I switch up the nuts/seeds depending on what’s on sale 😉

Ingredients:

• 3 cups Rolled Oats – these are the old fashioned oats, not the quick cook crappy oats!
• 1 cup raw sliced almonds
• 1 cup raw cashew pieces(or other nuts – my advice: use what’s on offer!)
• 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
• 1/2 cup raw sunflower seeds
• 2 tbspn ground flaxseeds
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 6 tablespoons butter (unsalted)
• 1/2 cup honey
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• Also needed: Parchment paper

 

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 250 degrees – don’t go higher, you’ll burn the granola!
• Put the nuts in a blender and whizz up till lightly chopped, I don’t like HUGE pieces of nuts in my granola, you can skip this step if you buy the nut pieces rather than whole nuts!
• Add all the dry ingredients into a bowl and mix

You can see from this photo, I added hemp and sesame seeds to this batch!

•  Heat the butter in a small pan

• When butter melts add the honey and stir until mix in thoroughly

 

 

• Add butter/honey mixture to dry ingredients, mix together with spatula

• Spread mixture onto pan prepared with parchment paper. Bake for 75 minutes. It will become crisp as it cools when you can crumble into pieces and store in zip-lock bag or other container. Stores for 2-4 weeks in air tight container at room temperature.

Enjoy either as cereal with milk or as topping for yogurt and other desserts!