Recipe: Tasty Homemade Granola

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Homemade Granola. Homemade granola, with toasted almonds, coconut, and oats, is perfect for sprinkling on yogurt or just snacking on by the handful. This recipe will give you granola with a familiar level of sweetness, but you can reduce the honey and oil by as much as half and still have excellent granola. Get as clumpy as you like.

Homemade Granola Would make again! would add some sesame seeds pumpkin seeds or other small nuts to add to the recipe. A simple granola recipe starts with oats, sweetener and oil. Use instant oats, and if you're sticking to a gluten-free meal plan , look for oats made in a facility without gluten products. You can cook Homemade Granola using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Homemade Granola

  1. It's 2 cups of porridge oats.
  2. Prepare 1/2 cup of chopped nut (Walnuts, Hazelnuts, Almonds).
  3. Prepare 1/4 cup of pumpkin seeds (or sunflower seeds).
  4. Prepare 1/2 cup of chopped sultanas (could add apricots, dates, raisins).
  5. Prepare 2 tbsp of Clear Honey.
  6. It's 2 tbsp of Coconut Oil.
  7. You need Pinch of sea salt.

Brown sugar is a granola staple but feel free to branch out. Toss the oats, coconut, and almonds together in a large bowl. Whisk together the oil and honey in a small bowl. In a large bowl, combine the oats, nuts, coconut, and brown sugar.

Homemade Granola instructions

  1. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and squidge it all through with clean hands. The heat from your hands melts the coconut oil. Scrape your hands with a spatula..
  2. Line 2 trays of a dehydrator and dry on 45°c for about 6 hours. Cool and store in airtight container for upto 1 month. You can spread on baking tray and put in oven 150°c for 10mins instead of dehydrator..
  3. At the same time I dehydrated a pineapple which I will chop up and add the the mix..

In a separate bowl, combine maple syrup, oil, and salt. Second, homemade granola tastes SO much better than the store-bought granola. You can taste what a big difference freshness makes, and it's staggering. And finally, homemade granola is much, much cheaper than store-bought granola. I can't help but think that people wouldn't buy it if they knew how easy it is to make it at home.