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.

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 have Homemade granola using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Homemade granola

It's 1 cup of rolled oats.
You need 1 cup of walnut pieces broken into small chunks.
Prepare 1/2 cup of flaked almonds.
You need 1/4 cup of almonds, cut into small pieces.
It's handful of each of pine nuts, chia seeds, flax seeds, sunflower seeds.
It's 2 teaspoons of coconut oil, melted.
It's 2 teaspoons of honey (add more or less if you prefer it sweeter or not).

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

Mix all of the dry ingredients in a bowl.
Add the honey to the melted coconut oil and mix well.
Pour the oil over the nuts, oats and seeds and mix until coated. (If you put half your dry mix in a blender and whizz for a few seconds first, this will form some clusters when you add the oil.).
Pour into a large oven tray where you can spread it out thinly..
Place in the oven on 160˚ for 20 minutes, shaking half way through to ensure even cooking. Don't leave it too much longer as it will become too crisp and taste a little burnt!.

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.