Recipe: Tasty Home-made granola (toasted muesli)

Home-made granola (toasted muesli). The three key elements for toasted muesli (granola) are oats, oil and a sweetener. You can mix up the rest to suit your taste. Great recipe for Home-made granola (toasted muesli).

I adapted this easy-to-make granola from the first Harrowsmith cookbook (I made a big reduction in butter and it still works). Because we have a houseful of people, I usually double the amounts shown here. If you feed a crowd, too, make sure you have a large enough pan. You can cook Home-made granola (toasted muesli) using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Home-made granola (toasted muesli)

1. You need 170 gr. of rolled oats.
2. It's 170 gr. of brown rice flakes (or spelt flakes, rye etc.).
3. It's 200 gr. of nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, cashew etc.).
4. Prepare 100 gr. of pumpkin and sesame seeds (or sunflower, linseed, flax...).
5. It's 100 gr. of dried fruit cranberries ( or apricots, dates, raisins, goji etc.).
6. It's 120 ml. of runny honey.
7. You need 40 ml of sunflower oil.

UPDATE: At an exchange student's request, we. High time I too started making my own granola… or toasted muesli (as is oft called in this part of the world). An adaptable recipe that includes oats, nuts, seeds and spices. Chocolate Probiotic Granola Gluten-Free, Sugar Free Grain-free Coconut Granola, or Pumpkin Spice- Toasted Coconut Granola GF, RSF - this one is perfect just in time for fall!

Home-made granola (toasted muesli) step by step

1. Chop the nuts.
2. Put all the dry ingredients into a large bowl.
3. Heat the oil and honey over a low heat, and when they are nicely blended, pour over the dry granola ingredients. Stir while heating and don't allow to get hot enough to bubble.
4. Mix very well with a spoon or with your hands.
5. Lightly grease your oven tray and fill with the granola. Smooth over with your hands so there are no gaps.
6. Put in the oven for 35 minutes at 150º. Each ten minutes, carefully take the tray out and stir around a bit..
7. After half an hour it should be ready to take out of the oven and left for 10 minutes or so in the tray to cool.
8. Put the granola into a bowl, add the dried fruit of your choice and stir well.
9. Store in an airtight jar and enjoy :-).

How to Enjoy Your Sugar Free Muesli. I love adding Muesli to yogurt as breakfast or a snack, or enjoying with some almond milk like regular cereal. Changes include: adding a method to make clumpy granola without adding more sweetener or fat, for the loose granola, adding the dried fruit at the end which ensures none of it burns (sometimes, some fruit on the surface can get a little too brown). Spread the oats, barley flakes, rye flakes, flaxseed meal, pumpkin seeds, almonds and hazelnuts on a large rimmed baking sheet and bake, stirring once, until. Mix all the dry ingredients, including the dried fruit, in a bowl until well combined.