Chocolate Granola. If you want a stickier granola, that will more easily clump together, you can up the brown sugar and maple syrup a bit, as I used the bare minimum in this recipe, but I think it's plenty sweet enough, especially if you're a fan of dark chocolate. We came up with another excuse to eat chocolate for breakfast. Classic oats, nuts, and sweetened coconut get mixed with a cocoa-honey syrup before baking in the oven.

I high recommend doubling the recipe as I made it as stated and it was gone in a day! I just can't say enough how wonderful this recipe is. The only change I made was using real butter instead of butter flavored spread. You can have Chocolate Granola using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chocolate Granola

Prepare 3 cups (300 g) of rolled oats.
You need 1/4 cup (25 g) of cocoa powder.
It's 2 tablespoon (30 g) of brown sugar.
It's 3/4 cup (105 g) of whole almonds.
You need 1/2 cup (65 g) of raw pumpkin seeds.
Prepare 1/2 cup (65 g) of sunflower seeds.
It's 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
You need 1/4 cup (60 ml) of water.
Prepare 1/4 cup (60 ml) of extra virgin olive oil (any flavorless oil, vegetable, canola, sunflower oil).
You need 1/3 cup (113 ml) of honey/dates syrup.
You need 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence.
Prepare 1/2 cup (87 g) of milk chocolate chips.

Sprinkle with the remaining turbinado sugar and coarse sea salt to taste. Healthy chocolate granola is very easy to make. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a medium pot set over low heat, combine the oil with the butter, brown sugar, honey, vanilla, cocoa powder and salt.

Chocolate Granola step by step

Preheat the oven to 170C (338F) and grease the baking tray with oil or butter..
In a large bowl add all the dried ingredients like rolled oats, almonds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, salt and cocoa powder. Mix everything well..
In another bowl add all the wet ingredients like, oil, honey, water, vanilla essence along with brown sugar and mix..
Now combine the wet and the dry ingredients together making sure everything is moistened; else granola might burn while baking..
Now spread the granola on the prepared baking tray and insert the tray in the middle rack of the oven and bake for around 35-40 minutes or until it turns golden brown, stirring every 15 minutes for even baking..
Once baked add the chocolate chips and let it cool down completely. Please note granola will be soft when it’s out from the oven, but once it begins to cool down it will turn crispy..
Store in an airtight container for upto 2 months..

Line a rimmed baking sheet with a piece of parchment paper and set aside. In a large bowl, mix together the oats, oil, syrup and salt. Add this Chocolate Granola to your cereal bowl, yogurt, ice cream or snack time because chocolate makes everything better. Each handful is made with clean and vegan ingredients with a share of ancient grains. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper, and set aside.