Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Chocolate Granola

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Chocolate Granola. Check Out Top Brands On eBay. 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. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper, and set aside.

Chocolate Granola Classic oats, nuts, and sweetened coconut get mixed with a cocoa-honey syrup before baking in the oven. Tossing chocolate covered raisins, almonds, and cranberries with the warm granola transforms the humble oat mixture into decadent. Sprinkle with the remaining turbinado sugar and coarse sea salt to taste. You can cook Chocolate Granola using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chocolate Granola

  1. You need 75 ml of vegetable oil.
  2. Prepare 125 ml of honey or golden syrup.
  3. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
  4. Prepare 2 tbsp of unsweetened good quality cocoa powder.
  5. It's 6 pieces of 70% dark chocolate.
  6. It's of good pinch salt.
  7. You need 300 g of rolled oats or a mixture of oats and oatmeal.
  8. It's 300 g of nuts and seeds; slivered almonds, sunflower seeds, cashew nuts (broken up) etc.
  9. Prepare 2-3 tbsp of demerara sugar.

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. Line a rimmed baking sheet with a piece of parchment paper and set aside.

Chocolate Granola instructions

  1. Warm the oil, honey, chocolate and salt in a pan until the chocolate has melted..
  2. Measure the oats, nuts, seeds and sugar together in a bowl. Preheat the oven to 160C/Gas 2..
  3. Pour the oil and chocolate mixture into the bowl of oats and nuts and mix together really well..
  4. Line a roasting tray with baking parchment, use two if you don't have a large one, the granola needs to be spread thinly enough to toast evenly..
  5. Bake for 15 minutes, then remove from the oven and gently mix. I use the paper to pile the granola in the middle then re-spread it all out. Return to the oven for 10 minutes more, but keep a close eye and check after 5, you don't want it to scorch even slightly..
  6. You want the nuts to be golden coloured. It will crisp at it cools, so if it's still a little chewy it doesn't mean its not had enough cooking time, and remember you can always put it back in..
  7. Leave to cool completely before transferring to an airtight container. You can use the paper again to just pour it in. Serve with ice cold milk..

In a large bowl, mix together the oats, oil, syrup and salt. This is exactly the chocolate granola recipe I've been looking for. 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.