Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, granola. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Granola is a breakfast food and snack food consisting of rolled oats, nuts, honey or other sweeteners such as brown sugar, and sometimes puffed rice, that is usually baked until it is crisp, toasted and golden brown. Follow this recipe to learn how to make easy and healthy homemade granola. If you love granola, you need to try this easy recipe, much healthier than store.
Granola is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Granola is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook granola using 22 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Granola:
- Get "dry ingredients"
- Prepare 7 cups old fashioned oats
- Make ready 1 cup wheat bran
- Get 1 cup flax meal
- Prepare "flavorings"
- Get 1/4 cup canola, coconut or olive oil
- Get 1/4 cup applesauce
- Prepare 1/2 cup brown or raw sugar
- Prepare 1/2 cup honey or agave
- Make ready 1/2 cup water
- Make ready 2 teaspoons turmeric
- Take 1 tablespoon vanilla, maple or almond extract
- Make ready 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- Get 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- Take 1 teaspoon salt
- Get "nuts, seeds & fruits"
- Make ready 1 cup broken walnuts
- Get 1 cup broken pecans
- Get 1/2 cup raw pumpkin seeds
- Make ready 1/2 cup raw sunflower seeds
- Make ready 1 cup chopped dates
- Take 1 cup raisins or dried cranberries
Steps to make Granola:
- Preheat oven to 275° F or 135° C
- Mix oats, bran & flax in a large roasting pan.
- Whisk the "flavorings" together and then drizzle over the oat mixture. Stir until evenly moist.
- Bake for 1-1/2 hours – stirring every 15 minutes.
- After the third stirring, add the "nuts, seeds & fruits".
- Bake for an additional 15 minutes.
- Allow to cool completely. Store in an airtight container.
- NOTE: I have experimented with the balance and quantities of the fats and sugars. As I reduced the fat, the texture went from crunchy to chewy. I did not have success with less than 1/4 cup of fat. I have also sometimes replaced the more processed sugars with unsweetened frozen juice concentrate.
- Serving size - 1/4 cup
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