Homemade Granola

Homemade Granola — this Homemade Granola recipe is loaded with oats, nuts, dried fruits and sweetened with honey. Perfect for a healthy breakfast or even snack.

Looking for the ultimate healthy vegan breakfast? This homemade granola is what you need. We love granola at home and we have it almost every day for breakfast with yogurt and a variety of toppings and add-on like bananas, fresh strawberries and all kind of different berries.

The supermarket shelves are filled with all types of packed granola bags and boxes. Many of them are great. Nonetheless, why buy ready–made ones when you can make your own in 5 minutes and let the oven do the rest of the work for you?

I like to make my own granola with the finest ingredients I can find, keeping a tab on added sugar or sweetener.
You can make granola in batches and store it in clamp jars for weeks.

I find organic, whole-grain rolled oats the perfect choice for this recipe.

Ingredients Needed:

You need a handful of ingredients to make this recipe; however, it all depends on what you like. A balanced mix of oats, seeds, nuts and dried fruits yields a great granola.

For this particular recipe I used organic, whole-grain rolled oats, rice puffs, unsalted cashews, slivered almonds, chia seeds and pumpkin seeds. I use 4 tablespoons of raw honey to sweeten it but blue agave syrup or maple syrup works too. I also use coconut oil for flavor and to avoid granola from clumping and spice it all with a bit of cinnamon, salt, shredded coconuts and dried tart cherries or raisins.

How to Make Homemade Granola

Preheat the oven to 350F (180C). Then, line a large baking sheet (12-inch x 17-inch) with parchment paper.

In a large bowl mix together your oats, puffed rice and all the different seeds you are using. After that, add your cashews, slivered almonds, chia seeds and pumpkin seeds.

Add the cinnamon powder and a pinch of salt and mix well.

Pour your choice of honey, agave, or maple syrup and the coconut oil over the dry ingredients and mix lightly. The honey and coconut oil help the oat mixture to clump a little bit.

After that, transfer the oat mixture to the baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes stirring half way through to ensure toasting from all sides.

Remove from oven and add dried cherries, raisins, coconut or any type of dried fruits you prefer.

I store my granola in clamp jars for a week to ten days and use it for breakfast on my yogurt with fresh fruits and a drizzle of honey.

You can turn this granola into bars too! Once you add the dried fruits, press them firmly into the oat mixture on the baking sheet and let the granola cool completely. Then you can cut it into desired-size bars.

What to Have with Granola

Homemade Granola is great with:

• Greek Yogurt
• Milk or any vegan milk like Oat, almond or coconut milk
• Also try it with my Grilled Peach with Passion Fruit recipe.

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