Healthy Homemade Granola

February 27, 2022

25 minutes

easy

16

Skip the overpriced, over-sweet granola section at the store and DIY your own endlessly customizable granola at home! This simple recipe takes just 30 mins and one bowl/one pan – plus you can make your favorite flavor combos or use up dried fruit and nuts you have on hand! Perfect for a satisfying snack, to top oatmeal, or yogurt parfaits too.

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Ingredients

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	4 cups old fashioned oats
	1 1/2 cups cups nuts or seeds any mix of almonds, walnuts, pecans, peanuts, macadamia, pumpkin seeds
	1/2 cup coconut or canola oil
	1/2 cup real maple syrup or use honey or agave
	1 teaspoon vanilla extract
	1/2 teaspoon cinnamon or try ginger or pumpkin pie spice
	1/2 teaspoon salt
	1/3 cup optional sweet mix-ins like dried fruit, toasted coconut, chocolate chips see below for ideas!

Nutritional Information

237kcal Calories

22g Carbohydrates

4g Protein

15g Fat

6g Saturated Fat

75mg Sodium

149mg Potassium

2g Fiber

6g Sugar

0.2mg Vitamin C

34MG Calcium

1.2mg Iron

Directions

1.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees & line a large cookie sheet w parchment paper.

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2.

In a large bowl stir together oats, nuts, oil, liquid sweetener, vanilla, spice, salt.

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3.

Spread on sheet & bake for 20-25 mins - stirring once halfway. For large snackable chunks of granola press-down on the mixture to pack it down in the pan after stirring at the halfway point. This helps the granola form larger clumps.

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4.

Let cool, add in optional sweet mix ins, & enjoy! Keeps up to 2 weeks or freeze for later. 1/2 cup per serving

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Notes

You can use any combination of sweet mix-ins you like to create your perfect bowl of granola! Have fun with dried fruit like raisins golden raisins, cranberries, cherries/blueberries, chopped candied ginger, dried apricots, figs, dates, toasted coconut, orange zest &/or chocolate chips.

To get you started - here are a few of my fav flavor combinations! Cinnamon-Walnut-Cranberry Apricot-Almond-Ginger Blueberry-Coconut-Pecan Honey-Date-Orange Zest Cherry-Walnut-Chocolate Chip