GRANOLA RECIPE
Everyone loves granola. From a late night snack, morning backpacking breakfast, to the perfect carb boost on a skl day it’s a family favorite.
As a young child I often made granola with my own Mom! I remember baking it in this massive turkey pot so we could make copious amounts at one time. My Mom was queen of practical and frugal cooking!
As I’ve grown into a mother myself I’ve learned that as much as practical and frugal cooking is important to me, taste and nutrients likely rank much higher on my list. :) So much so that when I become bent on something, like making delicious crunchy granola clusters, I don’t stop until I’ve perfected it.
So, without further adu, I’d like to announce that I believe I’ve perfected the delicious, nutritious, AND happens to be frugal and practical granola recipe that my entire families loves. Recently, my girls and I made this recipe in under 10 minutes.
RECIPE
3 cups old fashioned rolled oats
3TBSP chia seeds
1/2 cup flax seeds
1 cup hazelenuts
1/2 cup slivered almonds
1 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
2 TBSP chia seeds + 4tbsp boiling water to make a chia egg
2/3 cup coconut oil
1/2 cup maple sugar (or coconut sugar)
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 TBSP vanilla
2 TBSP cinnamon
1 cup dried wild blueberries
DIRECTIONS
Slowly heat the coconut oil, maple sugar, maple syrup and vanilla on the stove until sugar is melted and substance is hot. It’s important you make sure you get your mixture pretty hot. This will help the oil and sugar thicken a bit to make more “clusters”
Make your chia egg and set aside by mixing 2TBSP chia seeds with 4TBSP hot water
Mix in a large bowl oats, chia seeds, flax seeds, hazelnuts, almonds, and coconut
Take 1.5 cups of the mixture and blend it in your blender and then add it back into the bowl
Mix in the hot oil/sugar and chia egg
Add your cinnamon and wild blueberries
Spread it out evenly on a large cookie sheet
Bake at 300° for 40 minutes. Personally, I don’t touch it in the oven. I know a lot of people recommend stirring halfway through. This may un-cluster your clusters.
Take out and let it cool completely before putting into your jar to store.
ENOY!
SOURCING
Almost all the ingredients I listed I buy from Azure Standard