This delicious healthy granola recipe is super easy to make. Its made with rolled oats, nuts, seeds, dried fruits and sweetened with maple syrup. You can get creative and customize the recipe to your liking.
This recipe is subtly sweet, crunchy, gluten-free and makes a perfect breakfast to keep on hand. Once you try making homemade granola you simply cannot go back to store bought. Store bought granolas are loaded with sugar as opposed to the homemade where you can control the sugar level. Therefore, I love making my own batch. This recipe makes a prefect crunchy midday snack or on the go breakfast. This non clustery granola recipe uses only apt amount of sweetener as opposed to the clustered clumpier granola.
Ingredients:
- Oats: I use gluten free sprouted rolled oats. However, you can use quick oats or old fashioned oats (aka rolled oats). Thick rolled oats give a wonderful texture to granola.
- Nuts: I have used walnuts & almonds for the nutty flavor. However, cashews, pecans, peanuts, pistachios work well in this recipe too.
- Seeds: I have added chia seeds and pumpkin seeds for the extra fiber, protein and omega 3 fatty acids. You can omit the seeds if you don’t like them.
- Oil: I use cooking olive oil as healthy fats in this recipe. You can use any neutral oil for this recipe. For example: coconut oil, canola oil, vegetable oil.
- Sweetener: I have used maple syrup to sweeten the granola. Alternatively, you can use honey.
- Spices: Addition of spices like, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg adds lovely aromatic flavor to the granola.
- Dried fruits: I have added dried cranberries, raisins. Dried blueberries, cherries, dates are a great alternatives that you can choose from.
How To Make Homemade Granola:
- Toss together dry ingredients: In a bowl add oats, walnuts, almonds, pumpkin seeds. Save the chia seeds and dried fruits to add on later.
- Add the wet ingredients and spices. Whisk together olive oil, maple syrup, cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder and salt. Drizzle it over the dry ingredients and give everything a good mix. Make sure the dry ingredients are well coated with the wet ingredients. Evenly spread the granola mixture on a lined baking tray.
- Bake: Bake the granola at 350 degree F for 25 minutes stirring the mixture halfway through.
- Add dried fruits and chia seeds, give everything a god mix.
- Let the granola cool down completely. Once it reaches the room temperature, store it in an air tight container at room temperature up to 2 weeks. Alternatively seal it in a freezer bag and freeze up to 3 months.
How to serve Granola:
These are my favorite two ways to eat ganola.
- Parfait : Greek yogurt topped with nutty granola makes a healthy breakfast or an afternoon wholesome snack. Parfaits are super simple to put together and packed with loads of nutrients when combined with fresh fruits and berries.
- Cereal : One of the easiest way to eat granola is on its own with a little bit of milk.
