Healthy Homemade Granola
A simple, customizable formula for healthy homemade granola. Perfect for a quick breakfast or a crunchy snack.
Ingredients
- 4 cups rolled oats not steel cut or quick cooking
- 1 cup coconut flakes
- 1 cup raw nuts sliced almonds, chopped pecans, sunflower or pumpkin seeds
- 1/2 cup dried fruit chopped apricots, apple, pineapple, or raisins
- 1 tsp spice cinnamon, pumpkin spice, or gingerbread mix
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/3 cup sweetener honey, maple syrup, agave, or brown sugar
- 1/3 cup fat melted butter, canola oil, or liquid coconut oil
- 1 1/2 tsp flavouring vanilla, almond essence, or orange blossom
- 2 egg whites only for clumpy version
Instructions
- For Loose Granola: Preheat oven to 300°F (150°C). Mix dry ingredients (excluding fruit). Combine wet ingredients, then stir into the dry mix.
- Spread on a tray and bake for 35-40 minutes, tossing twice. Stir in dried fruit after baking.
- For Clumpy Granola: Preheat oven to 280°F (140°C). Whisk egg whites until foamy.
- Mix all wet and dry ingredients (including fruit) in a bowl, then fold in the egg whites.
- Spread on a tray in a doughnut shape (with a hole in the center). Bake undisturbed for 45 minutes.
- Turn oven off, leave door slightly ajar, and let cool completely in the oven to set the clusters.
Notes
Use rolled oats for best texture. For clumpy granola, do not stir during baking.