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Healthy Homemade Granola – Build Your Own Recipe
Do you want your Granola unfastened or clumpy? Both approach, you’ll love this – the final word wholesome Selfmade Granola information! Combine and match, construct your individual granola through the use of the elements you want and have available.
Simple Selfmade Granola
I’m going to be trustworthy with you – I didn’t begin making making granola as a result of it’s more healthy than retailer purchased. I began as a result of it’s cheaper and and I can management how candy it’s (retailer purchased is so candy!!!). Then it developed right into a little bit of a recreation, making an attempt to provide you with cute flavour combos. Berry Burst, Apple Pie, Apricot Dawn, Blueberry Pie, Apple Crumble, Peach ‘n Cream, Maple Crunch, Oatmeal Raisin Cookie.
You get the image. Mainly, desserts in breakfast kind!
I make Selfmade Granola – or Muesli as some Aussies understand it – utilizing a method. I may discuss you thru it, nevertheless it’s a lot simpler simply to point out you. ↓↓↓
That is really a recipe that I posted yonks and yonks in the past, nevertheless it’s been tweaked and improved, and plus evidently again in these days I wasn’t a lot of a talker as a result of the submit had zero chatter in it.
The 2 most important modifications made to the recipe are to stir the dried fruit in on the finish for the unfastened granola (as a result of some bits can border on burning) and including a technique to make CLUMPY granola with out including masses and a great deal of honey / sugar / butter just by stirring by way of egg whites. Egg is the final word meals glue, for the whole lot from truffles to cookies, omelettes to meatballs. And it holds true for granola. 🙂
So the identical base “method” applies to each sorts of granola, besides the steps and cooking technique are a bit of totally different.
Unfastened granola is so simple as it will get: Mix Dry elements, mix Moist elements, mix Moist & Dry, unfold on tray, bake, add fruit at finish.
Easy, sure?
As for clumpy granola, the order of the steps is a bit of totally different. The fruit needs to be added in at the start as a result of you’ll be able to’t stir it in on the finish. Egg white is added to bind the granola collectively to kind clusters, it’s baked at a decrease temperature (which helps to make sure the fruit doesn’t burn) then left to chill within the turned off oven which permits it to complete crisping and for the clusters to set..
Ahh, and the one little unusual factor I do as a result of you’ll be able to’t stir the granola because it bakes (as a result of in any other case you’ll break up the clusters!!) is to unfold the granola on the tray with a gap within the center as a result of even once I’m utilizing a fan pressured/convection oven, I can by no means get the center to go golden and crispy with out the perimeters burning. 🙂
Seems to be bizarre I do know. However belief me, it makes all of the distinction!!
And see? Look the way it clusters up!
And have you ever ever thought of gifting granola?? Considerate, GREAT VALUE and completely customisable reward!!
OK, so I’ve to admit I’ve by no means ever gifted Granola earlier than. It’s now formally on my listing for Christmas items this yr….
Selfmade Granola has gotten all stylish prior to now few years, and also you’d have to look onerous to discover a bistro with out granola on the weekend brunch menu. And so they cost a small fortune for it too.
And that, my pals, is the great thing about this Selfmade Granola “method” – it’s so low cost to make utilizing leftover ins and outs. Dig into that pantry of yours and scratch collectively no matter nuts, seeds and dried fruit yow will discover. Get artistic with the spices, go wild with flavourings!
And share your Granola flavouring concepts within the feedback beneath to encourage different readers! I’ve some strategies within the notes of the recipe – however I guess you’ll be able to provide you with higher ones! – Johnsat x
Ingredients
- 4 cups / 360 g rolled oats (not steel cut or quick cooking)
- 1 cup coconut flakes (or more nuts or oats)
- 1 cup raw nuts (eg. sliced almonds, chopped pecans, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds)
- 1/2 cup dried fruit (eg. chopped apricots, apple, pineapple, raisins)
- 1 tsp your favourite spice (eg. cinnamon, pumpkin spice, gingerbread mix)
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/3 cup sweetener (eg. honey, maple syrup, agave, see note 2 for Brown Sugar)
- 1/3 cup fat (eg. melted butter, canola oil or coconut oil)
- 1 1/2 tsp flavouring (eg. vanilla, almond essence, orange blossom)
- 2 egg whites
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 150C/300F.
- Combine Dry ingredients, excluding dried fruit.
- Combine Wet ingredients.
- Combine Wet and Dry ingredients. Do a taste test. Adjust to taste – more sweet, more fat etc.
- Spread on baking tray and bake until golden, approximately 35 – 40 minutes, tossing twice.
- Stir through dried fruit. Cool. Store in an airtight container.
- Preheat oven to 140C/280F. Line a large baking tray with baking paper.
- Combine Wet excluding egg whites.
- Combine Dry including dried fruit.
- Whisk egg whites with fork until foamy.
- Mix Wet and Dry in a large bowl, then mix through egg whites.
- Spread granola on the tray, making a hole in the centre, like a doughnut (see photo in post).
- Bake for 45 minutes – DO NOT STIR – until golden. Check at 35 minutes.
- Then turn the oven off, leave the granola in the oven, and open the oven door open a bit. Leave the granola to cool. The colour will deepen and it will firm up.
- Once cool, break into clusters. Store in an airtight container.
Notes
1. Some GRANOLA FLAVOUR COMBINATIONS:
* My Classic Fruit & Nut: Butter, Honey, Almonds + Pumpkin Seeds, mixed dried chopped fruit (store bought mix), cinnamon powder and vanilla essence.* Apple Pie: As above but use only almonds and dried apples.* Oatmeal Raisin Cookie: Butter, honey, raisins, vanilla and cinnamon, pinch of All Spice.* Blueberry Pie: Apple Pie recipe but use dried blueberries instead and skip the cinnamon powder and add a dash of lemon essence.* Super Berries: Try using dried goji berries!* Orange Almond: Almonds and orange blossom* Maple Pecan Pie! Use Pecans, vanilla, butter, maple
2. Brown Sugar: Add this into the Dry Ingredients.
3. Originally published in May 2014, updated with video and improved recipe. Changes include: adding a method to make clumpy granola without adding more sweetener or fat, for the loose granola, adding the dried fruit at the end which ensures none of it burns (sometimes, some fruit on the surface can get a little too brown). All photos were replaced and words were rewritten.
4. Nutrition per serving, assuming 10 servings (about 2/3 cup per serving).
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Ingredients
- 4 cups / 360 g rolled oats (not steel cut or quick cooking)
- 1 cup coconut flakes (or more nuts or oats)
- 1 cup raw nuts (eg. sliced almonds, chopped pecans, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds)
- 1/2 cup dried fruit (eg. chopped apricots, apple, pineapple, raisins)
- 1 tsp your favourite spice (eg. cinnamon, pumpkin spice, gingerbread mix)
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/3 cup sweetener (eg. honey, maple syrup, agave, see note 2 for Brown Sugar)
- 1/3 cup fat (eg. melted butter, canola oil or coconut oil)
- 1 1/2 tsp flavouring (eg. vanilla, almond essence, orange blossom)
- 2 egg whites
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 150C/300F.
- Combine Dry ingredients, excluding dried fruit.
- Combine Wet ingredients.
- Combine Wet and Dry ingredients. Do a taste test. Adjust to taste – more sweet, more fat etc.
- Spread on baking tray and bake until golden, approximately 35 – 40 minutes, tossing twice.
- Stir through dried fruit. Cool. Store in an airtight container.
- Preheat oven to 140C/280F. Line a large baking tray with baking paper.
- Combine Wet excluding egg whites.
- Combine Dry including dried fruit.
- Whisk egg whites with fork until foamy.
- Mix Wet and Dry in a large bowl, then mix through egg whites.
- Spread granola on the tray, making a hole in the centre, like a doughnut (see photo in post).
- Bake for 45 minutes – DO NOT STIR – until golden. Check at 35 minutes.
- Then turn the oven off, leave the granola in the oven, and open the oven door open a bit. Leave the granola to cool. The colour will deepen and it will firm up.
- Once cool, break into clusters. Store in an airtight container.
Notes
1. Some GRANOLA FLAVOUR COMBINATIONS:
* My Classic Fruit & Nut: Butter, Honey, Almonds + Pumpkin Seeds, mixed dried chopped fruit (store bought mix), cinnamon powder and vanilla essence.* Apple Pie: As above but use only almonds and dried apples.* Oatmeal Raisin Cookie: Butter, honey, raisins, vanilla and cinnamon, pinch of All Spice.* Blueberry Pie: Apple Pie recipe but use dried blueberries instead and skip the cinnamon powder and add a dash of lemon essence.* Super Berries: Try using dried goji berries!* Orange Almond: Almonds and orange blossom* Maple Pecan Pie! Use Pecans, vanilla, butter, maple
2. Brown Sugar: Add this into the Dry Ingredients.
3. Originally published in May 2014, updated with video and improved recipe. Changes include: adding a method to make clumpy granola without adding more sweetener or fat, for the loose granola, adding the dried fruit at the end which ensures none of it burns (sometimes, some fruit on the surface can get a little too brown). All photos were replaced and words were rewritten.
4. Nutrition per serving, assuming 10 servings (about 2/3 cup per serving).
Did You Make This Recipe?
How you went with my recipes? Tag me on Instagram at @PenciDesign.
