Easy Homemade Granola Recipe

If cereal is your favourite kind of breakfast, why not make your own? Making this healthy homemade granola recipe couldn’t be easier and it’s delicious. Lots of variety with fruits and seeds, providing loads of flavour and healthy goodness to start your day.

Read on and find out how.

This healthy homemade granola recipe granola makes a wonderful, satisfying and nutritious breakfast. Pour it into your favourite bowl add your favourite milk; plant-based or dairy, maybe some yoghurt? Try coconut or vanilla flavoured yoghurt – they go really well with this recipe.

At home, we often sprinkle this granola over simple mid-week desserts made from layered fruit and yoghurt as it makes a pleasant crunch and creates an interesting contrast of textures. Try it on the top of a chia pudding for example – really lovely. Confession time… I sometimes just eat it dry as a snack… out of my hand … is that bad?

The ingredients for making Homemade Granola Recipe

This recipe is for an oat based granola breakfast cereal but I have included the amounts of dried fruit seeds and nuts as well so that you can experience a really wonderful granola.

Oats: Be sure to use rolled oats, also known as old-fashioned oats. You can use gluten-free oats to make gluten-free granola, just be sure to check that the brand you buy is certified gluten-free.

Dried fruit: I’m using cranberries and apricots here, but most dried fruit work well. So, if you’ve some favourites be sure to include them.

Nuts/seeds: Sunflower seeds, walnuts, pecans, peanuts and cashews all make good additions or substitutions for those listed below. If the nuts/seeds you are using are already toasted, add them at the end so that they don’t burn and become totally uninteresting or worse still, nasty tasting.

Method for making this homemade Granola Recipe

This is really straightforward and doesn’t take a heap of time.

1. Preheat your oven to 350F (176C).
2. Prepare your baking tray (approximately 9×13). It needs to be large enough so that the ingredients can spread out. This helps to achieve a nice toastiness and the delicious clusters.
3. Grease the tray or line it with baking parchment. It is useful (makes washing up easier I should say) to line it with parchment as it prevents any of the maple syrup mixture catching in the corners.
4. To a large bowl add the olive oil, maple syrup and vanilla extract. Mix it all together.
5. Add in the dry ingredients: oats, cinnamon, almonds, salt and pumpkin seeds. (You may leave out the salt if you wish – it acts as a flavour enhancer only in this recipe.) Stir until everything is well combined and all the ingredients are coated.
6. Place the mixture onto a large prepared baking tray spreading it out as much as possible and press it down, then bake for 10 minutes at 350F (176C) for 10 minutes.
7. After 10 minutes take it out, stir the mixture (press it firmly down if you want clustered granola). This means that everything will get nicely toasted and then place it back in the oven for another 10 minutes.
8. Remove from the oven and allow it to cool to room temperature and then add in the dried fruit and coconut. You’ll want to chop up larger dried fruits such as the apricots, whereas with the smaller ones you can add them straight in.

How to create granola clusters

Ok, so we know that one of the most awesome things about granola is the little oaty nuggets. These are so easy to make, just follow the simple steps below.

• press down the mixture after you’ve added it to the baking tray, and at the halfway bake mark, stir the granola and then press it down quite firmly in the tray and pop it back into the oven to finish baking.
• After taking it out of the oven for the second time, allow it to fully cool before breaking up the mixture so that it can set and form clusters.

Serving this Healthy homemade Granola Recipe

Serve your delicious granola cereal with fresh fruit such as bananas or your favourite berries for additional loveliness.

Decide whether to eat it with milk, your preffered kind, or with yoghurt. It also makes quite an interesting trail mix to eat dry.

We often use this granola as a kind of sprinkle over fruity yoghurt, it’s really lovely.

This is a great breakfast bowl that will curb any mid-morning longings for sugary snacks.

Storing your delicious breakfast cereal

As with all breakfast cereal this glorious granola need to be stored in an airtight container to keep it fresh. It will last happily for upto a month before it begins to get a little stale.

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