My husband loves granola, and I used to buy Bob's red mill naturally made granola. But I don't really want to buy a lot and stock it at home because it's humid here in the Philippines, and food gets older than it is in cold country.
So one day, I run out of granola, but no time to go to a mall to buy it anymore, so that I tried making it myself.
It turned out quite good, and you should try making yourself if you want a crunchy kind of cereal.
So here's what you need:
<measure dry ingredients>
3.5 cups (or around 400g) organic rolled oats (old fashioned)
1/2 cup unsweetened dried coconut powder
1/4 cup organic sesame seeds
handful of pumpkin seeds / sun flower seeds / sliced almond etc
(may be around 1/2 cup in total: preferably organic)
*most of organic products are from Bob's red mill.
<measure other ingredients and combine>
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup organic moscovado sugar ( it's also called "Barbados sugar" or "molasses sugar" )
1/4 cup 100% orange juice (or apple orange juice, etc)
(any brand can do. No need to squeeze from real orange, but you can also do that)
1/4 cup organic maple syrup
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 tea spoon organic ground cinnamon
1 tea spoon organic vanilla extract
1 tea spoon organic orange extract
1/3 to 1/4 homemade apple jam
(optional: you can substitute it to other commercial jam of your choice, too.)
*My sister in law gave me a box of apple for Christmas, so I made all the apples into jam, and kept in freezer for apple tart, apple pie, or things like this.
*My sister in law gave me a box of apple for Christmas, so I made all the apples into jam, and kept in freezer for apple tart, apple pie, or things like this.
Pour combined wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix well by rubber spatula.
So this is how it looks after mixing.
Spray olive oil on baking sheet,
and spread the granola mixture on it.
I use silicon baking sheet, but I think non-stick baking tray can do.
Bake at 300℉ or 150℃ until golden brown.
You need to get the baking tray out of the oven every 15 minutes,
and using rubber spatula, mix the granola, rotate the tray and bring it back to the oven.
It took me around 35 minutes to get it done, but I think it depends on the oven.
I use gas oven so normally it's easily get burned.
(some oven may take 50 minutes or so)
Burned granola will be bitter, so just be careful not to over-bake.
It looks a bit wet even it's done, and soft if you touch it.
But when it cools, it gets harder and crunchy.
<Add your favorite dry fruits>
Now you measure any dry fruits of your choice, around 1 to 2 cups.
I used dried cranberry, dried raspberry, and dried black currant.
You can use raisins, apricot, cherry, or anything you like.
It was easier than I thought, and you can never buy granola like this in store with extra virgin olive oil, cause almost everything is organic, and there's no white sugar added, .
Enjoy!
