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Crunchy homemade granola

Filling, delicious, crunchy, nutritious homemade granola

Course Breakfast, Snack
Keyword granola, oatmeal

Ingredients

  • 6 cups Old Fashioned Oats
  • 2 cups chopped/sliced almonds (I choose to keep mine whole for more crunch)
  • 1/4 cup chia seeds
  • 1 cup pumpkin seeds
  • 1 cup walnuts
  • 1 cup craisins/raisins
  • 1 cup water
  • 3/4 cup oil
  • 1-2 cup brown sugar (sub honey/agave)
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp cinnamon
  • pinch salt

Instructions

  1. Turn the oven to 325 degrees F

  2. Mix in a big bowl the first 6 ingredients (the oats to craisins). Feel free to add different nuts/seeds, coconut shavings, other dried fruit like apricots

  3. In a pot, mix and boil the last 6 ingredients (water to salt)

  4. Once the pot is boiling, turn it off and combine the oat ingredients

  5. Spread the granola evenly on two baking sheets

  6. Bake the granola in the oven at 325 for 25 minutes. Then toss the granola around. Reset the oven to now 275 degrees and bake for an additional 15 minutes or until it's golden brown. Take it out of the oven and let it sit (it's a this stage that it'll turn crunchy)

Recipe Notes

Feel free to make this recipe your own - add different nuts/seeds, add different dried fruit, coconut shavings, try more honey/less sugar etc. Eat it with your choice of milk, yogurt, berries etc

Feel free to try adding brewers yeast for an extra boost in  B vitamins and milk supply boost.