Granola Basics
Preheat oven to 325F
Dry Ingredients:
- 3 cups Old Fashioned Oats
- 1 cup Unsalted nuts
- ¼ cup Coconut chips or crumbled Graham crackers
- 1/3 cup Dark brown sugar
- ½ Teaspoon of Cinnamon
- ½ Teaspoon of Salt
- 1 cup of dried fruit, such as raisins or cranberries
- ¼ cup Chocolate morsels
Wet ingredients:
- 1/3 cup of Extra virgin olive oil
- ¼ cup of honey
- ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
Mix all the dry ingredients except for the dried fruit and chocolate, which you add after the granola cools. Mix and stir the wet ingredients, making sure the vanilla extract bubbles are tiny and spread throughout the oil/honey blend. While stirring, slowly pour the wet into the dry ingredients in a big mixing bowl. Once all the oats are covered with slick sweetness, gently pour onto parchment paper covering your baking sheet. Spread out and pat down your granola toward all corners, so that the granola isn’t stacked in the center. Bake for 17 minutes. Allow the baked granola to cool for 10 minutes on the stove top. Once the pan is cool, add the dried fruit and chocolate nibs to the top of the granola. Break up the clumps while filling a storage container with your granola. Keep the storage container in the refrigerator, since you aren’t adding preservatives.
homemade granola from scratch
Roger S. King 