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Easy Granola

A really simple recipe for granola that will use up any odds and ends of dried fruit or nuts.
Delicious with yoghurt and apple puree!
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 tbsp coconut or light olive oil
  • 1 tbsp maple syrup, honey or a mixture
  • 150 g rolled oats
  • 50 g barley flour, oat flour optional but helps with clumping
  • 1 tbsp seeds, pumpkin, sesame or sunflower
  • 1 tbsp mixed nuts break if you prefer
  • 1 tbsp dried fruit including coconut flakes chop up if large

Method
 

  1. Heat up the oven to 140c or gas mark 2/3. The idea is more to dry out and toast the ingredients than cook them.
  2. Mix the oil and syrup and honey together. If it is cold, or you are using a solid oil it helps to melt it.
  3. Add the oats and flour if you are using it and mix well until the oats are coated.
  4. Spread the mixture on a baking tray and put in the oven for 15 minutes
  5. After 15 minutes carefully move the granola around on the tray and add the seeds and nuts.
  6. Put back in the oven for 10 to 20 minutes, depending on how toasted you like your granola.
  7. Tip out onto a clean tray or some baking parchment to cool down - clumps will form as it cools.
  8. If you have cooled the granola on baking parchment you can lift that up to pour it into an airtight container. It will keep for about 6 weeks.

Notes

I make a double batch of this granola and split it at the adding nuts stage. That way I can make 2 different flavours. Pecan and goji berries if I'm feeling flush (or if a bargain comes up). Walnut and sultanas if money is tighter.