Looking for a healthy granola recipe that isn’t filled with artificial sugar, and won’t break the bank? This 25-Minute, Easy and Natural Granola is the perfect topping for your morning oatmeal or yogurt parfaits!
Granola is Key
A fun fact about me is that I used to HATE yogurt. To this day, I still cannot eat plain yogurt. It has to be Greek with fruit, or fruit on the bottom. One thing that helps me get through my texture issue is adding fresh fruit and granola. Unfortunately, most store bought granola has an immense amount of added sugars, or it is so healthy that it costs $500 an ounce. That’s a slight exaggeration, but quality granola is still not cheap! I was on a mission to create the perfect, inexpensive, all-natural granola that I could make at home for half the cost and I did just that!
(Mostly) Basic Ingredients
If you are someone like me that hoards a bunch of snacks and baking items in your pantry, chances are you have the ingredients for this recipe. The only oddball might be the dates required to make the date sauce to sweeten up the recipe. However, once you buy a bag, it lasts forever in the fridge. Other than using the date sauce as the binding/sweetening agent, the rest of the ingredients could be interchangeable. For example, if you don’t like pecans, you could replace them with walnuts, or even more almonds. I’ll try to play around with other ingredients and spices, and see what I can come up with for you!
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25-Minute, Easy and Natural Granola
Equipment
- food processor
- silpat mat or baking sheet
Ingredients
Date Sauce
- 1/3 cup Date Sauce
Granola
- 1/2 cup almonds
- 1/3 cup pecans
- 1/3 cup shredded coconut
- 1 Tbs chia seeds
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 cup oats
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F
- Prepare date sauce according to recipe. Set 1/3 cup from finished date sauce aside
- In a food processor, pulverize all of the ingredients EXCEPT the oats until the almonds are in smaller/more bite sized pieces
- Dump the ground ingredients into a medium bowl and add the oats, mix to combine
- Add 1/3 cup of date sauce to the bowl. Using a small spatula, mix in the date sauce by pressing the granola onto the side of the bowl until all of the oats/granola are coated and sticky with date sauce. The granola will start to clump up and look like granola clusters
- Once the oven is preheated, use your hands to crumble to granola clusters onto a silpat mat
- Bake for 8 minutes and remove from the oven to "turn" the granola
- Return to the oven and bake for another 12 minutes, until the granola is crispy/the date sauce is no longer tacky
- Remove the silpat mat from the oven and allow the granola to cool before storing in a container
Notes
Nutrition
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I'm a 20-something foodie with a passion for travel. As a self taught chef, I believe food is what brings us together. When I'm not in my kitchen creating recipes, I love connecting with people as I experience cuisines from other cultures. Come join me on my culinary and travel adventures!