Build Your Own Homemade Granola (Muesli)
Total Time
35 minutes
Prep Time
5 minutes
Cook Time
30 minutes
Rating
4.96 out of 5 stars
(93)
Ingredients
- 4 cups / 360 g rolled oats (not steel cut or quick cooking)
- 1 cup coconut flakes (or more nuts or oats)
- 1 cup raw nuts (eg. sliced almonds, chopped pecans, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds)
- 1/2 cup dried fruit (eg. chopped apricots, apple, pineapple, raisins)
- 1 tsp your favourite spice (eg. cinnamon, pumpkin spice, gingerbread mix)
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/3 cup sweetener (eg. honey, maple syrup, agave, see note 2 for Brown Sugar)
- 1/3 cup fat (eg. melted butter, canola oil or coconut oil)
- 1 1/2 tsp flavouring (eg. vanilla, almond essence, orange blossom)
- 2 egg whites
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Preparation
Step 1
LOOSE Granola:
Step 2
Preheat oven to 150C/300F.
Step 3
Combine Dry ingredients, excluding dried fruit.
Step 4
Combine Wet ingredients.
Step 5
Combine Wet and Dry ingredients. Do a taste test. Adjust to taste - more sweet, more fat etc.
Step 6
Spread on baking tray and bake until golden, approximately 35 - 40 minutes, tossing twice.
Step 7
Stir through dried fruit. Cool. Store in an airtight container.
Step 8
CLUMPY Granola:
Step 9
Preheat oven to 140C/280F. Line a large baking tray with baking paper.
Step 10
Combine Wet excluding egg whites.
Step 11
Combine Dry including dried fruit.
Step 12
Whisk egg whites with fork until foamy.
Step 13
Mix Wet and Dry in a large bowl, then mix through egg whites.
Step 14
Spread granola on the tray, making a hole in the centre, like a doughnut (see photo in post).
Step 15
Bake for 45 minutes - DO NOT STIR - until golden. Check at 35 minutes.
Step 16
Then turn the oven off, leave the granola in the oven, and open the oven door open a bit. Leave the granola to cool. The colour will deepen and it will firm up.
Step 17
Once cool, break into clusters. Store in an airtight container.
Step 18
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