Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Five Grain Granola
I read over a bunch of granola recipes and came up with the following. I'm very happy with the results and it smells SO good. I eat it with yogurt or Kefir. If you'd rather use just oats or just can't find the five grain cereal flakes, rolled oats work just fine.
6 cups Sunridge Farms five grain cereal flakes or rolled oats
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp kosher salt (maybe a tad more)
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup walnut oil (or whatever vegetable oil you like)
1/2 cup almonds
1/2 cup pecans
1 cup mixed dried fruit (raisins, cranberries, pineapple, papaya, etc)
1/4 cup coconut flakes
Mix the grains, cinnamon, brown sugar, and salt together in a large mixing bowl. Mix the vanilla, honey, and walnut oil together in a separate bowl. Then mix the liquid ingredients with the grain mixture in the large mixing bowl.
Spread out on 2 large baking sheets in a thin even layer, and toast in a 300 degree oven for 20 minutes (up to 30 minutes but watch it so it doesn't burn). Toast the nuts and the coconut as well, but separately from the grain mixture because the coconut gets toasted quite quickly, and you'll be chopping up the nuts after they're toasted. But, you can probably toast the nuts at the same time and for the same length of time as the grain mixture. Stir the grain mixture a bit after toasting to prevent it from clumping too much. Allow to cool. Chop up the nuts. Then mix in the nuts, fruit, and coconut.
There is a site that'll analyze recipes for you, but I couldn't find the calorie count for the five grain cereal flakes, so I just did a calorie count for old fashioned rolled oats, and I think it works out to about 315 calories per 3/4 cup (which is quite enough granola for breakfast).
The recipe analyzer page: Calorie Count Recipe Analyzer
If you reduce the fruit to half a cup, it'll reduce the calories a little bit, I think about 300 per 3/4 cup. But I wanted more fruit. Calorie count is a guesstimate anyway.
Also - toasted coconut flakes are really, really good (delicate and crispy and delicious) but I didn't put much in because it'd raise the calorie count too much. But if you don't care, go for it and add more.
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