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Healthy Granola

It's easy to make your own great-tasting granola. Best of all, you can experiment with adding your favorite ingredients and leaving out those you prefer not to include. There are near limitless twists to enhance your own granola. Try sunflower seeds, walnuts, pecans, dried fruits and berries, dark chocolate chunks, chia seeds, etc.
You can also enjoy granola in numerous ways: straight up with milk or a milk substitute like rice or almond milk, with yogurt, in a smoothie, as a topping on dessert, ...

Servings: 4 cups

Prep time: 5 min

Cook time: 30 min

Ingredients

Quantity
Ingredient
1 1/2 cups
Rolled Oats*
or Ground Rolled Oats* for a more easily digestible granola
1/2 cup
Almonds*
whole almonds chopped or blanched slivers*, may be raw* or roasted*, salted or not
2 Tbsp
Coconut Oil*
melted
1/4 cup
Silan*
or substitute honey*, maple syrup, or other sweetener
2 Tbsp
Almond Butter*
optional; substitute peanut butter* or other nut butter
2 tsp
Cinnamon*
ground
2 tsp
Pure Vanilla Extract*
NON-optional ingredient!
1/2 tsp
Sea Salt*
1/3 cup
Pumpkin Seeds*
optional
1/3 cup
Ground Coconut*
optional

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 300F/150C and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. In a large bowl, combine oats, almonds, pumpkin seeds, ground coconut, cinnamon and salt.
  3. Add melted coconut oil, silan, almond butter and pure vanilla extract. Mix until all of the ingredients are well combined.
  4. Evenly spread the mixture onto the baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes, tossing half way.
  5. Remove from the oven and let cool completely.
  6. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for 1-2 weeks or freeze for up to 3 months.

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