Build Your Own Homemade Granola (Muesli)
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
Instructions
- LOOSE Granola:
- Preheat oven to 150C/300F.
- Combine Dry ingredients, excluding dried fruit.
- Combine Wet ingredients.
- Combine Wet and Dry ingredients. Do a taste test. Adjust to taste - more sweet, more fat etc.
- Spread on baking tray and bake until golden, approximately 35 - 40 minutes, tossing twice.
- Stir through dried fruit. Cool. Store in an airtight container.
- CLUMPY Granola:
- Preheat oven to 140C/280F. Line a large baking tray with baking paper.
- Combine Wet excluding egg whites.
- Combine Dry including dried fruit.
- Whisk egg whites with fork until foamy.
- Mix Wet and Dry in a large bowl, then mix through egg whites.
- Spread granola on the tray, making a hole in the centre, like a doughnut (see photo in post).
- Bake for 45 minutes - DO NOT STIR - until golden. Check at 35 minutes.
- 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.
- Once cool, break into clusters. Store in an airtight container.
