Easy Homemade Healthy Granola Recipe

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Easy Homemade Healthy Granola Recipe

This Easy Homemade Healthy Granola Recipe is loaded with Oats, Seeds, dry fruits, almond butter and lots of healthy ingredients.  The best healthy breakfast recipe to lose weight. Have this homemade granola with yogurt or milk every morning at breakfast to start your day with healthy choices 

What is Granola?

Granola is a breakfast food or snack made with rolled oats or old fashioned oats combined with nuts, raisins, seeds, and more healthy ingredients. It is kinda cereal that is combined with milk or yogurt and sometimes even served with fresh fruits. Granola also are available in bars making it easier to have as a snack

This healthy breakfast granola is crisp and loaded with healthy ingredients. It is baked until golden brown with a crunchy texture 

If you looking for granola bar recipes, here you go 

Chocolate Granola Bars Recipe

These No Bake Chocolate Prunes Almond Granola Bars are delicious and healthy. They are rich and filling, easy to make and loaded with the goodness of Oats. It’s a perfect snack when you hungry and also a good snack option for kids at school. 

Fruit And Nut Granola Bars

These Fruit And Nut Granola Bars have all the nuts you like and is loaded with dates, raisins and more. Its a very basic granola bar recipe, you can add whatever nuts and dried fruits you’d like in these healthy bars. These simply taste great and is a perfect munching option when you need a snack. 

The Best Healthy Granola Recipe

Healthy Recipes are all over the internet but how many among those are seriously delicious? This granola recipe is a great start to every day. To me, granola is all about tossing my favorite dried fruits and nuts with a handful of rolled oats with some natural sweeteners like honey or maple syrup. Toss them all up and bake until crisp. 

Pour in some milk or yogurt into a bowl, chop fresh fruits and add it to the bowl along with the crisp granola. And there you have, a healthy bowl of breakfast which will keep you through a busy day 

Difference Between Rolled Oats And Instant Oats

Instant Oats are also known as Quick Oats. They are pre-cooked, dried and then packaged. Thus, they cook within a few minutes. The texture of instant oats is mushy or slight powdery.

Rolled Oats are also known as old fashioned oats or whole oats. They’re bigger in size as compared to instant oats. Flat and disc-like in shape. Rolled oats absorb more liquid and also hold their shape well during the cooking process. Before being packaged, they are steam to make it soft and then pressed to flatten them. 

Rolled Oats is mostly used for baking cookies, granola, etc. Thus, we require rolled oats for our healthy granola recipe

How To Make Granola? (Healthy Granola Recipe)

Toss Dry Ingredients

Firstly, toss up all the dry ingredients like Oats, Nuts, Seeds, spices, salt, etc. Do not add dried fruits like raisins or cranberries at this stage, keep that for the end.

Mix The Wet Ingredients 

In a bowl, mix the wet ingredients like nut butter’s, oils, sweeteners like honey or maple syrup, etc. Whisk the wet ingredients well making sure they all combine well 

Combine The Dry And Wet Ingredients Together

At this stage, you need to make all the dry ingredients are well coated with the wet ingredients. Toss and turn well, we do not want a lump of oats but crumbly kinda texture

Bake 

Baking the granola well is an essential step, thus, preheat the oven to 180 degrees C for 10 mins. Spread the granola mixture onto a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Bake the granola for 45 to 55 mins until golden brown. However, toss the granola every 12 to 15 mins to make sure there are no lumps. The oats should be crisp with no clusters. Loose and golden brown is what you looking for 

Add The Dried Fruits

Once the granola is out of the oven. This is the stage to add the dried fruits like chopped apricots, cranberries or raisins. Toss it all up in the warm granola and let the mixture come to room temperature 

Storage of Healthy Granola Recipe

This Granola can be stored in an airtight container and room temperature for about a month 

Ingredients – Healthy Granola Recipe

Oats

Rolled Oats is best suited to make granola. Not instant oats. If you do not find rolled oats at the stores near you look out for it online, its easily available

Seeds

Add all kinds of seeds available. Sunflower seeds, melon seeds, chia seeds, etc. Seeds keep up to the crunch and add a lot of goodness. However, if you do not like it feel free to skip it 

Nuts

Nuts add flavor, crunch and a lot of goodness as well. Add all the nuts you’d like. I’ve used almonds, walnuts, and cashews. You can even add pecans, hazelnuts, pine nuts, etc.. Add all the nuts that are easily available 

Sweetener

Since we keeping this healthy, it’s good to skip the sugar. I like to use natural sweeteners like honey or maple syrup for this recipe. I’ve used maple syrup but you can even substitute it with honey

Oil

Feel free to use any kind of cooking oil. I’d recommend using canola oil or coconut oil. These are the best 

Nut Butter

Nut butter adds in a lot of flavors. I’ve used almond butter. You can use any kinda nut butter thats available. If you want to learn how to make almond butter at home, here the recipe: Almond Butter

Dried Fruits 

Dried fruits like raisins, dried cranberries, kiwis, apricots, etc need to be added at the end when the granola is out of the oven. They taste great when soft as it is. If it is baked with the other ingredients it turns rubbery 

Recipe – Homemade Healthy Granola Recipe

Ingredients

• rolled oats 2 1/2 cups
• chia seeds 1/8 cup
• mixed seeds (I used sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds) 1/2 cup
• almonds, chopped 1/4 cup
• cashews, chopped 1/4 cup
• walnuts, chopped 1/4 cup
• salt 1/4 teaspoon
• cinnamon powder 1/4 teaspoon
• maple syrup 1/2 cup
• oil 1/4 cup (I like coconut oil)
• almond butter 1/4 cup
• vanilla essence 1 teaspoon
• dried cranberries 1/4 cup
• dried apricots, chopped 1/4 cup

Method

• In a bowl, combine the rolled oats, chia seeds, mixed seeds, almonds, walnuts, cashews, salt & cinnamon together. Mix well and set aside (dry mixture)
• In another bowl, combine the maple syrup, oil, almond butter, and vanilla essence together. Whisk well (wet mixture)
• Combine the wet mixture and dry mixture together. Mix well and spread this mixture on a baking dish lined with parchment paper. 
• Spread it evenly in a very thin layer and bake at 180 degrees C for 45 to 55 mins making sure you toss the granola mixture every 15 mins. This will make sure the mixture is crisp and has no lumps 
• Once golden brown, take it out from the oven and throw in the dried cranberries and dried apricot chunks. Mix well
• Once the mixture comes to room temperature, store it in an airtight container

Notes for Healthy Granola Recipe

• Feel free to substitute the maple syrup with honey 
• Stays well for up to a month

Easy Homemade Healthy Granola Recipe

Author: Alisha R

5 from 1 vote

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Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Keyword: breakfast recipes, granola recipe

Prep Time: 10 minutes mins

Cook Time: 50 minutes mins

Calories: 385kcal

This Easy Homemade Healthy Granola Recipe is loaded with Oats, Seeds, dry fruits, almond butter and lots of healthy ingredients

Ingredients

• 2 ½ cups rolled oats
• ⅛ cup chia seeds
• ½ cup mixed seeds (I used sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds) 
• ¼ cup almonds, chopped
• ¼ cup cashews, chopped
• ¼ cup walnuts, chopped
• ¼ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp cinnamon powder
• ½ cup maple syrup
• ¼ cup oil (I like coconut oil)
• ¼ cup almond butter
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• ¼ cup dried cranberries
• ¼ cup dried apricots, chopped

Instructions

• In a bowl, combine the rolled oats, chia seeds, mixed seeds, almonds, walnuts, cashews, salt & cinnamon together. Mix well and set aside (dry mixture)
• In another bowl, combine the maple syrup, oil, almond butter, and vanilla essence together. Whisk well (wet mixture)
• Combine the wet mixture and dry mixture together. Mix well and spread this mixture on a baking dish lined with parchment paper
• Spread it evenly in a very thin layer and bake at 180 degrees C for 45 to 55 mins making sure you toss the granola mixture every 15 mins. This will make sure the mixture is crisp and has no lumps
• Once golden brown, take it out from the oven and throw in the dried cranberries and dried apricot chunks. Mix well
• Once the mixture comes to room temperature, store it in an airtight container

Recipe Notes

Feel free to substitute the maple syrup with honey

Stays well for up to a month

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Nutrition Information

Serving: 100g | Calories: 385kcal | Carbohydrates: 46.05g | Protein: 11.32g | Fat: 24.66g | Saturated Fat: 2.482g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 11.141g | Trans Fat: 0.034g | Sodium: 93mg | Fiber: 8.5g | Sugar: 16.07g

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