Granola Recipe ~ Easy and Healthy
Use this easy granola recipe for a fast and healthy alternative to store-bought granola. There are lots of add-ins you can use which makes it convenient.
Servings 14
Ingredients
- 4 cups oats
- 1 ½ cups nuts and seeds
- 1 teaspoon fine grain salt or ¾ teaspoon of table salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- ½ cup pure maple syrup or honey or combination of both
- ½ cup avocado oil or vegetable oil
- 1 - 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- ⅔ cups dried fruit raisins, cranberries, chopped dates, apricots, etc.
Optional
- ⅓ cup chocolate chips These are completely optional. Your family won't miss them.
Instructions
- Set oven temperature to 350 degrees F.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Take out a large mixing bowl.
- Add oats, salt, cinnamon, nuts, seeds. Mix together.
- Add avocado oil, maple syrup or honey, and pure vanilla extract. Mix together.
- Chop up larger dried fruit. Add in dried fruit. Combine.
- Spread on prepared baking sheet.
- Set in preheated oven. Bake for 12 minutes at 350 degrees F.
- Remove from oven. Use spatula to gently flip granola to bake the other side. (If adding chocolate chips, put them in now.)
- Flatten granola with spatula to have larger pieces (chunks of granola).
- Return to oven for another 12 minutes.
- Remove from oven. Set out on stovetop or cooling rack to cool for 45 minutes. It will come together and harden as it cools.
Notes
- To make honey granola recipe, use honey instead of maple syrup.
- To make gluten free granola, use certified gluten free oats.
- If you want to make nut-free granola, simply add seeds or peanuts.
- For chunky granola, press down on the granola before baking.
- Using parchment paper really makes this healthy granola easy to make!
- Store granola in an airtight container.