Good for You Granola
Friday, December 30th, 2005
I confess, I have started on the “eat good for the New Year” bandwagon. There is something about starting fresh and clean after gorging for days over the holidays. OK I didn’t gorge that much but I ate a lot of desserts. So I have been trying to eat a balanced diet and getting plenty of calcium and a serving or two of soy. While grocery shopping I got a hankering for yogurt and granola. I was about to buy a box of low fat granola when I realized it would be cheaper and healthier to just make it myself. Though I have issues with most granola recipes as they call for crazy amount of oil or butter totally defeating the purpose in my book. So after some research I came up with this recipe inspired by my Good Housekeeping Cookbook. Throw it on top of some vanilla yogurt and you got yourself breakfast.
The good thing about granola is that you don’t have to measure too much and you can throw just about anything into it. I would stick with the measurements for the wet ingredients and the oats but after that, have at it. I threw in some sesame seeds which were really yummy. I would have liked to have had more nuts in this, but I didn’t have any so like I said just use this as a reference and adjust to your liking.
Healthy Granola
3 cups old fashion oats
3/4 cup honey
1 tablespoon of melted butter
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 cup slivered almonds
1/2 cup sesame seeds
1 package of dried fruit (I used the package of chopped mixed fruits)
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment and spread oats to a single layer. Toast for about 15 minutes until slightly browned, stirring once you will be able to smell them. Let cool.
2. Mix wet ingredients and in a large bowl add oats and nuts and seeds of your choice. Spread mixture onto baking sheet and toast in oven for about 15-20 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes or so. Keep an eye on this after about 12 minutes because it doesn’t take too much for it to burn. After nicely toasted let cool completely.
3. Break up pieces and stir in dried fruit. Store in air tight container.
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