Simple Homemade Granola
There’s a lot to be excited about this simple homemade granola. It is easy to make, tasty, healthy, and it will make your kitchen area very aromatic because of the ingredients used. Check it out!
Simple Homemade Granola
Are you looking for a healthy snack that could be carried anywhere you go? How about a perfect match for your yogurt and ice cream? This simple homemade granola could be the one you are looking for. The recipe contains ingredients that are always available in every kitchen and the procedures are easy to follow. Also, this recipe is a perfect match if you are a vegetarian or consuming a plant-based diet.
Equipment to Make the Granola
In making our simple homemade granola, we will be needing a parchment-lined baking sheet, a small saucepan, measuring cups, measuring spoons, a large bowl, and a large or wooden spoon. Easy right? Most are readily available in our kitchen.
Ingredients of Simple Homemade Granola
For the ingredients, we just need the basics such as oats, crisp rice cereal, ground flaxseed or wheat germ, brown sugar, maple syrup, honey, vegetable oil, salt, vanilla, and non-stick olive oil. Usually, these are all part of your grocery list. It does not require an exclusive visit to the nearby grocery store. They are always in our pantry.
Instructions to Follow for the Granola
The procedure for this recipe is pretty simple that you just need to follow nine basic steps from mixing all together with the dry ingredients, heating up the wet ingredients, baking the mixture, and down to plating. For the specifics, you can proceed to our recipe card.
Storage of Simple Homemade Granola
In storing our granola recipe, we should keep it in an airtight container to ensure its freshness and to lengthen its shelf life too.
What to Do so that the Granola won’t Stick?
Indeed a good question. If one wishes to keep the granola from clumping together, you can stir the mixture every five minutes or as it cools.
After following all these, you are ready to serve your simple homemade granola to your guest. It is best with yogurt or ice cream. Enjoy!
Homemade Granola
Equipment
- Parchment lined baking sheet
- Small sauce pan
- Measuring cups
- Measuring spoons
- Large bowl
- Large or wooden spoon
Ingredients
- 5 cups oats
- 1 1/2 cups crisp rice cereal
- 2-3 tbsp ground flax seed or wheat germ
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Non stick olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees
- Combine oats, riced cereal, salt and flaxseed in a large bowl and set aside.
- In a small saucepan melt brown sugar, maple syrup, honey, and oil.
- Remove from heat once melted and stir in vanilla.
- Pour the sauce over the ingredients in the large bowl and fold in until well incorporated (it may still look dry that’s okay)
- Spray baking sheet with a light coating of non stick olive oil
- Pour mixture out onto it
- Bake for 10 mins. Stir then bake another 10 mins.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 20-30 mins
- Stir the mixture every 5 mins so it doesn’t clump together.
- Store in an airtight container.
Notes
Serve over yogurt or ice cream
