Healthy Homemade Granola
This Healthy Granola Recipe is so easy to make!! It's full of healthy ingredients and tastes amazing! Homemade granola is so much better than store bought!
Ingredients
- 5 cups old fashioned oats
- 2 cups shredded coconut
- 1 cup almonds (roughly chopped)
- 1 cup Walnuts or pecans (roughly chopped)
- ¼ cup flexseeds
- ⅛ cup chia seeds
- ⅔ cup coconut oil (melted) (olive oil or vegetable oil also work)
- ¾ cup honey (see notes)
- ⅓ cup maple syrup (you could use just honey)
- 1 cup cranberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Line a 21"x15" baking sheet with parchment paper, or use aluminum foil, then spray it with cooking oil.
- Inside a big bowl place all the dry ingredients. Mix it with a big spoon.
- Then, add the liquid ingredients (coconut oil, honey and maple) and mix it until everything is coated.
- Spread the mix in the prepared baking sheet, in a thin layer.
- Bake it for approximately 10 minutes. Remove the sheet from the oven, mix it with the help of a spoon, spread it again in a thin layer, and bake it for 10 more minutes, approximately. It's done when you can see it's lightly golden.
- Remove it from the oven and let it cool a little bit. Mix it with a spoon, breaking it up while still hot, if you like loose granola. Let it cool and then break it up in small chunks, if you like clumpy granola.
Notes
You can use olive oil or vegetable oil if you don't have coconut oil, although it will taste slightly different.
If you don't have honey you can make a syrup using brown sugar.
If you don't have a big sheet pan, you can use 2 medium sheet pans. Place them in the center rack, side by side and change places (right to left and left to right) halfway through the cooking time.
If you want to add chocolate chips wait for the granola to be cold. If you add them while the granola is still hot, the chocolate chips will melt.