Breakfast or Anytime Granola

I love Granola but find the stuff in shops too sweet. This is a really easy recipe, tastes so good, is much cheaper and you can vary the ingredients based on what you like. I use this to sprinkle onto yoghurt, porridge and smoothies to give a tasty crunch. The kids love this on its own as a crunchy snack.

Ingredients

250g rolled oats
250g cups mixed raw nuts and seeds
100g dried fruit (apricots, raisins or cranberries
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
5 tablespoons of maple syrup
2 tablespoon of desiccated coconut
Zest one orange and a squeeze of its juice
50g melted coconut oil

Method

Preheat the oven to 160ºC/325ºF/gas 3.
Roughly chop the nuts, seeds and dried fruit and add to a bowl with the rest of the dried ingredients.
Drizzle over the maple syrup and melted coconut butter and finely grate over the orange zest and squeeze of juice, and stir well to mix everything
Spread the mixture out over a large baking tray in an even layer
Pop into the hot oven for 20 - 25 minutes, or until turning golden, stirring every 10 minutes or so to stop it from catching
The granola will go crunchy as it cools, so don’t leave it too long in the oven waiting for it to go crispy
Leave to cool then pour into Kilner jars ready for dipping into! Keeps for up to 4 weeks.