Granola

Ingredients:

• 90g butter
• 30g sugar (dry)
• 60g wet sweetener (honey, molasses, maple syrup or something else)
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 300g oats
• 150g nuts
• 100g seeds (pumpkin, sunflower, etc.)
• 150g dried fruits
• everything else (milled flax or chia seeds, superfood powders, etc.)

Methods:

• Preheat the oven to 150C.
• On the stove top, heat the butter, sugar, wet sweetener, cinnamon and salt until melted and well combined.
• Take off the heat, add oats and mix until every flake is coated.
• Cover a baking sheet with baking paper. Spread the oats in a uniform layer across the baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden but not yet blackening around the edges.
• Meanwhile, put a tray of nuts in the oven and bake for 10 minutes or until smelling lovely and starting to change color.
• Meanwhile, chop the dried fruits.
• Once the nuts are out of the oven, put a tray of seeds in the oven and bake for 5 minutes or until smelling lovely.
• Take the oats off the baking tray with the baking paper and let them cool down while still looking like a flapjack.
• Once everything is cooled down, chop the nuts and break up the oats into small clumps of crunchy goodness.
• Mix oats with nuts, seeds, dried fruits and everything else.

Notes: My favourite combination is almonds, sour cherries and cacao nibs. Apricots fit well into any combination. Avoid dried fruits that contain sweetners (like most cranberries).

Inspired by: Kitchn