Build-Your-Own Homemade Granola
Choose your own nuts, seeds, dried fruit, sweetener and flavouring, then make this granola loose or clustered.
By Cookin' Kitchen
- Total: 35 minutes
Recipe
Build-Your-Own Homemade Granola
Choose your own nuts, seeds, dried fruit, sweetener and flavouring, then make this granola loose or clustered.
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- Prep
- 5 minutes
- Cook
- 30 minutes
- Total
- 35 minutes
Ingredients
Dry ingredients
Wet ingredients
For clustered granola
Equipment
- Oven
- Baking tray
- Baking paper
- Fork
- Large bowl
Instructions
Loose granola
Step 1: Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F.
Step 2: Combine the dry ingredients, excluding the dried fruit.
Step 3: Combine the wet ingredients.
Step 4: Combine the wet and dry ingredients. Taste and adjust to taste, adding more sweetener or fat if desired.
Step 5: Spread the mixture on a baking tray and bake until golden, approximately 35–40 minutes, tossing twice.
Step 6: Stir through the dried fruit. Cool, then store in an airtight container.
Clustered granola
Step 7: Preheat the oven to 140°C/280°F. Line a large baking tray with baking paper.
Step 8: Combine the wet ingredients, excluding the egg whites.
Step 9: Combine the dry ingredients, including the dried fruit.
Step 10: Whisk the egg whites with a fork until foamy.
Step 11: Mix the wet and dry ingredients in a large bowl, then mix through the egg whites.
Step 12: Spread the granola on the tray, making a hole in the centre like a doughnut.
Step 13: Bake for 45 minutes without stirring, until golden. Check at 35 minutes.
Step 14: Turn off the oven, leave the granola inside and open the oven door slightly. Leave it to cool in the oven; its colour will deepen and it will firm up.
Step 15: Once cool, break into clusters. Store in an airtight container.
Notes
Flavour ideas
For a classic fruit-and-nut mix, combine butter, honey, almonds, pumpkin seeds, chopped dried fruit, cinnamon and vanilla.
For an apple-pie flavour, use almonds and dried apples with the classic combination.
For an oatmeal-raisin-cookie flavour, use butter, honey, raisins, vanilla, cinnamon and a pinch of allspice.
For blueberry pie, use dried blueberries, skip the cinnamon and add a dash of lemon essence.
Try dried goji berries, or combine almonds with orange blossom flavouring.
For maple pecan, use pecans, vanilla, butter and maple syrup.
If using brown sugar as the sweetener, add it to the dry ingredients.
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 365 kcal
Estimated values; they will vary with the exact ingredients and brands you use.
About this recipe
Build a batch of homemade granola with your choice of nuts, seeds, dried fruit, sweetener and flavouring. Use the loose method for a mix you can stir, or the clustered method for larger crunchy pieces.
The same ingredient formula works for either style, but the methods differ: add dried fruit after baking for loose granola, or mix it in before baking for clusters.
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