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Power Granola – Our Favorite Healthy Granola Recipe
One of our favorite things to eat for breakfast (and often as a snack as well!) is healthy granola. What is granola? Granola is a kind of cereal that consists of oats, a sweetener, dried fruits, nuts and seeds. The great part – you can mix it up and make a different version each time. And it is healthy and nutritious!
How to make granola? Here is our healthy granola recipe:
Ingredients
- 2 cups of steel cut or large flake oats
- ¼ chopped walnuts
- ¼ slivered almonds
- 1/3 cup ground flax seed
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/3 cup orange juice
- 1/3 cup honey or maple syrup
- ¼ cup brown sugar or coconut sugar
- 2 tsp. coconut oil
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/3 cup dried cranberries
- Cooking spray
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 300 degrees Celsius
- Combine the first 5 ingredients in a bowl
- Combine orange juice, honey and sugar in a saucepan.
- Cook over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Stir frequently.
- When cool, add oil and vanilla, and stir.
- Pour honey mixture over oats.
- Stir to coat.
- Spread into a think layer on a pan covered with cooking spray.
- Bake at 300 degrees Celsius for 10 min and stir well.
- Bake an additional 10 min, until golden brown.
- Store in dried cranberries
- Cool and enjoy
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Quick Tips:
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Vary the nuts, and add in seeds for more crunch and texture
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Switch up the cranberries for apricots, raisons or prune.
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Sprinkle on top of other cereal, on yogurt on as a stand-alone cereal with milk – yum!
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Written By: Dr. Dina Kulik, MD, FRCPC, PEM
Dina is a wife, mother of 4, and adrenaline junky. She loves to share children’s health information from her professional and personal experience. More About Dr Dina.
