Time
0 min
Serving
18 persons
Calories
347
My grandmother and I created this homemade granola recipe one day. It is currently loved and requested by the rest of my family, including my other grandma, who used to be anti-granola! My favorite ways to serve it are with coconut Greek yogurt or just in a bowl with milk. It's simple and awesome.
Ingredients
- nonstick cooking spray:
- old-fashioned oats: 4 cups
- ½ cups chopped pecans: 1 piece
- ½ cups slivered almonds: 1 piece
- coconut flakes: 1 cup
- vegetable oil: 0.5 cup
- packed brown sugar: 0.33333 cup
- honey: 0.33333 cup
- maple syrup: 0.25 cup
- ground cinnamon: 2 tsp
- vanilla extract: 2 tsp
- salt: 0.75 tsp
- cranberries: 2 cups (dried, optional)
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and coat with nonstick cooking spray.
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Mix together oats, pecans, almonds, and coconut in a large bowl. Set aside.
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Combine oil, brown sugar, honey, maple syrup, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir gently until mixture begins to boil; remove from heat. Pour over oat mixture and fold together until dry ingredients are well coated. Spread granola onto the prepared baking sheet.
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Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. Stir and continue to bake on the top rack until golden, about 5 minutes more. Remove from the oven and let cool for 20 to 30 minutes.
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Toss cooled granola with cranberries. Store in an airtight container.
