Homemade, Healthy Granola Recipe

Looking for a homemade granola recipe? Here is our family favorite recipe as well as several suggestions for how to eat it!

3 cups quick oats

1 cup almonds; chop them in the food processor after measuring

¾ cup coconut

1/3 cup wheat germ

¾ teaspoon salt

¼ cup PLUS 2 tablespoons brown sugar

Mix all of these ingredients together in a large bowl. Then add:

¼ cup vegetable oil

¼ cup PLUS 2 tablespoons maple syrup

1 tablespoon vanilla.

Mix all of the ingredients together and spread the mixture out on a greased cookie sheet. Bake the mixture at 250 degrees for one hour and fifteen minutes. Make sure you stir the granola every 15 minutes!

We use this basic recipe on top of yogurt, or as a cereal. It tastes great any way you eat it (and believe me- there are times that I can't stop myself from eating it right out of the jar!)

You can modify this recipe by adding raisins, dried cranberries, or dried blueberries. You could also add larger dried fruits, such as apricots, just make sure to chop them first. We add chocolate chips (after baking) in addition to fruit pieces for when we are using the granola on a hiking trip for an added energy boost.

If you aren't fond of almonds, or if you want to change up the flavor try substituting pecans or walnuts. I have used ½ cup pecans and ½ cup almond mix and it tasted wonderful!

You can also try adding in seeds. Pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, or even sunflower seeds for added protein and energy.