How to Make Granola With What Have at Home

Granola is a supremely healthy, comforting and customizable breakfast food. Crunchy, chewy, sweet, or savory, this staple needs simple ingredients. It combines all sorts of grains, fats and sweeteners to create something you will enjoy, whatever your tastes.

Here’s the point: the possibilities are wild!

Read on for how to create your new favorite granola with what you have at home.

the ratio: 4 parts dry ingredients : 1 part wet ingredients

example: 

Below is a starting point for ingredient options that you can combine. Feel free to include your personal favorites or anything that we’ve missed in the comments!

ingredients

grains
amount: 3 cups

nuts and seeds amount: 1 – 1½ cups  nuts: almonds walnuts pecans hazelnuts(photoed) cashews pistachios macadamias peanuts seeds: pumpkin sunflower flax(photoed) chia sesame hemp

(keep the ratio of smaller seeds, like flax, chia, etc. to no more than ¼ cup)

Optional: An additional ½ cup unsweetened coconut flakes

herbs, spices and favorings
amount: 1-2 tsp dried spice and 1/8 – 1 tsp of flavoring extract, depending on the strength

herbs/spices:

extracts: 

salt amount: ¾ – 1 tsp sweetener amount: approximately a ½ -¾  cup *note: decrease significantly for savory granola. Maple syrup honey agave date syrup brown rice syrup coconut palm sugar brown sugar maple sugar.

• Olive oi
• coconut oil
• grape seed oil
• butter
• ghee
• and nut/seed oils like hazelnut, macadamia, sunflower, almond, or walnut, etc.

other • Cocoa powder: ¼ -½ cup, added in with the dry ingredients • Citrus zest, added in with the wet ingredients before mixing • Chocolate chips/chunks, amount is up to your discretion, added in to baked, cooled granola. Feel free to halve the recipe if you are just looking to test something out. Yield: 12-16 servings Prep: 10 mins Cook: 45mins Total: 55mins   instructions

1. Preheat oven to 300°F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
2. Mix the dry ingredients together in a large bowl, including grains, nuts/seeds/coconut, spices, and salt.
3. Warm/melt the oil/butter, sweetener, and extract (if using) in a small saucepan over low heat. Mix together. NOTE: For clumpier granola, beat one egg white until foamy and replace 2 tbsp of fat mixture with it.
4. Mix the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients and stir together until coated.
5. Evenly spread mixture over the parchment-lined pan and bake until golden brown, approximately 30-45 minutes, stirring every 15-20 minute for flakier granola. For clumpier granola, don't stir the granola while it's baking, simply rotate the pan halfway through.