Granola

You can swap out any of the ingredients for your own favorites.


Mix together:

• 5 cups old fashioned oatmeal
• 1/2 cup peanuts
• 1/2 cup walnuts (very nutritious)
• 1/4 cup sunflower seeds
• 1/4 cup hemp hearts (optional..loaded with protein)
• 1/4 cup flax seeds (optional)
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1/2 cup unsulphured molasses..loaded with minerals esp iron (or 1/2 cup brown sugar)
• 2 tsp cinnamon

Bake on two cookie sheets for 5 to 8 minutes at 350 degrees then flip with spatula and bake 5 to 8 minutes more. Watch carefully… every oven is different. If you use molasses it can overcook faster. 

Remove from oven and return to mixing bowl. Do not let it stay on cookie sheets for long.. it hardens!

Add and mix:

• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries
• 1/2 cup shredded coconut (preferably unsweetened such as Bob's Mill)

Makes 8 and a half cups. I usually eat a cup in the morning with a cup of almond milk on it…yummy! Store in covered container in cabinet.

Note: The molasses has a slight bitterness.. especially if you overcook it but it also makes the granola smell like molasses cookies!

My own recipe adapted from several I've seen.