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May 12, 2014 8 Comments

Crunchy Power Granola…The BEST Granola EVER!



 

Crunchy Power Packed Granola

My friend Liz had been telling me about her favorite homemade granola recipe for a long time. I’m not a huge granola person, so I couldn’t figure out how she could be so excited about granola. Then one day she brought me a little bag to try for myself. HELLO!!!!! It was the best granola I had ever tasted. Perfect crunchy-ness, loaded with sweet, nutty flavor. I couldn’t get enough. I instantly found out I actually am a granola person.

Her recipe says to leave the cooked granola in the oven overnight. None of the recipes I’ve ever made say to do that so I thought it was a weird instruction, but after making it, I think that little tip is what gives the granola its perfect crunch.

My kids and husband love it. In fact, just today my oldest saw that there was only a small amount left in the container and instructed me that I need to make more today so we wouldn’t run out. He’s been eating it for breakfast and again for an after-school snack every day since I made it a week ago.

Crunchy, delicious and full of healthy goodness...BEST granola EVER!

Personally, I love it on yogurt! Liz swears it’s AMAZING on ice cream with chocolate syrup. I haven’t tried that yet, because we are out of chocolate syrup. Vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup are at the top of my next shopping list. However you eat it, you are going to love this crunchy and perfect granola! This stuff is fantastic!!!

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Crunchy Power Granola...The BEST Granola EVER!
 
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Prep time
10 mins
Cook time
2 hours
Total time
2 hours 10 mins
 
I like to make this at night so I can leave it in the oven overnight and wake up to perfect granola. You can add any add-ins you prefer to this versatile recipe. The oatmeal and sauce ingredients are the only things you need to measure precisely. The add-ins can be more or less according to your preference. This list is just what I did.
Author: Liz
Serves: 24
Ingredients
  • 10 cups Old Fashioned Oats
  • 2 cups Almonds, chopped, slivered, sliced whatever you've got
  • 1½ cups shredded coconut
  • 1 cup sunflower seeds, I used salted
  • ¼ cup flax seed mill or wheat germ
  • 3 tbsp chia seeds or sesame seeds
  • 1 cup honey
  • 1 cup oil
  • ½-3/4 cup peanut butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • ½ tsp salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
  2. In a large mixing bowl combine oats, and all other mix-ins (almonds, coconut, sunflower seeds, flax seed mill, chia seeds) and mix them until everything is distributed evenly.
  3. In a saucepan or in the microwave, gently heat the honey, oil, peanut butter, and salt until when stirred the peanut butter dissolves into the other ingredients. This step only takes a couple of minutes. Stir in the vanilla.
  4. Pour honey mixture over oats mixture and mix until well combined and everything is covered with honey mixture.
  5. Pour out onto a large cookie sheet and bake at 300 degrees for 40 minutes stirring every 10-15 minutes.
  6. Turn oven down to 200 and cook for 50-60 more minutes. Stir well and then turn oven off.
  7. Leave granola in oven for at least 2 hours but preferably overnight.
  8. Store in an airtight Ziploc bag or container.
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I have only tried peanut butter, but I’m sure other nut butters would produce a tasty result. You could also try subbing agave nectar for honey, but because agave nectar is sweeter than honey you will need to adjust the amount.

Keep it Real!!!

Maria

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8 Comments

  1. Ca

    December 27, 2019 at 11:58 pm

    Do you fit all of this recipe in one cookie sheet? Would I need to adjust the cooking times if I half the recipe?

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    • Maria

      April 2, 2020 at 12:24 pm

      I have done it on a large cookie sheet or in a large deep dutch oven pan. It is a little hard to stir on the cookie sheet.

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      • Kathy

        April 8, 2023 at 11:13 am

        I cut it in thirds and it fit nicely on a large cookie bar pan.

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        • Maria

          April 13, 2023 at 1:42 pm

          Great, I am glad to hear that!

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  2. Ala’

    August 25, 2020 at 2:23 am

    It’s a very yummy recipe, I just want to know how many grams is itineraries serving?

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    • Maria

      February 16, 2021 at 11:49 am

      I am sorry Ala, but I don’t have that information on my site.

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  3. Nancy

    July 19, 2022 at 10:56 pm

    This recipe sucked. I just wasted a lot of expensive ingredients. You said cook it over night. I compromised and cooked it for four hours. It’s BURNED. My advice to readers is to not follow this recipe. I am deeply disappointed. I’ll be lucky if my chickens will eat it.

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    • Maria

      July 23, 2022 at 4:56 am

      Hi Nancy, it sounds like you missed the line of instruction that says to turn the oven off and then leave it overnight in the turned off oven. I am so sorry you didn’t see that and it caused your batch to be ruined. This is actually an incredibly delicious granola. I hope you will give it another chance.

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