The Absolute Best Homemade Granola
 
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Once you have tasted this high-quality, kind of fancy, and really delicious homemade granola, you will never eat store-bought granola again. You will love every crunchy bite loaded with oats, nuts, dates, raisins, seeds, and coconut--a perfect combination.
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Recipe type: Breakfast/After School Snack
Ingredients
  • Dry ingredients:
  • 12 cups old-fashioned oats
  • 5 cups whole wheat flour
  • 8 cups chopped dates
  • 3 cups chopped pecans
  • 1 cup chopped or sliced almonds
  • 2 cups sunflower seeds
  • 2 cups raisins (I like to use half regular and half golden.)
  • 2 cups shredded unsweetened coconut
  • 1 cup sesame seeds
  • Wet Ingredients:
  • 2½ cups melted coconut oil
  • 2½ cups honey
  • 3 cups water
  • 2 tbsp salt
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Spray 4 cookie sheets with cooking spray and set aside.
  3. In a huge mixing bowl, mix all the dry ingredients together.
  4. Next, in a stand mixer, blend all the wet ingredients together.
  5. Pour the wet mixture over the dry mixture and thoroughly mix everything together.
  6. Spread the granola mixture evenly onto the 4 prepared cookie sheets.
  7. Bake each sheet at 250 degrees Fahrenheit for 1 hour, stirring the mixture every 20 minutes. You can bake two sheets at a time, staggering them with one on the top rack and one on the bottom and switching them halfway through.
  8. When the granola is nice and crisp, remove it from the oven and let it completely cool down.
  9. Store the granola in an airtight container or Ziploc bags for up to 1 week on the counter or up to 3 months in the freezer.
  10. Enjoy!
Recipe by Real Life Dinner at https://reallifedinner.com/the-absolute-best-homemade-granola/