Granola for the Skinny
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
4 cups
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
- 4 cups dry oats (old fashioned rolled or quick)
- 3⁄4 cup vegetable oil (sunflower is nice)
- 1⁄4 cup demerara sugar (or brown sugar)
- 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 teaspoon salt, to taste
- 1⁄4 cup seeds
- 3⁄4 cup nuts (almonds are great)
- 1⁄4 cup honey
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup dried fruit (keep aside)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350F (180 C).
- In a bowl, mix together all dry ingredients EXCEPT fruit.
- In a cup, mix together liquid ingredients (oil, honey, vanilla).
- Blend wet and dry ingredients together until oat mixture is thoroughly coated.
- Put mixture in a glass baking dish and bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and mix in dried fruit.
- Spread mixture evenly across the dripping pan that comes with your oven.
- Put back in oven and turn mixture every 5 minutes for 10-15 minutes until a very pale golden brown.
- Remove from oven and push into a mound, then leave to cool.
- When cool, crumble the mound with a fork and place in an airtight container.
- Enjoy.
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