Sunshine Granola
- Ready In:
- 31mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Yields:
-
60 3 oz. Bags
- Serves:
- 60
ingredients
- 12 cups rolled oats, grain mix
- 2 cups cracked wheat
- 1 1⁄2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1⁄2 cup ground flax seeds
- 1⁄2 cup golden flax seed
- 5 cups dried apricots (chopped)
- 3 cups pecans (roughly chopped)
- 3 cups dates, dried & rolled
- 2 cups unsalted sunflower seeds (hulled)
- 1 cup orange juice
- 1 1⁄2 cups pure maple syrup
- 1 1⁄2 cups all natural pure honey
- 1 1⁄2 cups vegetable oil
- 3 tablespoons lemon peel
- 2 tablespoons mace
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
directions
- Preheat oven to 300°F and you will need 3-4 glass baking dishes approximately 9x13-inches.
- Using an extra large roasting pan combine the first 9 ingredients. making sure that all the fruit in coated with the flour; set aside.
- Using a large glass mixing bowl combine the next 8 ingredients. Whisking until it becomes emulsified & cloudy appearance.
- Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and mix throughly, this will take about 10 minutes to incorporate well.
- Divide into the baking dishes, making sure not to add more than 1" deep in any pan. Bake for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes (bottom to top of dishes), rotating the pans on the lower rack to the upper rack as well.
- Remove from oven stirring once again and let cool completely in pans.
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I'm A mother of 5; 2 sons & 3 daughters. I have 3 grandsons and I'm very happly married to the greatest man in the world. I've been working in the garment industry since I was 15 yrs old, the last 10 yrs I developed a custom cushion & sling dept., In my husbands furniture repair business, always telling people that life would be just perfect if I could work in the dirt(GARDENS) all day & play in flour all evening(bake). well, July 11,2006 I resigned from our company & I've been doing just that ever since.