Cereal, Homemade Granola, a Holy Cow it’s That Easy? Recipe

This sounds delicious!! Do you happen to have nutrition info on it off hand? I am not a granola freak, but it is a nice treat with some yogurt as a parfait! 

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Will try making this for my family, I think they are going to love it.

Ooh, wonderful. My kids eat a boatload of granola - by the handful, with milk, with yogurt...everything. It's too expensive to buy all the time so I limit it. I've made it before but didn't really think about it again. I'm making this tonight while I watch a movie. Couldn't be simpler for a healthy breakfast!

Might want to consider cooking the granola mixture at under 170 degrees for longer if you use nuts. The higher temperatures have bad effects on the oil in the nuts which causes them to be less healthy than low temperature roasted nuts. Most nutritionists will confirm that buying raw nuts and roasting them yourself at lower temperatures will give you a much healthier snack than store bought nuts which are roasted at 250-300 degrees.

Roasting nuts at a temperature higher than 170F will cause a breakdown of their fats and the production of free radicals. When nuts roasted at the high temperatures used commercially are consumed, the free radicals they contain can cause lipid peroxidation-the oxidizing of fats in your bloodstream that can trigger tiny injuries in artery walls-a first step in the build up of plaque and cardiovascular disease.

Just some advice to help keep the great recipe you have even better for you.

that is definitely easy, awesome

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We make our own granola all the time! I use my dad's old recipe....he said that you basically don't have to measure as long as you know what it's supposed to smell like...LOL. We use dried apricots, dried apples, raisins, etc....whatever we've got layin around. We have to buy Gluten Free Rolled Oats...by Bob's Red Mill....but even at that crazy "gluten free" price, it's STILL much more cost effective than buying the HORRIBLE gluten free granola that they sell, ready made, at the store. That stuff's AWFUL! When I make this, every BITE gets eaten! Even my 5yr old chows down!

We love homemade granola. I use the crockpot on low instead of the oven. It takes about 4 hrs, I think. I love the commenter's suggestion of adding wheat germ. I'll try that next time!

I love to puree some fruit with honey, brown sugar and peanut butter - then I've found that I can reduce the amount of oil to no more than a couple of Tablespoons (actually, a "glug" or so!) - it bakes up just fine, with an underlying fruity flavor. My current batch of granola has bananas, plenty of peanut butter, cinnamon, dates and roasted peanuts - and it's great.

Heather, can't wait to make this over the weekend. I can already picture the additives I want to throw in, after it bakes of course.

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The first batch of granola I made, the kids actually thought it was too sweet (!) so I cut the sugar to a heaping quarter cup and a scant 1/2c of honey (using Craisins ups the sugar, too.) And I make a 1/2 batch, spread it on pizza screens (no stirring!) above silicone mats (easy cleanup!) and bake it in my convection microwave at 225º for 30 min, because we like the slightly undercooked, clumpy granola.
Thanks to granola, we haven't had a box of cereal in the house for almost two years! (And I love summer, because I only need to cook breakfast about twice a week! :)

For clarification are you talking soaked rolled or steel cut oats? Additionally, do you press the extra moisture out? Just drain?
And how much longer does it need to be cooked? (These are the steps I thought would make it annoying)

When you say thick cut oats, do you mean steel cut?

This has been on my mind lately--I was sort of planning, well not planning but wanting, to make some granola but hadn't gotten around to it. I have a cookbook that has a couple of recipes for it, and my husband made it a few times in the past (it was really good). I've recently bought peanut oil to replace corn and canola oil since I read that both corn and canola oil are made from GMO's in the U.S. It may be that peanut is too, but I haven't read that so far. Anyway, I think we'd eat the granola pretty quickly, so I don't expect we'd have to worry about it going rancid. Thanks for the recipe!

Also, can you maybe buy your oatmeal by mail order more easily? I haven't tried, but it seems like maybe there would be a way to get it in bulk that way too. Since we live up in the mountains, I've learned to buy more and more things by mail, mostly from Amazon. I have bought some groceries from them at pretty good prices.

I love granola! We grew up eating it, but Mom rationed it. Not sure why. She never rationed Cherrios or Corn Chex, which are more expensive than homemade granola. I think she didn't want to make it all the time! I don't ration what I make.

I don't know if I would use peanut oil, though. I once bought some to make a stir fry recipe that called for it, and what I didn't use I put in the fridge. A month or two later it was rancid. IN THE FRIDGE! I prefer coconut oil, which won't go rancid or even alter at that temperature, and it has such a delicious taste! Or I'll use grape seed oil, which doesn't seem to alter the flavor.

Anyhow, I hope that your readers who haven't tried making their own granola will try it. It's not hard, and sooooo delicious!

I love granola, but have never tried making it. I will have to try this. Can any dried fruit be added? How about freeze dried?

Help me, all-knowing Home Ec mentor! I'd been making a similar recipe for my family, but then I learned that oats should be soaked overnight before use to break down phytates, which can prevent mineral absorption in the body. What do you know about this? Can you make decent granola from gooey soaked oats?

Thank you!

We make our granola, too! It's my husband's favorite. We also add in 1/3 cup sesame seeds and 1/2 cup wheat germ. I think there's something else, but I'm forgetting. I'm turning out to be quite sensitive to sugar, so we've cut out the brown sugar and I think it tastes even better (and healthier!) but I realize that could just be me. Enjoy your granola!