How to make super Granola recipes with whatever is in your pantry?

    There is nothing better than mothers when they are equipped to serve their children delicious food which also adds up giving them abundant nutrition. Granola has time and again proved itself to be one of the finest foods when it comes to eating healthy. Here is how you can make your Granola even more interesting with whatever ingredients available in your pantry.


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Granola is a quintessential personalized breakfast meal. A blank slate of grains paired with a fruit and sweetener of your choosing unleashes a variety of flavour possibilities that can also be custom-made to fit your diet (vegan, gluten-free, and even paleo, if you skip the grains entirely and add in nuts and seeds). Variations abound in Granola! Choose sweet or savoury

Below is a list of ingredient options which can be combined to suit your taste. This is by no means a sweeping list. If something, then this is a starting point. Happy Cooking!


Grains:

Measure: 3 cups of rolled oats

Options include: Old-fashioned (not immediate) rolled oats, rye flakes, barley flakes, wheat flakes, spelt flakes, Kamut flakes, buckwheat flakes or groats, quinoa flakes or seeds, popped amaranth, millet, puffed rice, or use all nuts and seeds if you opt for granola free of grains.


Nuts or Seeds:

Measure: 1-11⁄2 cups

Nuts: almonds, walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, pistachios, peanuts

Seeds: Pumpkin, sunflower, flax, chia, sesame, hemp (keep up to 1⁄4 cup the ratio of smaller seeds such as flax, chia, etc.)

Optional: Another 1⁄2 cup of unsweetened coconut flakes


Herbs, Spices and Flavour:

Amount: 1-2 tsp of dried spice and 1⁄8-1 tsp of extract of flavouring depending on the type. You can use a full teaspoon of vanilla extract, for example, whereas you would like to start with 1⁄4-1⁄2 teaspoon of almond extract.

Possibilities include:

Herbs/Spices: cinnamon, vanilla powder, nutmeg, ginger, cardamom, cloves, rosemary, thyme, basil, fennel, chilli flakes, paprika smoked, grape

Extracts: vanilla, hazelnut, almond, coconut, maple, banana, rum, coffee.

SALT (a must-have for flavour balancing)

Measure: 3⁄4-1 tsp


Sweetener:

Amount: About 1⁄2 -3⁄4 cup, depending on how sweet you like it.


Note: When making savoury granola, the amount of sweetener you use should decrease significantly. Start with 1 spoonful of sweetener and adjust as necessary.

If you do not want too much sweetness in your granola you can get it unsweetened too.

Instead of traditional sweetener, you can subdue a portion of the sweetener in unsweetened fruit puree. Applesauce, pear puree, banana puree, etc.


Dried or Freeze-Dried Fruit, Optional and add when the Granola has baking finished:

Montant: 1 cup (more or less depending on how sweet you are looking for)

Options include: cranberries, raisins, blueberries, cherries, raspberries, strawberries, currants, goji berries, mulberries, golden berries, candied ginger, pineapples, bananas, pomegranates, figs, dates, mango, papaya, pear, apricots (which would be needed to be chopped beforehand) 


Add-ins Optional:

Cocoa powder: ¼ -½ cup, added in with the dry ingredients

Citrus zest, combined with the moist ingredients before mixing

Chocolate chips/chunks, quantity up to your discretion, added to cooked granola, cooled in.


To know more recipes of Granola check out our blog.


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