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Home Made Power Granola – low in sugar, packed with protein!

17th March 2021 By Catherine

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Granola is a great breakfast – usually packed with lots of nuts, seeds and oats, providing slow releasing energy and goodness. But many of the ones you buy in the shops are full of sugar (including too much honey). This home-made version is easy to do, and also much cheaper than the artisan granolas you can buy. My kids love it… and I hope you and yours do too! 

There’s nothing more delicious than the smell of a freshly baked batch of granola.  If you make a super healthy one like this – you can also use it as a tasty dessert, sprinkled over yoghurt or some stewed fruit, or just on a lovely fresh, fruit salad. 

My top tips for a healthy granola: 

  1. Make sure you use unrefined, rolled or jumbo oats.  The instant, refined oats don’t have so much fibre or goodness. 
  2. Add some blackstrap molasses if you have it – it’s such a great source of iron and calcium.  You can get this from most health food stores. 
  3. Add lovely spices such as cinnamon – which may help to balance blood sugar levels. A natural way to sweeten and add flavour. 
  4. Always add nuts and seeds for extra protein and healthy fats.  I like to put in pumpkin seeds for zinc, plus sunflower seeds for magnesium.  You could also add some Brazil nuts for added selenium. 
  5. Vary your grains – you can also use other grains such as buckwheat and quinoa, which you can buy as flakes from health food stores.  Use half oats, and half mixed other grains.  
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Home made power granola

One of my favourite recipes for a power packed breakfast... delicious, nutritious, full of protein and healthy fats, plus it's low in sugar.
Total Time50 minutes mins
Servings: 8

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp blackstrap molasses
  • 6 tbsp coconut oil
  • 2 tbsp maple syrup or honey
  • 350 g oats, rolled or jumbo, not instant
  • 50 g dessicated coconut, unsweetened
  • 50 g pumpkin seeds
  • 50 g sunflower seeds
  • 75 g almonds or pecans, Or mixed nuts
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp all spice
  • 50 g chopped dried fruit, eg raisins, unsulphured apricots

Instructions

  • Melt the coconut oil, molasses and maple syrup in a pan over a gentle heat. Let it cool a little.
  • In a large bowl, mix together the dried ingredients (oats, coconut, nuts, seeds, cinnamon, all spice, salt). You can add the dried fruit here, but it does go a little crispier in the oven. If you want to keep your fruit softer, then add it afterwards.
    home made granola dry ingredients
  • Pour over the wet, melted ingredients. Stir well... then spread out onto a greased or lined baking sheet, and put in the oven at 150C for around 15 minutes.
  • Watch it – as it can burn suddenly. After 15 minutes, give it a good stir and spread out again. Bake for another 15 minutes, check to see if it’s crispy. It can take up to 45 minutes... just keep checking. It should be fairly crispy, and a little bit toasted.
  • Cool before serving and storing. You can keep in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.
    This is really nice served with some plain natural yoghurt – either have a good handful of granola and a little yoghurt, or have lots of yoghurt, some fruit and sprinkle the granola on top!
My kids also love to snack on this granola after school, with some yoghurt and fruit!

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Summery Superfood Salad

My 3 Favourite Low-Carb Energy Boosting Lunches

Super Simple Crust-Less Egg Muffins 

No Bake Apple Crumble

Filed Under: Breakfast, Featured, Recipes & Meal Ideas, Snacks, Sugar Detox Tagged With: home made granola, low sugar breakfast, low sugar granola

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