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Featured in Essential Flavours magazine: Autumn 2024
Spiced granola
This homemade spiced granola is a delightful blend of flavors and textures, perfect for a nutritious breakfast or snack.
Ingredients
- ¼ cup almond butter or other nut/seed butter of choice
- ¼ cup honey
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 5 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tsp ground mixed spice
- 1 tsp ground cardamom
- 1 ½ cups rolled oats
- ½ cup nuts roughly chopped
- 3/4 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
- 2-4 White easter eggs
- ¼ cup mixed seeds or pumpkin
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160˚C and line a standard-size baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine the almond butter, honey, vanilla, cinnamon, mixed spice, and cardamom and whisk until smooth.
- Add the oats, nuts, coconut, and seeds. Mix well until evenly coated.
- Transfer the mixture to the prepared baking sheet and spread into an even layer (use additional baking sheets as needed if increasing batch size).
- Bake for 20-25 minutes, watching carefully toward the end as to not let it burn. You’ll know it’s done when the granola is fragrant and darkened in color.
- NOTE: If you don’t toss the granola while baking, it will stay extra chunky, but if you want a more crumbly granola, toss/stir a bit at the halfway point to break up the clumps.
- Once the granola is visibly browned, remove from the oven and toss gently to let the heat escape.
- Cool completely on the baking sheet.
- Mix in the crushed easter eggs (or chocolate of choice)
- Serve with yoghurt of choice or milk
Notes
- White easter eggs can be swapped for any chocolate of your choice
