Homemade Granola with Big Clusters
Homemade Granola is easier than you think to make and so delicious, a breakfast staple we always have on hand! It's high in protein, loaded with oats, nuts, seeds, coconut, and spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg! Honey gives it those nice big clusters, and a pinch of salt gives it that salty-sweet balance! The perfect topper for yogurt, applesauce, oatmeal, ice cream and smoothies, you'll never buy store-bought granola again!
Servings: 10 cups
Calories: 622kcal
Ingredients
- 5 cups regular rolled oats
- 1 cup almonds raw, sliced, chopped, or left whole
- 1 cup cashews, walnuts or pecans raw, chopped or left whole
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- ½ cup pumpkin seeds
- ½ cup sunflower seeds
- ¼ cup flax seeds
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 ½ teaspoons ginger
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ cup coconut oil melted
- ½ cup honey (or maple syrup)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup raisins or any dried fruit DO NOT BAKE, add after granola is cooled
Instructions
- Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl.
- Combine melted coconut oil, honey, vanilla and salt in a glass measuring cup and warm in the microwave until you can whisk it together with a fork.
- Add wet ingredients to dry and mix very well with a spatula. DO NOT add the raisins. Transfer to 2 parchment paper lined baking sheets (I reuse my parchment paper over and over a few times, just for granola--go green!).
- Bake at 250°F for 75 minutes without checking or stirring. When the 75 minutes is up, turn the oven off but leave the granola in the oven for a few hours until cool, this gives you nice big cluster granola!
- Add raisins and store in an airtight jar for up to 2 months.
Notes
- Substitutions - Any nuts or seeds can be substituted, just keep the amounts the same. Olive oil or avocado oil can be subbed for the coconut oil or use some of each. Chia or sesame seeds can be subbed for the flax seeds. Or you can use more oats in place of some of the nuts to make the recipe less expensive. Use what you have or make it your own, just keep the proportions of wet to dry the same.
- Don't Open the Oven to Stir the Granola! - Not stirring the granola while it bakes gives you the big clusters. When the timer is up, turn off the oven, but leave the granola in the oven for a few hours until it is cooled. Leaving your granola alone is what gives you the nice big clusters!
- Honey or Maple Syrup can be used in this recipe but honey will give you better clusters.
- Nutrition Information is for 1 cup of granola.
Nutrition
Calories: 622kcal | Carbohydrates: 68g | Protein: 15g | Fat: 36g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Trans Fat: 0.004g | Sodium: 267mg | Potassium: 606mg | Fiber: 10g | Sugar: 20g | Vitamin A: 5IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 93mg | Iron: 5mg