This Apple Cinnamon Granola is the perfect healthy breakfast! It's sweet and loaded with seasonal flavors, packed with crunchy walnuts and sweet apples. It's made with simple wholesome ingredients and without refined sugar.
Prep Time5 minutesmins
Cook Time20 minutesmins
Total Time25 minutesmins
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American, International
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½cupdried fruitsI used cranberries and goji berries
Instructions
Start with preparing and measuring all the ingredients. Use measuring cups. Melt coconut oil and leave it to cool at room temperature. Chop apple chips into small peices. Roughly chop the walnuts.
Preheat the oven to 325F/170C. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
Place oats, hemp seeds, cinnamon, nutmeg, coconut sugar (if using) and pinch of salt in a large mixing bowl. Mix everything with a spoon or spatula.
In another bowl, mix honey with coconut oil and vanilla until you get nice sticky mixture. Use the whisk.
Pour the wet mixture over the dry ingredients. Mix with a spatula until all of the dry ingredients are coated in the wet mixture.
Mix in chopped walnuts.
Spread granola onto the prepared baking sheet and flatten it into one layer.
Bake for 10 minutes and then stir granola to make sure everything bakes evenly.
Continue baking for another 10 minutes until granola is a nice golden. Watch not to over-bake and burn the granola.
Take granola out of the oven and mix in dried fruits and chopped dried apples.
Leave granola on the baking sheet to cool completely, for about 30 minutes. DO NOT STIR granola or you'll break clusters.
Store granola in an airtight glass container.
Notes
Makes around 10-12 serving. The typical serving size of granola is up to ⅓ cup.Substitutions
I used rolled oats. They give denser chewier granola clusters. You can substitute them with quick oats.
You can substitute walnuts with other nuts, or a mix of different nuts.
You can substitute honey with pure maple syrup or date syrup.
You can substitute dried cranberries with raisins, sultanas, or currants. Dried chopped dates are excellent too.
You can substitute coconut oil with avocado oil. Other oils won't work well here.
Storing granola
Store granola in an airtight, glass container at room temperature.
It will last for 3-4 weeks.
As a measure, I used US cup (240ml). See "Recipe variations" and "Recipe tips" for more info about the recipe.