VANILLA ALMOND GRANOLA
This is the granola that started it all, my sister gave us a big jar and I immediately fell in love with homemade granola. That was in April.
I’m still all over granola now. I can’t get enough of it! I love pairing a huge bowl of granola over a small spoonful of greek yogurt w/ fresh fruit piled high.
My yogurt to granola ratio is a little off, I love a massive amount of granola and not nearly as much yogurt. Oops.
Some of my favs include sliced strawberries, fresh raspberries, and plump blueberries. I reccomend pairing those with this flavorful vanilla almond granola or…
this mouth watering chocolate chip granola that I devoured in less than one week.
The recipe today is more simple than the last.
Its a liquid mixture of coconut oil (whoop whoop), vanilla essence, and maple syrup. And a dry mixture of oats, sliced almonds, cinnamon, and salt. And then you mix them all together and bake it for an hour! It’s easy peasy.
I think that this granola is much more versatile then the chocolate one. I wasn’t complaining about eating chocolate chips at 9 AM in the morning but hey not everyone is a choca-holic like myself.
I love how this granola bakes in the oven with the coconut oil, some of the pieces get extremely crispy on the verge of being burnt and the flavors are heavenly. I get really excited when I bite into an extra crunchy little piece.
VANILLA ALMOND GRANOLA
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups rolled oats
- 3/4 cup sliced almonds
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon vanilla essence
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Toss all dry ingredients in a large bowl together; the oats, salt, cinnamon, and almonds. Set aside.
- Combine the wet ingredients in a small bowl, melt the coconut oil and combine with maple syrup and vanilla essence.
- Toss wet and dry ingredients together and lay out on the baking sheets. Bake for 45 minutes tossing every 15 minutes. Let it cool completely and store in an air tight container.
Notes
[my sister made me that adorable sign when she first made this granola for me; reduce reuse recycle…]
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