Description
This homemade granola is the perfect gift from your kitchen!
This recipe is adapted from the Eleven Madison Granola.
Ingredients
- 2 ¾ cups rolled oats
- 1 cup shelled unsalted pistachios
- 1/3 cup pumpkin seeds
- ½ tablespoon kosher salt
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 cup unsweetened coconut chips or flakes
- ¾ cup dried sour cherries or other dried fruit, chopped (optional)
Instructions
- Heat oven to 300 degrees.
- In a large bowl, mix together the oats, pistachios, pumpkin seeds and salt.
- In a small saucepan set over medium-low heat, warm the sugar, syrup and olive oil for a few minutes, stirring frequently, then reduce the heat to low. Cook 7-10 minutes, until syrup mixture is a dark caramel color and gently bubbling. Remove from heat.
- Fold syrup mixture into the dry ingredients, making sure to coat the dry ingredients well.
- Line two rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper and spread half the granola mixture over each. Bake for 10 minutes then stir the granola in the pan. Continue baking another 1o minutes then pull the baking sheets and sprinkle half the coconut chips over each baking sheet. Return the baking sheets to the oven and continue baking for 10 minutes until golden brown and fragrant.
- Remove granola from the oven and allow it to cool for a few minutes before sprinkling half the sour cherries over each baking sheet. Allow to cool to room temperature before tossing the granola and remaining cherries together on the baking sheet then transfer to an airtight storage container.
Notes
I love a cherry granola and chop them up so I have a cherry in every bite, but you can leave them whole if you like.
Roy doesn’t love the dried cherries and prefers a granola without them. You can also use dried blueberries, apricots, prunes, or other dried fruits.
If you don’t find the large coconut chips or flakes and are using smaller coconut flakes or unsweetened shredded coconut, stir them in 5 minutes before taking the granola out of the oven instead of 10.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/2 cup
- Calories: 291
- Sugar: 10.4 g
- Sodium: 122.3 mg
- Fat: 20.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 24.3 g
- Protein: 3.4 g
- Cholesterol: 30.5 mg