Baked Homemade Granola (Lower Fat)

"By making your own granola you can reduce the fat and increase the richness of nuts and seeds. This is great alone as a snack or on top of yogurt or anything! For the mixed nuts and seeds you can use all or a mixture of slivered almonds, coarsley chopped walnuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and sesame seeds."
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
9
Yields:
6 cups (approx)
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ingredients

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directions

  • Set oven to 300 degrees.
  • Place oven rack to center position.
  • Lightly oil two large baking sheets.
  • In a large bowl stir together oats with nuts, seeds and spices.
  • In a small bowl stir together the warm water with maple syrup and vanilla.
  • Slowly pour the syrup mixture over the nut mixture; stir with a wooden spoon to combine.
  • Spread out on the greased baking sheet/s.
  • Bake (center oven rack) for about 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes to prevent burning, until granola is crumbly and golden.
  • Remove from oven and immediately stir in the raisins and apricots.
  • When the mixture is cool, store in an airtight container for up to 5 days or refrigerate for 1 month.
  • Delicious!

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Reviews

  1. I was looking for low fat/ lower calorie granola and found this recipe. Then I noticed that the calorie count is completely inaccurate. So I never even made it. You should really fix that.
     
  2. This flavor in this granola was OK. Mine didn't cook up nice and crisp ...so I don't know if it was because it wasn't cooked long enough or because of the water/maple syrup combination. I will finish this off, but move onto another recipe!
     
  3. Great granola recipe - the only fat content was from nuts and seeds. Sugar - natural fruit and maple syrup was just the right amount. I did need to cook an extra 20 minutes (I did 10-minute intervals stirring after each ten minutes.) This may have been due to having two trays in the oven at the same time, opening the oven to stir every ten minutes and swapping the trays around. Regardless, an excellent recipe!
     
  4. No use to me without a nutritional breakdown.
     
  5. I would love to know the nutritional values of this granola. Any chance?
     
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Tweaks

  1. I added 1/4 cup flax seed and instead of the vanilla and nutmeg, I added 1 tsp each of ginger, cinnamon and tumeric. I also added cranberries and some coconut!
     

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