Chewy Coconut Granola
"Chewy, sweet, and high in fiber. A delicious way to get your oats and fiber."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
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24-36
ingredients
- 6 cups old fashioned oats
- 1 cup wheat bran
- 1⁄4 cup sesame seeds
- 3⁄4 cup raw pumpkin seeds (shelled)
- 1 cup raw sunflower seeds (shelled)
- 1⁄4 cup flax seed (gold look prettier)
- 2 cups flaked coconut
- 2 cups raisins
- 1⁄2 cup extra virgin olive oil, plus
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1⁄2 cup honey, plus
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
directions
- Preheat oven to 275.
- In a very large bowl mix together oats, wheat bran, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and flax seeds.
- Combine in a sauce pan olive oil,honey, vanilla, brown sugar, and salt.
- Heat on medium heat until all are dissolved and form a "syrup".
- Pour the "syrup" into the bowl of dry ingredients and mix very well, try to ensure every piece is evenly coated, stir, smash, stir.
- When all is mixed well stir in coconut and raisins.
- Put half of mixture into a glass 9x13 baking dish and spread evenly without packing down.
- If you have two glass dishes you can bake both at once.
- Bake at 275 for 40 minutes, then leaving pans in oven, turn up oven to 325 and bake for another 12-15 minutes.
- Stir granola just once when it comes out and leave it alone to cool, if there are clumps do not break them up.
- Allow to COOL COMPLETELY before removing from pan or serving.
- Store in an airtight container or gallon size freezer bags.
- Serve with milk or soy milk or rice milk as you would breakfast cereal.
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Reviews
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Will update again once eaten but smells great, looks good. I added almond slivers and substituted Soy nuts (a little salted) in place of the pumpkin seeds. Used wheat germ instead of bran 'cause it was what was on hand. Also added mini choc chips with the coconut which MELTED (oops) but smells great ;). Didn't know how full the pan should be so almost filled to the brim on 2 pans (one was an 8 x 8 other a 9 x 13). Hopefully it comes out alright. Update: Everyone loved it. Toddler liked the chocolate milk he got when he had it for cereal. Nana didn't like granola with chocolate (not traditional enough--I agree too). DH liked the chocolate addition...so it was 3 of 5 liked it. -
This is awesome!!! It it a truly addictive snack.
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Very delicious, but different than I expected. Because of the word "chewy" in the title I thought it would be more like a granola bar. This has more of a traditional granola texture. Regardeless, it is very excellent granola! My DH had some with milk and said it was the best he had ever had. I made two versions: in the first I used 1 cup of dried cranberries and 1 cup raisins instead of all raisins. In the second version I used slivered raw almonds instead of the pumpkin and sunflower seeds, and cocoa nibs (simply chopped dried cocoa beans) for the raisins. Both versions are very good! Also, I used grapeseed oil in both versions instead of olive oil because I thought olive might have too strong of a taste. Grapeseed is very delicate and tolerates high temps well, and has the similar health benefits as OVOO (omega fatty acids). Thanks for the awesome recipe! All that fiber and raw seeds/nuts and healthy oil--very nutritious!
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So yummy! Even the kids love this!
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Very delicious, but different than I expected. Because of the word "chewy" in the title I thought it would be more like a granola bar. This has more of a traditional granola texture. Regardeless, it is very excellent granola! My DH had some with milk and said it was the best he had ever had. I made two versions: in the first I used 1 cup of dried cranberries and 1 cup raisins instead of all raisins. In the second version I used slivered raw almonds instead of the pumpkin and sunflower seeds, and cocoa nibs (simply chopped dried cocoa beans) for the raisins. Both versions are very good! Also, I used grapeseed oil in both versions instead of olive oil because I thought olive might have too strong of a taste. Grapeseed is very delicate and tolerates high temps well, and has the similar health benefits as OVOO (omega fatty acids). Thanks for the awesome recipe! All that fiber and raw seeds/nuts and healthy oil--very nutritious!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Some1sGrandma
Eugene, OR
I am the mother of three (one grown, one in middle school and one in high school). I have grandchildren who we invite over regularly to spend the night. We have lots of fun and a very full house!
I do all of the baking and my husband cooks all the dinners. He loves to BBQ and cook and he is GOOD at it! He is wonderful with the children and I appreciate him so!
I enjoy gardening, crafts, sewing, and crocheting, pets, and all kinds of "kid fun".
If I had a month off I would spend it somewhere on the coast with just my sweetie and a view of the sea. I would miss the kids terribly so I would have them visit us in the hotel (that of course has room service) on Thursdays,Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays for swimming, walks, beach-combing, dune climbing and dune buggy rides, movies, church, and the hottub!
