Maple, vanilla, coconut, Pecan granola

A granola worth getting out of bed for.


Ingredients

  • 125g butter

  • 120g maple syrup

  • 90g liquid honey

  • 2 tsp vanilla paste

  • 500g rolled oats

  • 1 1/4 cup sunflower seeds

  • 1 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds

  • 3/4 cup brown sugar

  • 300g pecans, broken or roughly chopped

  • 2.5 cups coconut chips

  • dried fruit *see variations


Method

  1. Preheat oven to 170c bake

  2. Place butter, maple, honey and vanilla paste in a saucepan and cook gently over a medium heat until melted and combined.

  3. Place oats, sunflower and pumpkin seeds and brown sugar in your largest roasting dish and mix briefly then slowly stir in the melted butter mixture ensuring that all the oats and seeds are evenly coated and spread out evenly in the roasting dish.

  4. Bake for 15min intervals stirring every 15mins.

  5. After about 45mins add pecans, mix well to combine and continue cooking at 10min intervals stirring at each interval until everything is golden.

  6. Remove from the oven and transfer into your largest mixing bowl to let cool. At this stage the mixture is quite sticky as it cools and will stick together in a clump, so stir frequently with a large spoon to stop everything from sticking together as it cools. *see notes

  7. Once cooled stir though coconut chips and store in an airtight container.

  8. Add to order the dried fruit of your choice.

  9. Serve with whatever milk you desire & coconut yoghurt.

  10. Store for upto a month.


NOTES + VARIATIONS

  1. While cooling the granola will stick together and become one big mass. If you would like the grains separate, stir regularly or as I do often stir less frequent and break up with your hands which will create little crunchy granola clusters.

  2. Dried fruit: Think about flavours & seasons that work together. Favourites of mine are:

    Sliced papaya & mango

    Goji & strawberry or raspberry

    Fig, golden sultana & apple

    Fig & grated dark chocolate

  3. For that special morning:

    Add thinly sliced nougat, such as cherry or pistachio.

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