Homemade Granola Recipe - made any delicious way you like it!
Are you looking for a granola recipe that can be adapted in many ways to whatever flavor you love and in any quantity you need? Our granola recipe allows you to change up the flavors however you like, and I’ll give you several ideas on how to create the perfect homemade granola recipe that works for YOU!
10 Flavor Ideas for this Homemade Granola Recipe
You can use kind of nut butter, sweetener, dried fruit, chocolate, nuts, or anything else that might enjoy! This list is certainly not comprehensive, but it should get your wheels turning about how to modify our homemade granola recipe to make it what you love!
1. Cranberry Walnut
2. Cranberry Pecan
3. Blueberry Lemon
4. Chocolate Peanut Butter
5. Triple Chocolate (white chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate)
6. Maple Walnut
7. Maple Pecan
8. Cherry Vanilla
9. Cinnamon Raisin
10. Dates & Almonds
…and seriously any other concoction you can dream up! Our family favorite is chocolate peanut butter. We love to make a gigantic batch at once and get all the little kids involved in making it. It’s so fun for them to stir up big bus tubs full of oats and take turns stirring in the wet mixture. We always store this in a 5 gallon bucket for them, so they can just scoop it into a bowl and make it in cereal with raw milk!
This YouTube video is a variation of this recipe, but if you’re looking for some visual learning, this is a great base, too!
Homemade Granola Recipe
Equipment
- 1 Large Bowl
- 1 Wooden Spoon/Spatula
- 1 Pot for Stovetop
Ingredients
- 5 cups Rolled oats (not instant)
- 1.5 cups Any chopped nuts
- 1.5 cups Dried fruit
- 1/2 tablespoon Cinnamon (or pumpkin spice, chai, maple sugar, etc)
- 1/2 tablespoon Salt
- 1/2 cup Coconut oil
- 1/3 cup Maple syrup
- 1 cup Brown sugar
- 1/2 cup Nut butter of your choice (optional)
- 1 cup Any chocolate (optional)
Instructions
- Melt on the stove in a pot: coconut oil, maple syrup, brown sugar. If you're adding a nut butter, you can add a 1/2 cup of that now, also.
- In a large bowl, add oats, nuts, dried fruit, seasoning, salt. Mix up.
- Pour the melted stovetop mixture on the dry mixture. Mix well.
- Pour onto a parchment lined 1/2 sheet. Depending on your inclusions, you may spill onto a second 1/2 sheet.
- Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 30 mins. Shuffle around every 10 mins. OR bake at about 250, if you don't want to babysit it as much. When you're happy with it, you can leave it in the oven to continue to dry without direct heat, or pull it out to cool.
- If you're using chocolate, add it when it's hot, cool, or somewhere in between. This part is really up to you. Adding it when it's hot will make a coating, adding it when it's in between will give you a coating and some chunks of chocolate, and if you add it when it's cool, you'll have visible chocolate pieces to enjoy. Or skip chocolate altogether!
- This granola will keep for weeks to months in an air tight container. Once you make this, you'll love coming up with new flavor ideas! You can also freeze this, if you want to keep it long term!