Chocolate granola

We recently purchased a bulk amount of rolled oats for our porridge-loving daughter. My hubby also loves granola or muesli as we tend to call it here in Australia. I have wanted to make my own for a long time and it is so easy!

Whilst searching for a recipe to get a rough idea or proportions I came across an article about Sanitarium, a large food company in Australia throwing their weight around about trademarking the word "granola" in Australia: Sanitarium lays down law against cereal offender chefs. I wonder what Mr Kellogg what make of it all, the poor chap would be turning in his grave. Anyway, back to my granola recipe.

The flavour was beautiful for us and I was pleased to see my hubby not adding any raw honey to sweeten it. I think you could play around this with recipe. Add or exchange various dried fruits, double the cinnamon and nutmeg portions, add fresh ginger, cacao nibs, dessicated (dried) coconut, superfood powders.

Home-made granola served with raw hemp milk

This is very low in sweetener. All of my ingredients are organic, gmos and pesticides are not helpful for starting the day.

Yields/Servings: 6 cups

Preparation time: 5 mins
Cooking time: 25 to 30 minutes

Dry ingredients
5 cups rolled oats
1 cup sunflower seeds
1/2 cup black sesame seeds
1/2 cup chia seeds
1/2 to 1 cup nuts of your choice
1/2 cup psyllium husks
1 tbsp lucuma
1/2 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup raw cacao powder
 1 cup goji berries (you may prefer to add after cooking)

Wet ingredients
3 tbsp virgin coconut oil
1/2 cup to raw honey or other substitute

Preheat over 180c (160c Fan Forced Oven/320 F/Moderately Slow). Line a large baking tray with baking paper. Add dry ingredients to a bowl and mix well.

If coconut oil and/honey is hard, warm on a low heat to a syrup consistency. Add syrup to dry ingredients and mix well. Place mixture into baking tray.

Stir mixture a few times. 

Cultural serving suggestion: 

Sunday morning sit on the couch and put on Alan Parker's 1994 comedy, "The Road to Wellville" DVD. Starring a barely recognisable Anthony Hopkins as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Health Institute, Michigan. I loved Matthew Broderick, Dana Carvey and Bridget Fonda in this. Also stars John Cusack, Colm Meaney and Lara Flynn Boyle.