My mom is an amazing cook. She's an artist so I think her food is like her art. She just creates. She doesn't have recipes. If you ask her for a recipe she usually comes up empty-handed because she just made it up. But, I've asked her to write some of them down for me. The first recipe I have is her granola. I love it so much that it's dangerous especially when Stoneyfield Farms Vanilla yogurt is involved.
Ingredients:
6 cups oats
1-2 cups mixture of chopped nuts and seeds (e.g. walnuts, pecans, almonds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup honey
In a saucepan combine sugar, vanilla, oil and honey. Stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. In a large bowl mix oats and the mixture of nuts/seeds. Pour the warm sugar mixture over the oat mixture. Stir well. Spread out into a roasting pan or jelly roll pan.
Slowly bake at 275 degrees for 20 minutes. Stir, bake another 10-20 minutes. Watch carefully to avoid burned edges. Remove from oven and place pan on a baking rack to cool. Stir frequently while granola is cooling to avoid clumps. If you want to add raisins to the granola, add them after the granola has cooled.
3 comments:
How do you eat your granola? As cereal with milk? Or just plain by the handfuls? I want a good cereal one that is nice and crunchy....is this good for that? If so I am totally making it.
You can have it with milk but I like it with yogurt. It is nice and crunchy. Sometimes I just eat it by the handful because it's just that good.
Made it - love it. It's so good! And so easy to make. Do you know the nutritional/fat content in a 1/2 cup serving? I could probably figure it out...but just wondered if you knew. Thanks for the great recipe!
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