Irish Oats Granola
Recipe: #7277
December 27, 2011
Categories: Breakfast, Snacks, Oats, Irish, Brunch, St Patricks Day, Oven Bake Gluten-Free, High Fiber, Low Cholesterol, No Eggs, Non-Dairy, Vegetarian, more
"I've been making this for most of my life! It can work with any quick oats, but it's really special with Irish oats. And of course, like any granola, it can be tailored to your tastes by adding raisins or craisins."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (128.9 g)
- Calories 576.5
- Total Fat - 38.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 5.6 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 23.7 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 53.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 8.6 g
- Sugars - 14.6 g
- Protein - 10.8 g
- Calcium - 44.8 mg
- Iron - 3.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.6 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
In large bowl mix oats, wheat germ, coconut, brown sugar and nuts.
Step 2
In a small bowl mix 1/2 cup oil, 1/2 cup water, vanilla, salt until thoroughly combined.
Step 3
Pour liquids from small bowl slowly into the large bowl and combine thoroughly (your hands work best for this step if you don't mind getting dirty)
Step 4
Then add the whole wheat flour slowly, combining a little at a time.
Step 5
At this step, it depends on your desire for really chunky granola or smaller granola to eat as a cereal. If you want smaller granola, skip this step. If you like chunky granola, add a teaspoon of canola oil and a teaspoon of water until it starts to bind into chunks. Keep adding equal amounts oil and water until granola reaches your desired chunkiness.
Step 6
Spread granola onto lightly oiled baking sheet. Bake at 325 for 45 minutes or so, stirring halfway through cooking time, until desired toasted color.
Tips
No special items needed.