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st_aurafinaI've been making my own granola for a while now. It's lots of fun to pile heaps and heaps of stuff in a bowl, like a bucket of horsefeed. And it makes the house smell amazing.
I keep tweaking online recipes to my own tastes, and then forgetting my tweaks, so I'm writing this one down. This is mostly based on Andy's Fairfield Granola, with extra stuff.
(lonelywalker, basically everything in this recipe can kill you, so please never make it.)
Dry ingredients: Weights are approximate! Best form of cooking ever!
500g rolled oats (I buy the 1kg box and use half of that.)
125g white sesame seeds (which is half a jar)
120g sunflower seeds
120g pepitas
120g raw almonds
120g skinned hazelnuts
120g walnut halves
120g wheatgerm
100g brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground ginger (I have to be strict with this because I'm a ginger fanatic andlilacsigil isn't...)
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
A few shakes of cardamon
1 teaspoon sea salt flakes
Wet Ingredients:
120g golden syrup
80g honey
2 tablespoons canola oil
Apple compote (which is basically 6 granny smith apples and 2 tablespoons of sugar with a bit of water, all cooked until mushy)
(I've also used tinned fruits or whatever I can scavenge from the pantry. Chop the fruit up a bit and drain off the syrup.)
Preheat the oven to 160 Celsius.
Warm the honey, golden syrup and oil in a small saucepan until it's runny enough to mix into the dry ingredients. (Like, on low on the smallest burner on the stove top.) You don't want it to boil or anything. Just be less viscous.
Get a big, big, big bowl. Put in the dry ingredients, mix them up, and make a well in the middle. Pour in the honey mixture, throw in the apple compote. Mix with two spoons.
Spread the granola on baking trays. Bake for 25 minutes and then turn it all over with a spatula. Bring the browned edges into the middle of the tray and push the goopier middle bits out to the edges. Bake for another 20-25 minutes but check on it. You don't want it to brown too much.
Let it cool. Break up the bigger lumps. At this stage you can mix in some dried fruit or whatever, but I haven't actually done that yet. Mostly the two of us fall upon the trays like wild animals and eat it all. (What's leftover we sprinkle on top of our breakfast cereal or eat with yoghurt.)
I guess this would make a good gift, too, if you put it in fancy bags. Maybe a good Christmas idea? (Don't like my chances of not devouring it wholesale first, but maybe by the time Christmas comes around, I'll be sick of it?)
ETA: We're now making it sans brown sugar, wth no noticeable loss of flavour. And for the record, the amount of tinned fruit that seems to work best is 600g.
I keep tweaking online recipes to my own tastes, and then forgetting my tweaks, so I'm writing this one down. This is mostly based on Andy's Fairfield Granola, with extra stuff.
(
lonelywalker, basically everything in this recipe can kill you, so please never make it.)Dry ingredients: Weights are approximate! Best form of cooking ever!
500g rolled oats (I buy the 1kg box and use half of that.)
125g white sesame seeds (which is half a jar)
120g sunflower seeds
120g pepitas
120g raw almonds
120g skinned hazelnuts
120g walnut halves
120g wheatgerm
100g brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground ginger (I have to be strict with this because I'm a ginger fanatic and
lilacsigil isn't...)2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
A few shakes of cardamon
1 teaspoon sea salt flakes
Wet Ingredients:
120g golden syrup
80g honey
2 tablespoons canola oil
Apple compote (which is basically 6 granny smith apples and 2 tablespoons of sugar with a bit of water, all cooked until mushy)
(I've also used tinned fruits or whatever I can scavenge from the pantry. Chop the fruit up a bit and drain off the syrup.)
Preheat the oven to 160 Celsius.
Warm the honey, golden syrup and oil in a small saucepan until it's runny enough to mix into the dry ingredients. (Like, on low on the smallest burner on the stove top.) You don't want it to boil or anything. Just be less viscous.
Get a big, big, big bowl. Put in the dry ingredients, mix them up, and make a well in the middle. Pour in the honey mixture, throw in the apple compote. Mix with two spoons.
Spread the granola on baking trays. Bake for 25 minutes and then turn it all over with a spatula. Bring the browned edges into the middle of the tray and push the goopier middle bits out to the edges. Bake for another 20-25 minutes but check on it. You don't want it to brown too much.
Let it cool. Break up the bigger lumps. At this stage you can mix in some dried fruit or whatever, but I haven't actually done that yet. Mostly the two of us fall upon the trays like wild animals and eat it all. (What's leftover we sprinkle on top of our breakfast cereal or eat with yoghurt.)
I guess this would make a good gift, too, if you put it in fancy bags. Maybe a good Christmas idea? (Don't like my chances of not devouring it wholesale first, but maybe by the time Christmas comes around, I'll be sick of it?)
ETA: We're now making it sans brown sugar, wth no noticeable loss of flavour. And for the record, the amount of tinned fruit that seems to work best is 600g.