One of my favorite types of breakfast food is granola. What I don't love about granola is all the sugar, fat and processed junk that gets added to it when I buy it from the grocery store. Hence, homemade granola. Mind you, this is only one of a zillion granola recipes that can be found online. I particularly like this version because it includes extras like wheat germ and flax seeds.
Also of note, I thought the amount of molasses and canola oil was a bit excessive so I cut out about 2/3 of it. And secondly, I ran out of cinnamon so I actually substituted 2 t. of pumpkin pie spice instead of cinnamon and ginger.
Homemade Granola
4 cups old-fashioned oats
1 cup toasted wheat germ
1/2 flax seed
1 1/2 t. cinnamon
1 1/2 t. ginger
1 cup unsalted sunflower seeds
1 cup chopped walnuts
5 T. blackstrap molasses
1/3 cup canola oil
1/3 cup water
A couple handfuls of your favorite dried fruit like cranberries, raisins, dates, apricots, etc.
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Mix dry ingredients in one bowl. Mix wet ingredients in a second bowl.
** In this recipe, I only ended up using a little more than 1/3 of the wet ingredient mixture so use your discretion.
Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix to combine. Spread mixture over two baking pans and place in middle rack of oven. Bake, stirring every 20 minutes for even cooking, until dry and lightly browned for about 45 minutes. Cool in pan and transfer to airtight container. Can be stored for up to 1 month.
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