How to cook granola at home: recipes and tips

Healthy food is the trend of the gastronomic world. Granola is one of the options for a healthy breakfast, which is not only healthy, but also very tasty. It can be prepared in the form of a bar and taken with you as a snack. Do you want to be "in the subject" and not harm the figure? Then write down recipes for making granola at home.

Granola - what is it?

Granola is delicious, healthy and trendy. This is a variation of the American breakfast. Granola is a multicomponent dish, which is prepared from crumbly ingredients (oatmeal, seeds, nuts, granola fruit, etc.), connected by honey.

In the traditional American version, all dry ingredients are poured with fruit juice, orange, apple or grape.

Therefore, you can cook granola in two ways:

1. In the form of a bar, by pressing and baking a dish.
2. Pour your favorite ingredients with juice.

This is not to say that this type of snack breakfast is popular in Russia, but it is gaining momentum, as there are more and more adherents of good nutrition.

Some tips

How to cook granola? There are no difficulties in the recipes, the time costs are small, but the benefits are incredible. Cooking secrets are also available and they will bring the dish to perfection.

Homemade granola is much better than purchased: it has a minimum amount of sugar, there are no trans fats, flavors and dyes. And so that a healthy breakfast is successful, consider the following:

1. Use regular oatmeal, which is cooked for at least 10 minutes. Since instant ones not only do not bring benefits (although they do not cause harm), they also will not give the necessary friability.
2. Granola is baked in the oven and only at a temperature of 50 to 170 degrees Celsius - no more. So the dish will not burn, it is better compressed and does not lose its beneficial properties.
3. The option of cooking in a non-stick pan is not ruled out.
4. Store granola in the refrigerator or out of it, but in an airtight container. In this case, it must be wrapped in cling film. At room temperature, it can be stored for several days.

What does she eat with? How is it useful?

Before you cook granola at home, you need to figure out what to use it with. There are a great many additives.

Many note that the dish combines deliciously with the following:

• yogurt;
• milk;
• honey;
• bananas
• Strawberry.

You can also use friable granola as a topping for many desserts.

There are a lot of benefits in granola:

1. Normalizes digestion.
2. Removes toxins and toxins.
3. Saturates the body due to high calorie content. But it does not harm weight loss.
4. Lowers cholesterol.
5. Saturates the body with healthy fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and macronutrients.
6. Increases immunity.
7. Normalizes the thyroid gland and debugs the work of the cardiovascular system.

How to make oatmeal granola?

If you have never cooked a dish before, start with a simple recipe. Before preparing granola at home from oatmeal, stock the following ingredients:

• 4 cups (200 grams) of dry cereal;
• 3/4 Art. coconut flakes;
• half of Art. any seeds or nuts;
• Art. dried berries, for example a mixture of cranberries, cherries, raisins, goji berries;
• a teaspoon of ground cinnamon;
• 2 tsp vanilla
• a couple of tablespoons of wedge syrup;
• 2 tbsp. l any odorless vegetable oil;
• 4 tbsp. l liquid honey.

Now you can start cooking:

1. First of all, combine oatmeal, seeds and / or nuts, coconut in a bowl.
2. On a stove in a small saucepan, heat honey, syrup, butter and cinnamon. All are thoroughly stirred. Heat the mixture until it becomes liquid. As soon as the desired consistency is achieved, the mass is removed from the stove, add vanilla.
3. Pour dry ingredients in a bowl with a hot mixture, mix until smooth.
4. Preheat the oven. Parchment paper or foil is spread on a baking sheet. Spread granola, you can form individual bars.
5. Settle for 15-20 minutes and bake, stirring every 5 minutes. The baking temperature is not higher than 170 degrees Celsius.
6. And when the granola is cooked, dry berries are poured into it.

Cherry and Chocolate Recipe

The essence of how to cook granola at home is the same for all types of this dish. Bars with cherries and chocolate are also prepared on the same basis. You can take them with you anywhere, so a tasty and healthy snack is provided for you.

To make cherry chocolate granola, prepare the following ingredients:

• 100 g dried cherries;
• 200 g raw cashew nuts;
• half a bar of dark chocolate;
• 100 g raw almonds;
• quarter of Art. pumpkin seeds;
• half a glass of rice cereal;
• a quarter of 200 ml of agave syrup;
• 200 g of flaxseed;
• a glass of oil (coconut or almond);
• a pinch of sea salt.

How to cook granola without sugar, but with a surprisingly sweet taste:

1. First prepare the oven: preheat it to 170 degrees Celsius. Cover the baking dish or baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Cut chocolate, cashew nuts and almonds into small pieces. You can crumble these products.
3. In a deep bowl, combine all the dry ingredients together.
4. The oils are mixed in another small container.
5. The contents of both bowls are combined.
6. Semi-finished granola is spread on a baking sheet, covered with parchment paper, pressed on it a little to distribute the mixture throughout the form evenly.
7. Clean the dish in the oven without lowering the temperature, and leave it there for 15 minutes.
8. They take out the finished granola, remove the paper from the surface and cut into several pieces of the same size.
9. Each bar, if it is not currently planned to eat, is wrapped in cling film and put into a container.

Such snacks can be stored for several days at room temperature, and in the refrigerator for up to 14 days.

Green Buckwheat Granola

Next, we present a recipe for how to cook granola at home from green buckwheat. This version of the dish will perfectly replace any dessert, while fully saturating the body.

How to cook granola at home? To do this, purchase the following ingredients:

• 400 grams of green buckwheat;
• a glass of sunflower seeds (peeled);
• 6 tbsp. l coconut flakes;
• 20 dates;
• 3-4 tbsp. l cocoa powder;
• 3-4 tbsp. l honey;
• 3-4 tbsp. l any vegetable oil;
• a teaspoon of ground cinnamon;
• half tsp ginger
• some fine salt.

Stages of preparation of granola:

1. Sunflower seeds and green buckwheat (in full) are soaked in warm water for half an hour.
2. Dates are washed, stones will be removed from them, the flesh is cut into small pieces.
3. After half an hour, the water is drained, and the soaked ingredients are dried using paper - cereals should become crumbly. Pour them into a bowl, add coconut and chopped dates.
4. In a small saucepan, combine oil, honey, cocoa, salt, cinnamon and ginger together. All this is heated on a stove or in a water bath so that the mixture becomes more fluid.
5. Pour the liquid mixture into the dry ingredients and mix well.
6. The oven is heated to 175 degrees Celsius, and the baking sheet is covered with parchment paper.
7. Granola is spread on the paper, distributed so that it becomes one thin layer.
8. Bake the dish for half an hour, remembering to stir every 10 minutes.
9. The cooked granola can be cut into bars, or you can simply transfer it to a jar, optionally pouring a small amount of melted chocolate on it.

Multigranol

Fans of multicomponent dishes will appreciate the multi-dessert. Therefore, hereinafter we present a recipe with granola photo, how to cook this dish at home.

To get started, take:

• half a glass of almonds;
• 1.5 tbsp. oatmeal;
• half a glass of sunflower and pumpkin seeds;
• a quarter of sesame seeds;
• half of Art. l wheat germ;
• canola oil - 1/4 cup;
• Quarter tsp ground cinnamon;
• some salt;
• half a glass of honey;
• quarter of Art. drinking water;
• 2 tbsp. l light brown sugar;
• a cup of dried fruit, for example, apricot, cherry, raisins, dried apricots, dates, etc.

And now the granola recipe. How to cook at home:

1. First you need to heat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius. Parchment paper is lined on a baking sheet.
2. Dry foods are mixed in a separate deep bowl, that is, oatmeal, seeds, seeds, sesame, cinnamon and salt.
3. On a burner in a small saucepan, mix water, honey, butter and sugar and boil. At the same time, they often stir.
4. The liquid mixture is poured into dry ingredients, mixed thoroughly.
5. Semi-finished granola spread on a baking sheet, making it a thin layer.
6. Send the mixture to the oven for a quarter of an hour. During this time, you need to mix granola a couple of times. As soon as it becomes golden, it means it’s ready.

Then you can start eating immediately. You can store the dish in the refrigerator or at room temperature.

With apple

How to cook granola at home with the addition of an apple? You will need:

• 3 tbsp. oatmeal;
• half a glass of raw almonds;
• half of Art. seeds: pumpkin, flaxseed and sunflower;
• a tablespoon of unroasted sesame;
• Art. l ground cinnamon;
• 0.5 tsp chopped ginger;
• a glass of sour apple puree;
• 4 tbsp. l honey;
• a pinch of salt;
• couple of art. l olive oil.

Stages of the culinary process:

1. First, preparatory procedures: preheat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius, and cover the baking dish with parchment paper.
2. The following ingredients are mixed in a deep bowl: flakes, almonds, seeds, sesame seeds, cinnamon and ginger, salt.
3. In another container, puree, butter and honey are combined.
4. Dry ingredients are poured with liquid ingredients and mixed thoroughly.
5. Granola is poured onto parchment paper, a thin layer is made of it.
6. Sent in the oven for half an hour, stirring every 10 minutes.
7. The golden color of the baked granola signals the readiness of the dish.

No honey

Honey is often added to granola. But for those people to whom this ingredient is contraindicated, you can prepare a dish without it. However, it will have a higher sugar content.

Take:

• 3 tbsp. oatmeal flakes;
• Art. raw almonds;
• quarter of Art. vegetable oil;
• 1/3 sugar syrup;
• 0.5 tsp sea ​​or iodized salt;
• 100 grams of brown sugar.

Prepare homemade honeyless granola as follows:

1. As always, preheat the oven and cover the pan with paper or foil.
2. On the stove make a homogeneous syrup of oil, salt, sugar.
3. In a separate bowl, 100 grams of cereal is ground.
4. Mix flour, cereal, almonds and ready-made syrup.
5. Bake for half an hour.

American Breakfast

Is it possible to cook granola at home in a pan? How to do it?

We take:

• 100 g of oat and corn flakes;
• 2 tbsp. l wheat and barley;
• 2 tbsp. l peanuts
• 2 tbsp. l sunflower and pumpkin seeds;
• 2 tbsp. l granulated sugar;
• 2 tbsp. l raisins and honey.

And prepare:

1. Peanuts are crushed with a knife or blender.
2. Pour nuts, cereal, seeds, sugar into the pan.
3. Heat the contents on the stove until the ingredients turn into a viscous mass.
4. As soon as this, the pan is removed from the hot burner, while continuing to stir the dish so that it does not stick together. Do this until the mass cools down.
5. Raisins are added to the finished granola.
6. Pour honey and serve to the table.

Conclusion

Homemade granola is a great alternative to purchased cereals and granola. It will appeal to both children and adults, and will also be a good substitute for boring, boring breakfasts.