Almond Maple Granola Recipe

Preparation Time
Difficulty Moderately easy
Occasion Dinner Party, Party
Recipe Type Lunch
Cuisine Mexican Cuisine

This granola is good and crunchy with lots of sweet flavor, thanks to the pure maple syrup and dark brown sugar. It uses a lot less oil than some granola recipes. Can be made 1 week ahead.

Ingredients

Ingredient Quantity Calories Fat Cholestrol
Rolled Oats 3 cup 495 9.9
Blanched Slivered Almonds 1 cup 613.98 54.11
Wheat Germ 0.25 cup 61.98 1.51
Coconut Flakes 396 gram 2554.6 255.42
Sunflower Seeds 0.33 cup 271.77 21.12
Maple Syrup 6 tablespoon 312.6
Brown Sugar 6 tablespoon 601.92
Vegetable Oil 0.25 cup 495.99 56
Warm Water 2 tablespoon 0
Salt 0.5 teaspoon 0
Raisins 1 cup 448.5
5856.34 398.06 0

Preparation Method

  1. 1 Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Lightly grease a cookie sheet with sides, or a large cake pan with cooking spray.
  2. 2 In a large bowl, toss together the oats, Almond, Wheat Germ, Coconut, and Sunflower Seeds. In a separate bowl, whisk together the Maple Syrup, Brown Sugar, Oil, Water and Salt. Pour the liquid over the oat and nut mixture, and stir unTil evenly coated.
  3. 3 Spread out on the prepared cookie sheet. If you want some chunky bits, squeeze some small handfuls into little clumps.
  4. 4 Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes in the preheated oven, stirring occasionally unTil evenly toasted. Mix in raisin. Cool, and store in an airtight container at room temperature.