Homemade Oats Granola | Glutenfreewhisk

 This homemade Granola is a perfect breakfast remedy for what to make and what to eat dilemma. I have that often and I end up making savory oatmeal or my favorite potato carrot and egg pancake. These two are my go-to breakfast options and I love them. They are easy to make and are a quick breakfast fix recipe. But this oats granola with all the seeds and nuts of choice makes breakfast even easier. All you have to do is take Greek yogurt, chop some fruits, drizzle some honey or salted caramel on top and have this oats granola with. Breakfast sorted. Healthy, easy, super quick breakfast fix.

I like to make my granola without any sweetener but with a little salt. It helps me keep a check on my sugar intake as I do not like eating sweet breakfast. As much as this sounds fascinating and super tempting, it is not healthy and I avoid it completely. Occasional slips, yes, more than I can keep a check on but I am only human. If you make the granola prior it makes things easier in the morning else if you have all the sweet time and look to make your breakfast fresh and enjoy it, you should try my apple pie oats breakfast recipe. Great flavors and it feels like you are eating apple pie in the morning. Hence, the name.

Breakfast homemade oats granola bowl is the best that you can have in the morning. It is sweet, it is healthy and you can pair it with seasonal fruit and have that as well in the morning itself. It is said not to stuff your stomach with coffee in the morning. I know for many people out there, coffee is the reason to wake up in the morning and that's me there as well, but when you have such amazing breakfast waiting for you, waking up for this granola breakfast bowl will be the new reason to wake up for. But have a lot of water before that, freshen up and then prepare to dig in this breakfast bowl.

I am enjoying my homemade oats granola with peach and some homemade salted caramel that I have made recently for my salted caramel vanilla ice cream and honestly it turned out to be so great that the bowl was finished within 2 days. You can replace salted caramel with honey or maple syrup or even chocolate syrup or any other fruit compote of your liking. You can check the recipe for black grape compote as well. 

This recipe of homemade basic oat granola is flexible, and you can add whatever seeds, nuts, berries or fat that you want to add. You can do the variations every time you bake this granola as home. I have used cranberries and black raisins in berries. For nuts I have used almonds and pistachios and for seeds I have used melon, muskmelon, pumpkin, sunflower, and flax seeds and for fat I have used desiccated coconut and ghee. This basic oat granola recipe is healthy and super flexible.

With so many options to buy from I am using Nutty Gritties dried cranberries and Nutty Gritties black raisins, seedless and they are soft, delicious, and my go-to. For oats I am using yogabar rolled oats as they are gluten-free, non-GMO and plain.

You can use these overnight oats jars to have your breakfast yogurt granola bowl. The better home overnight oats jar with a wooden lid and spoon. Pack of two, each being 680 ml. They are quite handy and multipurpose.

Fixing yourself some variations in regular oatmeal is now solved. Make your own variations of oat granola and have your healthy sweet breakfast sorted for every day.

INGREDIENTS - 

For Oats Granola

1 cup rolled oats

0.5 tsp ghee to grease the baking tray

A few pinches of salt

Half a cup desiccated coconut

Cranberries

Black raisins

Pumpkin seeds

Sunflower seeds

Melon seeds

Watermelon seeds

Almonds

Pistachios

Flax seeds

1.5 tsp cinnamon powder

For breakfast granola bowl and garnish

A Tulsi spring

1 Peach, Sliced in half thin moons

Salted caramel

Greek Yogurt

METHOD -

1. Grease a baking tray with ghee and preheat the oven at 170 degrees Celsius.

2. In the greased baking tray add all the oats granola ingredients except for desiccated coconut, black raisins and cranberries. Mix them all well and bake it at 170 degrees Celsius for 20 around 20 minutes.

3. As soon as you switch off the oven, add desiccated coconut, dried cranberries and black raisins over the baked granola and close the oven door.

4. After 10-12 minutes take the tray out and let everything cool on a cooling rack. Once cooled completely store this homemade oat granola in an airtight jar.

5. To enjoy the yogurt granola breakfast. Take Greek yogurt in the serving dish or overnight oats jar. Add your favorite, seasonal fruit. I am using peach. Put in the oat granola on the side and spread a generous amount of salted caramel on top and indulge.

Note - Do not add the desiccated coconut, dried cranberries and black raisins or any other dried fruit or berries prior while baking as it will burn. Read point 2nd and 3rd for how to add them and when to add them.

I haven't mentioned the quantity of seeds and nuts, and you can add them as you like. Don't overdo anything.

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Homemade oats Granola | Glutenfreewhisk