Today’s Craving Ellie in My Belly recipe is Nutty Granola, chosen by Leslie at Lethally Delicious. It can be found on page #38 of “The Food You Crave”, by Ellie Krieger.
I found this to be a straight forward, simple granola recipe -easily made in about 45 minutes.  The recipe consists of oats, three kinds of nuts (almonds, pecans and walnuts), dried fruit (raisins), maple syrup, salt and cinnamon. Of course I substituted equal parts dried blueberries and chopped dried cherries for the raisins- because I have a limited love for raisins and breakfast cereal is not one of the places I like them. I also substituted pistachios for the walnuts because I was out of walnuts at the time. I know the walnuts add good omega fatty acids so I will add them next time -I promise.
The oats, fruit, nuts, cinnamon and salt are all bound together with 1/2 cup of pure maple syrup (the only kind we use at our house) and baked for only 30 minutes at 300F. I extended that time a bit to 40 minutes to get a better crunch and (I think) flavour. Turned out great.
I make granola fairly often and I add pureed fruit such as apple sauce or pumpkin plus more fruits and seeds to mine to increase the nutrition. But this one is nice and simple and quickly made. So- that’s a thumb’s up.
Go on over and check out the other nutty granola at the CEiMB site- you’ll be glad you did.
xo
Your granola looks great. Dried blueberries – yum. I wish I was addicted to the stuff to make some with dried blueberries.
Looks great. Interesting idea to add fruit puree,and I love the dried blueberries addition.
Great pictures! We really liked this recipe too!
I love your tweaks! Pistachios and dried blueberries, how creative! I’m big on using what I have on hand and it’s great when it works out so well! I’m glad you liked this recipe. Thanks for cooking with me this week!
Your granola looks great! I make my own too – nice to try new flavour combos though. 🙂
Oh your granola looks delicious. Very nice. I loved this stuff.