How to Make Granola

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Granola is a healthy and nutritious cereal, not just a filling for granola bars. Making your own at home is a great way to control what goes into it and you can make it as healthy as you like.

Ingredients

For Dry Mix

• 3 cups rolled oats (like Quaker Oats)
  
• 1 cup Walnuts, chopped
  
• 1/2 cup Almonds, sliced
  
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries
  
• 1/2 cup golden raisins
  
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
  
• 1/4 tsp. salt
  

For Binder

• 1/2 cup Canola oil
  
• 1/2 cup Honey
  
• 2/3 cup brown sugar (see Tips)
  

Steps

1. Use your hands to mix dry ingredients well in a very large bowl.
   
2. Bring binder ingredients to a boil in a small saucepan, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon until ingredients are throughly mixed, 1-2 minutes.
   
3. Pour some of the binder in a thin stream over the dry mix, and mix with a wooden spoon. Mix well before adding more binder. Continue adding binder and mixing until you have the consistency you want.
   
4. Add more binder for a sweeter/sticker mix, less for a drier, less sweet mix.
   

Tips

• Using dark brown sugar gives a strong molasses taste, if that's not your favorite flavor use light brown instead.
  
• Ask at your local bakery for the poppy and sesame seeds, they have them in large volume, and can give them to you for alot less than a grocery store. If you're a good customer, you may even get them for free!
  
• If keeping for a long time, refrigerate in a sealed container. There are no preservatives in this recipe.
  
• You can put the warm mix into a tupperware-type container and press into a solid chunk which can be cut into chunks after it's cold, or put into ice cube trays and made into individual blocks for the kids to take to school.
  
• You can toast it in the oven until everything is slightly brown and crunchy.
  

Things You'll Need

• Very large mixing bowl
  
• Wooden spoon
  
• Small saucepan
  
• Baking sheet if you are going to toast it
  

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