Granola
Cookbook
Page 26
Course: Breakfast/Brunch
Photo by andrew
Ingredients:
- 4 cups rolled oats (14 oz)
- 1 1/2 cups walnut halves (6 oz)
- 1 cup unsweetened shredded large-flake coconut (2 oz)
- 1/2 tsp fine grained sea salt
- 2/3 cup dried currants (3 oz)
- 2 oranges, zest from
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter (3 oz)
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
Notes: Makes two sheets worth. Oven at 300F. combine dry ingredients (except currants) in large mixing bowl, melt butter and maple syrup in small pot on stove, then stir into oat mixture. Divide between two baking sheets. Bake for 35-45 minutes until a medium-brown. Stir in currants either in last 5-10 minutes or right at the end.
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The ONLY change I made to the recipe, which I love, is I used a mix of larger fruits, dried cranberries and blueberries, and this did allow the fruit to hold up better. The coconut is such a perfect addition.
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A very tasty, simple granola variation. It's fairly straightforward - toasted oats with some nuts and a sweetener. She brings it up a notch with a couple of things - unsweetened coconut and currants - and sweetens it with maple syrup. Orange zest is the final tweak.
Be careful with the cooking time though - I let this one go until it was as brown as I thought it should be, then it cooked a little more on the tray when I took it out, and it turned out I'd overdone it - the currants were fossilize... Read more
Be careful with the cooking time though - I let this one go until it was as brown as I thought it should be, then it cooked a little more on the tray when I took it out, and it turned out I'd overdone it - the currants were fossilize... Read more
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Just an aside to the previous reviewer and any other granola makers, I make it a habit to always leave out dried fruit in a granola recipe and mix it in after the rest has baked. Otherwise you will end up with little rocks :)
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andrew
· 15 years ago
This is useful advice! Last time I made this I put the currants in with about 10 minutes to go, just to cook it a little with the butter and maple syrup - and that was about right.