A super easy basic homemade granola recipe- perfect for a healthy breakfast, snack or parfait! You'll love that it uses only simple pantry ingredients and takes just minutes to mix together.
Prep Time7 minutesmins
Cook Time1 hourhr30 minutesmins
Total Time1 hourhr37 minutesmins
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Servings: 24cups
Author: Lydia @ ThriftyFrugalMom.com
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Ingredients
8cupsquick oats
8cupsrolled oats(see Notes below)
1 ½ to 3cupsbrown sugar(see Notes below)
2cupswheat germoptional
2cupscoconut flakes
1cupsunflower seeds or nutsoptional
2tsp.salt
2tsp.cinnamon
2cupscanola, vegetable or coconut oilor melted butter
Mix everything but oil and vanilla in large bowl. (I like to mix it in my roasting pan and then just bake it in that).
Add vanilla to oil, then add to dry ingredients. Mix well.
Pour into oven safe dishes (if you don’t have a large roasting pan, cake pans work well) and bake at 250 degrees until lightly browned, stirring occasionally.
Notes
OATMEAL: I like the texture that using both quick and rolled oats gives this granola. But you can use whatever kind you prefer, as long as the total amount of oatmeal equals 16 cups. CHUNKIER GRANOLA: If you prefer chunkier granola, you can use ⅔ c. honey and 2 c. brown sugar instead of the 3 c. brown sugar that the recipe calls for. When I do this, I like to mix the honey in with some of the oil before adding it to the other ingredients. Doing this seems to help make it easier to combine nicely with the dry ingredients.FREEZING: This makes a large amount of granola. Feel free to freeze some of it if you prefer!