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Nutty Protein-Packed Homemade Granola! So Easy!

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    How many of you bake during the winter months just to make the house warmer? Here in London, it’s more of a necessity than a quirky activity. They didn’t get the memo on windows here so there’s like a good centimeter of separation between windows and frames. Cold air blows in all the time and you’re like, man alive turn on the oven or something. 
    But cookies? Those jerks only take 10 minutes or less in the oven. PASS! Cakes? Who am I making cakes for? Muffins are just bread with sugar and I’d rather eat my bread without sugar (and with hummus). Kale chips? Am I the only vegan who prefers kale raw (or any other way) to chippified? What can I make that’s feasible and that takes a long time so I have maximum oven usage? GRANOLA!

      Yes, granola is the easiest, best way to run your oven for at least an hour. Also, you actually want to eat the final product. And it’s healthy! This version I made uses nut butters as its main wet ingredient, and it works great as a binder. Add chia seeds, hemp seeds, and protein powder, you’ve got a power-giving snack that’s perfect for any time of day. I liked using unflavored rice protein in this recipe, mostly because it is too pasty to use in my smoothies. Also, I used puffed millet as my cereal. It’s great because the puffs are teeny tiny, almost like puffed quinoa. So just make sure you choose a cereal that’s on the small side. You don’t want huge puffed buckwheat or something that’s going to be significantly bigger than an oat. 
     Ingredients on the small side plus a superb wet ingredient mix based in nut butter will ensure that you get lots of big crunchy clusters instead of sad granola-flavored crumbs. As with all granola recipes, this is really more of a guide that you can play around with to suit to your preferences. Add chocolate chips! Or cocoa powder! Or use chocolate-hazelnut spread! Or add something non-chocolate. But that seems like a move in the wrong direction. 
POWER PUNCH GRANOLA

      I love mixing different nut butters with date syrup for the main binder. Date syrup adds a dark, deep flavor that you don’t get when you use regular liquid sweeteners alone. Try half the amount of molasses if you don’t have date syrup. 

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 generous cup peanut butter
  • 1/3 cup almond butter
  • 2 tablespoons date syrup (or other dark syrup)
  • 1/4 cup agave syrup (or maple syrup, but what are you made of money?)
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla paste 
  • 2 tablespoons unflavored rice/pea/hemp protein powder (or protein powder of choice)
  • 2 tablespoons ground flax seed
  • 16g chia seeds (you know I don’t know grams, but I used two ‘Chia Shots’ which are 8g each. Just use 2 tablespoons or something)
  • 1/4 cup dried fruit of choice
  • 1/2 cup hemp seeds
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
  • 1 + 1/2 cups rolled oats
  • 1 + 1/2 cups puffed cereal 

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 140 degrees Celsius which I have to use now. It’s just under 300 Fahrenheit. 
  2. In a large bowl, mix the wet ingredients together. If, like me, you store your nut butters in the fridge, you might need a generous splash of water to help blend that well. If your nut butters are runny, you’ll prob be okay. 
  3. Add the dry ingredients one by one, and mix everything with all your might. Save the oats and cereal for last. That’s why I wrote them last! 
  4. Drop onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and distribute evenly. It shouldn’t be one cohesive square like you’re making bars or anything, but keep big pieces together so you’ll have clusters.
  5. Bake for an hour! Check on it every so often to make sure it’s not burning. If it is, your oven is probably too hot. You might see in other recipes that you should toss your granola halfway through, but letting it lie untouched is the best way to get big clusters. 
  6. After an hour, turn off the oven and let it sit in there for another hour. This way, every time you check on it and steal bits, you get a wave of heat. 
  7. Cool completely and store in an airtight container. People love showing their granola stored in fancy oversized mason jars that have those swingy clips. If you’d like to see mine in such a container, please buy me one. 
  8. Wheee!!! 
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Nut butter plus syrups. So pretty
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It’s like an add for superfoods!
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It’s a veritable thing-with-a-lot-of-clusters-that-I’ve-decided-against-saying-because-I’m-a-lady!
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