Want to decrease the sugar content of your breakfast cereals? Try this homemade granola

Ever wondered what the 24 g sugar/portion size on some of the breakfast cereal or several brands of granola mean,…???

I don’t know why but until very recently I did not realize that this is actually 6 teaspoons of sugar,….yes!!!!!! 6 teaspoons of sugar,...

That’s why I decided to make my own granola thanks to the recipe my good friend Peggy De Coeyer shared with me.

I tried many different versions but this is the recipe of the one I make most often.

 Ingredients:

-300 g oats

-2 tablespoons coconut oil

-4 tablespoons maple syrup

-handful of almonds, cut in pieces

-handful of hazelnuts, cut in pieces

-handful of walnuts, cut in pieces

-3 tablespoons chiaseeds

-3 tablespoons flaxseeds

-1 teaspoon cinnamon

-1/2 teaspoon cardamon

-handful banana-chips

Directions

1.    Heat the oven to 150 C and mix all the ingredients, except banana chips.

2.    Put the granola onto 1 or 2 baking sheets and spread evenly. Bake for 20 minutes, stir and bake for another 20 minutes (until light brown. Remove and let cool.

4.    Serve with almond milk (or other type of milk), fresh fruit, apple sauce, yoghurt, etc.

Tip

-Store in an airtight container for up to a month.
-For a sweeter version of this recipe add some natural sugars from dried berries, dried raisons, dates, etc. Add to granola after you take it out of the oven
-Fun part about this recipe is, you can use as little or as much ingredients as you want and add plenty of other ones as well (coconut flakes, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, honey, pumpkin seeds, cranberries, raisins, dates,…)