Any good granola recipes please???

[MilaMae]

Sooo Dorset Cereals are on our off list as is a luxury(apparantly) so have been making my own. Have tried the Apples for Jam one and the Jamie Oliver one(both yummy) but need some more to keep boredom at bay.

TIA

Just make your own.
Go to a health food shop and buy bags of oats, wheatgerm, bran, various nuts, dried fruit and linseed and mix up.Costs a fraction of what brands do. Go easy though as easy to go mad and it can then be pretty calorific. I weigh all my breakfast food now.

Have you tried the Nigella one in Feast? It's very nice. Am dashing off but will post it later if you like.

Oh yes please

Right.
450g rolled oats
120g sunflower seeds
120g sesame seeds
175g apple sauce/compote
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
120g brown rice syrup/rice makt syrup/golden syrup
4 tbs honey
100g light brown sugar
250g almonds
1 tsp sea salt
2 tbs sunflower oil
300g raisins

Mix everything except raisins together and spreda on two large baking tins. Bake at gas 3/170C turning halfway through cooking to get it evenly toasted. Bake approx 40 mins-1 hour. Allow to cool then mix in the raisins.

She also adds that she sometimes substitutes 300g peanuts for the almonds and adds 25g good-quality cocoa powder to the dry ingredients before adding the syrup etc and leaves out the raisins to make a choc peanut version. Also that dried cherries might be a nice addition to the choc version.

Oooh, yy to Nigella's. Love it. I use maple syrup for the syrupy portion. Made a Christmas version last year with dried cranberries, some cinnamon and nutmeg, and a dusting of gold lustre powder

'Tis dangerous stuff though - extremely easy to eat out of the jar like popcorn until....Oops! All gone!

yes. Not exactly low cal either - but delicious.

Gold lustre powder - get you

I know!

yy to Nigella's

my favourite is:

good knob of butter
2 tbspn golden syrup
1 tbspn honey
1 tbspn demerara sugar

melt in low oven in baking tray lined with greaseproof, swirl together to mix

in separate bowl mix mainly oats then add your choice of nuts ( I like macadamia, pecan, almonds and chopped roasted hazelnuts ) and extras ( I like sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, coconut, orange zest, vanilla extract )

Thoroughly mix with melted sugary goo so all coated and cook, turning every 10 mins in low to med oven for 30 mins until toasted. When cool, add whatever else takes your fancy ( I like golden sultanas and those fudgey organic dried apricots chopped up ).

Thanks for those,will keep me going for a while,both look like ones I could play with if boredom strikes,quite fancy the choc/cherry version of Nigella's.

Can now stop my wistful prowling past the Dorset Cereal shelves.

Many thanks

Good-for-you!