We’ve been on a bit of a granola kick lately and I just can’t seem to make enough of it. Not only is granola insanely fast and easy to make, it’s filling too and I like that I can adapt the recipe to whatever dried fruit or nuts I have in the pantry.
Lately, I’ve been making this {adapted version} of apple and cinnamon granola recipe I got from my friend Zoë {she’s the on who makes those cool rope baskets and amazing quilts} and well, we’ve been pretty much eating it for breakfast every day for the past month.
We like it so much, I thought I’d share the recipe.
Granola! If you don’t already make your own, you should give this recipe a try. You might just become addicted to it too. 😉
Have a good one,
~Mavis
Looking for more granola recipes? Here’s a few different ones that I’ve made over the years:
- Nut Free Cinnamon Raisin Granola
- Peanut Butter Banana Granola
- Simple Granola
- Almond Joy Granola
- Grain Free Granola
- Honey and Almond Granola
- Strawberry Almond Granola
Apple Cinnamon Granola
Ingredients
4 cups old fashioned rolled oats
1 cup unsalted almonds, roughly chopped
1/2 cup sweetened coconut
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/3 cup honey
1/4 cup canola oil
2 tablespoons orange juice
6 oz {4 cups} dried apples, chopped
Instructions
In a large bowl mix the old fashioned oats, almonds, cinnamon and sea salt.
In a separate bowl, whisk the honey, canola oil, and orange juice together. Combine the dry ingredients with the wet and spread on a large, lined cookie sheet with edges.
Bake the granola at 300 degrees for about 45 minutes, making sure to stir the granola every 15 minutes to prevent burning.
Cool completely and then stir in the chopped dried apples.
Store in an airtight container or zip baggie.
This recipe makes about 2 1/2 quarts of granola.
Linda says
Mavis, Just curious. Do you dry/dehydrate fruit?
Mavis Butterfield says
Yes, all the time. It’s the best way ever to deal with extra produce. 🙂 https://www.onehundreddollarsamonth.com/recipe-list-archive/?_recipes_search=how%20to%20dehydrate
Cindy Miller says
Looks good to me! Granola is good anytime even for snacks.. I was going to ask about dehydrating but I see Linda already did. 😀
Morna D says
We make our granola with 2 cup. wheat germ or bran, 3/4 cup chopped nuts and or coconut, 1 cup sugar of 1/4 cup honey, 6 cups rolled oats, 2 cups dried fruit. We also add 1/4 cup of chocolate chips–not very nutritious but adds some fun. We wait to add the fruit and chocolate until after the granola has baked and cooled.
Jenny says
Sounds good! I haven’t been much of a granola or cold cereal person since the seventies! I clicked back to look at all of the other granola recipes, and now I guess iL make the Almond Joy kind, too!
Rosaleen says
We haven’t been eating granola since needing to keep our carbs low.
For those of you who can eat the yummy concoction, consider preparing granola in your crockpot. It will need some stirring, of course, but I hear this works very well. I’m wondering now if one could “bake” granola in a variable temperature dehydrator?
andrea d says
I have made a lower carb granola in the dehydrator – it omits the oats and uses various nuts, slightly chopped in the food processor: almonds, pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, unsweetened coconut.
Gina says
I love homemade granola too. Once you make it, you never go back to buying it! No comparison. I usually make it with cinnamon and vanilla, using whatever nuts I have on hand or no nuts at all. I love to eat a bowl as cold cereal with sliced banana and dried blueberries or sprinkled on applesauce! Mmmmm. I make chocolate granola and that has replaced my old favorite Cocoa Krispies lol. It even makes the milk chocolatey! I have made granola in the oven, in the crockpot and even in the skillet during hot summer weather. Once I contributed my granola in jars to a church bake sale and it sold out right away. I can’t wait to try a few of your versions since everything you post here turns our delicious. Thank you for so many wonderful posts!
Pat says
Thank you, Mavis for the prompt of what we love most and why. It was so perfect for your wonderful give away and I loved reading all the entries! Everyone just warmed my heart and I felt surrounded with all that love and contentment!! Like a wonderful fresh breeze from all of you lovely ladies! Thank you!
andrea d says
Yum! Now I want to make granola. Why does reading your blog always make me hungry?!
Nicole Jolley says
‘Just making a plug for the ‘Strawberry Almond Granola’ you shared here some time ago, Mavis. I make it regularly, most of the time without fruit but sometimes add raisins to my personal bowl. Wonderful on yogurt, dry or with milk. The Cross Country teammates ask my child to share a handful after school. We’ve given it as gifts and passed the recipe around to friends and family. We call it Granola Goodness. Thank you for enhancing our family recipe collection over the years.
Wendy Steele says
Good Morning Mavis, I know this is off-topic for today —but I hope you can help. I’d like to buy a couple Sue Tirrell mugs, but I can’t figure out how. I even had my super smart internet savvy daughter look into it, and the best she came up with was to subscribe to Sue’s newsletter. She did add ‘these are no ordinary mugs, Mom!!’ Lolol tell me about it!!!!
Mavis Butterfield says
Your daughter is right. Sign up for Sue’s newsletter {which she only sends out a handful of times a year} and then you’ll know when the online sales are. When her stuff does go live, it almost always get snatched up and sells out within 1 minute of the listing. She’s that popular!
You have to be crazy fast and it’s kind of insane, but there really isn’t a better way for her to sell her items because she is in such high demand and everything is handmade.
Wendy Steele says
Thank you so much Mavis–I appreciate it!!