Granola: Spicy and nutty

This was my first homemade granola recipe courtesy of the wonderful Virginia Compton and I love it. This tastes great with coconut milk but even better with coconut yogurt – but beware mix this with coconut yogurt and you won’t want to eat again for a while!

Ingredients

500g jumbo oats
200g skin on almonds
100g sesame seeds
250g dried apricots
4 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp ginger
100ml sesame oil
120ml runny honey

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180c
  2. Add the dry ingredients to a bowl with the cinnamon and ginger and mix together.
  3. Add the sesame oil and mix until all of the dry ingredients are lightly covered in oil.
  4. Add the honey and mix through.
  5. Spread the mixture on a baking try and bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown.
  6. Chop the dried apricots into quarters.
  7. Meanwhile chop the dried apricots into quarters.
  8. Remove from the oven and mix up, replace back in the oven for a further five minutes or until the whole mix is golden brown.
  9. Remove from the oven and cool.
  10. Mix in the apricots
  11. Decant into an airtight storage container where it will keep for around three months.

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