Maple and Almond Granola. Maple almond granola clusters are hearty, healthy, and wholesome. Delicious with milk, sprinkled on yogurt, or plain as a snack! Hearty, healthy, and wholesome maple almond granola clusters!

Serve leftovers with yogurt or milk for breakfast the next morning. The chickpea and I are so very in love with this granola. When we're not enjoying it by the handful as a mid-day snack, we're pouring it over our tasty morning breakfast bowls. You can cook Maple and Almond Granola using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Maple and Almond Granola

You need of vegetable or coconut oil.
You need of maple syrup or honey, or a mixture of both.
You need of salt.
It's of vanilla extract.
Prepare of rolled oats or a mixture of oats and oatmeal.
Prepare of mixed nuts and seeds of your choice, roughly chopped if necessary (I used flaked almonds, cashew pieces and sunflower seeds).
It's of demerara sugar (optional).
You need of coconut shavings (I didn't have any so I added 50g more seeds).
It's of mixed chopped dried fruit of your choice (optional).

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Maple and Almond Granola step by step

Pour the oil, syrup or honey, salt and vanilla in a small pan and heat gently. Preheat the oven to 160C/Gas 3..
Measure out the oats, nuts and seeds in a large bowl..
Pour the oil and syrup mixture into the bowl and mix with the dry ingredients until they are thoroughly coated. Taste, and add the sugar if you wish, it adds another level of crunch, but leave it out if you don't want the granola to be too sweet. Spread the mixture out on a large baking tray lined with baking parchment. Use two trays if necessary..
Bake in the oven for about 12 minutes, then turn the paper over on all four sides to pile the granola in the middle, then spread out evenly again. This will help it crisp up evenly. Bake for another 10 minutes, but keep an eye on it. Turn over again one or two times if necessary..
When crisp and golden all over remove from the oven. The granola won't be crisp while hot, so test on a cooled piece. Mix in the dried fruit while warm if using..
Leave on the tray to cool completely before pouring into a jar. Serve with ice cold milk or fruit juice or yogurt and fresh fruit, or just eat from the jar!.

If you crave crunch and and decent nutritional profile, they don't exactly fit the bill. Fortunately, it's super easy to make your own granola. This almond maple granola is packed with heart-heathy oats and almonds, dried cranberries and apricots and it's one of the best things to eat for breakfast, scooped over yogurt or in a bowl with I like to almost burn the granola. It brings out the best in the oats and the nuts and gives it a great crunch. For this almond granola I used whole almonds.