I recently told you about my love of breakfast. While during the week I quickly gobble up a bowl of industrial cereals (not fantastic, let’s be honest), I love to shake up my routine and treat myself to a little kiff at the weekend. So, after porridge, I wanted to try out another breakfast recipe that’s popping up all over the blogosphere: homemade granola.
Strangely enough, I had this idea that it was going to be complicated, but in fact it wasn’t at all (yes, I can sometimes spend 4 hours on a cake, but I freak out at the idea of preparing a cereal mix, don’t look now…). In the end, the most time-consuming part is deciding what to put in it!
Granola, then, is a mixture of oven-baked oat flakes topped with whatever you fancy: walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, dried fruit, chocolate, fresh fruit… Everyone has their own recipe and can add whatever they like, which is a concept I love. Depending on your mood and what’s left in the fridge/ cupboard, you can twist the base to your liking. As you can see from the photo, I added hazelnuts and almonds to mine.
I started with a basic recipe from Clotilde of the lovely blog Chocolate and Zucchini (who did manage to get me to read a recipe with “gluten-free” in the title, which was no easy feat).
There’s nothing complicated or tricky about it: just mix all the ingredients together and bake in the oven for around 30 minutes.
Clotilde uses fleur de sel in her recipe and I did too, but as I’m not a fan of sweet and sour, I’ll do without it next time. Otherwise, the recipe is perfect. I added dark chocolate once and fresh banana another time, so I’ll try red fruit next time.
Table des matières
Granola maison
Ingredients
- 280 g de flocons d'avoine
- 170 g de fruits à coques concassés (noisettes et amandes pour moi)
- 2 cuillères à soupe d'huile
- 6 cuillères à soupe de miel , sirop d'érable, sirop d'agave ou tout autre liquide sucrant (sirop d'agave pour ma part)
- 1 cuillère à café d'épices moulues (mélange pain d'épices pour moi)
- 1 cuillère à café de fleur de sel
- 1 cuillère à café d'extrait de vanille
Instructions
- Mélanger tous les ingrédients.
- Les étaler de manière régulière sur une plaque de four.
- Mettre à cuire à 150°C en remuant régulièrement.
- Le mélange est prêt lorsqu'il est bien doré, il deviendra croustillant en refroidissant.
- Ajouter les fruits secs, chocolat ou tout autre ingrédient ne passant pas au four.
