I like to make my homemade granola. It’s healthier, contains more fibre and very little sugar.
I recently met wth Naomi the Nutritionist and with a few tweaks I now have an even healthier breakfast!
Ingredients
- 4 cups rolled oats
- 1 1/2 cups walnuts
- 1 1/2 cups pecans
- 1 1/2 cups pumpkin seeds
- 1 cup maple syrup
- 1/2 cup sunflower oil
- 2 tbsp vanilla
- 2 tbsp cinnamon
- 1/4 cup water
Mix all the dry ingredients, mix all the wet ingredients and then combine the two. Stir well making sure all the ingredients are well coated.
Heat oven to 275 degrees
Place parchment paper on two cookie sheets and evenly spread the granola over both sheets. Bake for 90 minutes – stirring the granola every 30 minutes until it’s dry.
How to Make Your Healthy Granola Even Healthier
When I described my breakfast to Naomi she had some really great suggestions on how to make my breakfast even healthier. ‘How is that possible?’ I thought. I add organic raspberries; I use oat milk (no sugar added) and occasionally I will throw in a handful of blueberries!
Here are Naomi The Nutritionists Suggestions:
- Use Soy milk – it has more protein that oat milk so I will stay fuller longer
- Also add yogurt – again more protein stabilize my blood sugar ( use coconut yogurt with no sugar added)
These two tweaks are going to rock my morning breakfast! And I like the creamy taste of the yogurt!
Enjoy!
