The only healthy granola recipe you’ll ever need

Of course there are amazing and delicious granolas that don’t follow this basic recipe and feature ingredients as pumpkin puree or tahini, mashed banana or cacao, or are gluten-free or raw – for instance, in my cookbook I have a carrot granola with grated carrots, a lentil granola with no grains, and a raw buckwheat one with seeds and dried apricots – but I often need to go to the food store and buy at least a couple of ingredients for that specific recipe. Does it happen to me only?

Another something that happens to me sooo often is that my pantry ends up with a little amount of this, a little amount of that, not enough cashews for a vegan cheesecake, a little handful of brazilian nuts, a couple of tablespoon of dried cherries, or I even buy a ton of raisins thinking about working on a raisin sourdough and then I just change idea and I leave that big jar in the pantry for weeks. So I decided to finally find a decluttering-the-pantry recipe, something like these cookies – that surely are delicious and perfect for this purpose, but I’m not a cookie person. And I ended up with this granola that you can customize depending on what you need to use. You just need to follow a simple scheme!

The ratio is 8 parts dry to 1 part liquid. What does it mean? 8 parts of a mixture of grains, nuts, and seeds, and 1 part of oils and liquid sweeteners. My basic recipe is :

• 6 parts of rolled grains (but you can also use some puffed too, gluten-free if needed)
• 2 parts of nuts and/or seeds (seeds if allergic to nuts)
• 1/2 part of oil
• 1/2 part of liquid sweetener

To this mix, I also add at the end 1 part of dried fruit (or chocolate chips, ahem) but you can go up to 2 parts in my opinion. If you want it more crunchy and even more delicious, but a little less healthy, double the liquid part reaching a ratio of 8:2 – 8 parts of dry, 1 part of oil, and 1 part of sweetener.

THE RECIPE

Read the intro for the pin-on-your fridge rule!
If your coconut oil is solid and your honey a bit crystalized, just warm them together before adding them to the mixture.