Healthy Homemade Vegan And Gluten-Free Maple Granola Recipe

by | Mar 13, 2022

I Love Granola With Those Yummy Clusters

You choose all the delicious ingredients. I’ll make some suggestions and you decide what is best for you and your family. I hope you love the idea that this granola is naturally sweetened with maple syrup, but feel free to use a flavoring of your choice. This is a quick and easy recipe that takes about 10 minutes of preparation before you pop it in the oven.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups Organic Rolled  Oats

  • 1 1/2/ cups Raw Nuts (almond, cashew, pecan, pistachio, hazelnut, macadamia)

  • 1 cup Seeds of your choice You may also want to add 1/4 to 1/2 cup of additional seeds of your choice (pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, chia seeds, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, flax seeds)

  • Optional: 1 cup coconut flakes and 1 cup dried fruit (cranberry, pear, apricot, pineapple, cherry, apple, raisin)

  • 1/3 cup Maple Syrup

  • 1/3 cup Coconut Oil or Olive Oil

  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla

  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt 

  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

  • 1/2 teaspoon cardamon or nutmeg

  • 1 tablespoon orange zest (optional)

Let’s Make Granola:

  1. Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl.

  2. Pour in the wet ingredients and stir to combine.

  3. Spread out on a parchment-lined sheet pan or two.

  4. Bake 20 to 25 minutes at 325 F, stirring halfway through, patting down and rotating the pan. (This patting down process with a spatula halfway through baking allows those wonderful clusters to form.)

  5. Let cool before storing.

  6. Store in an airtight container or jar. It will last up to 6 weeks.

How Are You Planning On Serving Your Granola?

You may enjoy your granola with fresh berries and yogurt.

Perhaps pour almond milk over the top.

Eat it like trailmix or a snack.

Get creative and have fun!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Sharon

 

Vegan, Gluten Free Banana Bread Recipe

by | Apr 15, 2015

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Here we have a vegan banana bread recipe that is also gluten free. Isn’t it amazing that 20 years ago we didn’t even know anything about gluten . . . maybe you did, but I didn’t. Every recipe is a new adventure. And on that note, you can add nuts and maybe even chocolate chips — as long as they’re vegan.

 INGREDIENTS

  • 1 cup gluten-free oat flour
  • 1 cup gluten-free all purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup olive or coconut oil
  • 3 very large and very ripe bananas
  • optional: 1/2 cup vegan chocolate chips, plus an extra handful for the top
  • optional: 1/2 cup walnuts or almonds

 INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Preheat oven to 375° F.
  2. Get out a large mixing bowl and sift the gluten-free oat flour and gluten-free all purpose flour together.
  3. Add baking soda, baking powder and salt to the mixing bowl and whisk it all together.
  4. Get out a medium mixing bowl, this is for the very large and very ripe bananas. You’re going to peel them and mash them up with either a fork or your hands.
  5. Add the mashed bananas, oil, optional chocolate chips and/or optional nuts  to the dry ingredients. You’re going to mix this all together gently — don’t overdo it.
  6. Spoon the mixture into a lightly oiled 5 x 9 inch loaf pan. Add the handful of optional chocolate chips on the top.
  7. Bake for 20 to 30 minutes. You want the top to be lightly browned. Test with a toothpick — you want it to come out clean, not gooey with batter.
  8. Allow to cool thoroughly before removing it from the pan.
  9. Wait about an hour before slicing it — you don’t want it to crumble on you.
  10. Enjoy!

Oatmeal Breakfast Bars Recipe

by | Dec 26, 2014

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These delicious oatmeal breakfast bars are gluten free with cherries and almonds, but you can add other fruit of your choice to make these extra special for your family. That’s what is so wonderful about this recipe, this is only the beginning, not necessarily the end result.

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 cup dried cherries or dried fruit of your choice
  • 1/4 cup sliced almonds
  • 1 & 1/2 cups oats
  • 3 tablespoons honey
  • 1/4 cup peanut butter or nut butter of your choice
  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg white
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 scoops whey vanilla protein powder

Directions:

  1. Heat oven to 350
  2. Mix vanilla, peanut butter, honey and egg.
  3. Mix oats, almonds and cherries.
  4. Mix together the wet and dry ingredients.
  5. Press mixture into a foil lined pan.
  6. Bake 15 minute until golden.
  7. Cool before cutting into bars.

Now you have an easy nutritional breakfast or anytime treat for your family. This recipe makes approximately 16 servings.