WHOA, sorry about the yogurt!! I haven't had Nancy's soy, but I love the regular yogurt, and it IS a lot more tangy than your regular yogurt. It's the live acidophilus culture, which is soooooo good for you.
But back to granola.
Use a huge roasting pan or buy a foil roasting pan at the store. Spray the pan with canola non-stick spray and dump in a box of regular oats (not quick oats and not cooked). If you buy your oats bulk, get the roasting pan about half full. If you like apples or pears, cut one or two into thin bite-sized pieces and scatter them over the oats. (You're going to cook them, so they will be ok for IBS if you peel them.)
Now I really LOVE coconut, so I add a bag of shredded coconut. You can skip this if you want.
Drizzle the oats lightly all over with sunflower or safflower or canola oil. Then drizzle them all over with honey (preferably a local raw honey). Now sprinkle on (if you want) some cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. (Optional: sprinkle with flaxseed meal.) Stir a little and put this in the oven at 300 for about a half hour, then take it out and stir it with a big wooden spoon or spatula or ladle.
At this point you can tell if you need more honey or oil -- the oats need to be coated with it, but just barely. Turn the oats over well so the unbaked is on the top and put it back in the oven. Turn it down to 225 and leave it in there a half hour or an hour. It should smell Pretty Fine in your house by now.
Keep turning and baking it till it is golden brown, not dark brown and crunchy, just golden brown.
Take it out and stir some more and let it cool. When it's mostly cool, add nuts (I like almonds and hazelnuts) and dried fruit (I like cranberries and papaya and apricots and pineapple and dates and currants). You can add seeds (sunflower, punkin) and other cereal stuff (corn flakes, mueslix, whatever you like) if you want to.
Keep in an airtight container in a cool dark cupboard. This is REALLY good microwaved with milk on it.
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