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Kleynhuis Grain-free Granola

Don't eat your homemade yogurt without it!

Ingredients

  • 3 cups nuts I like using cashews, almonds, and pecans
  • 1 cup sunflower seeds raw, if possible
  • 1 cup [OPTIONAL] chopped, dried cherries
  • 1/4 cup ground flax seed
  • 1 cup shredded coconut
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 4 T maple syrup
  • 2 T honey
  • 1 T vanilla extract

Instructions

  • Line a jelly roll pan with parchment paper or aluminum foil and spray with non-stick spray.
  • Heat oven to 350 °F.
  • In a small sauce pan over low heat, combine peanut butter, maple syrup, honey, and vanilla. (I like the combination of maple syrup and honey, but if you don’t have both on hand, that’s fine, just use 1/3 cup of one or the other.) Heat and stir until the ingredients are melted together and smooth.
  • In a large bowl, mix together the nuts, sunflower seeds, chopped dried cherries, ground flax seed. Pour warm peanut butter mixture over the top and mix until well combined. Add the shredded coconut and mix until the mixture is evenly coated. Spread mixture into prepared pan.⠀
  • Bake for 15 minutes at 350 °F.
  • Stir mixture around with a wooden spoon. Turn oven down to 200 °F. and return pan to oven and bake for 40 more minutes or until golden brown.
  • Take granola out of the oven and allow to completely cool. This takes about 2 hours. 
  • Store granola in an air-tight container in the fridge for about two weeks. (If it lasts that long!) It freezes great as well.