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Seeded Pecan Granola
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- Total Time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
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Ingredients
- 1½cups/160 grams raw pecans, broken into rough halves and quarters
- ½cup plus 2 tablespoons/145 milliliters maple syrup
- 3⅔cups/340 grams old-fashioned rolled oats
- ¾cup/100 grams raw pepitas (pumpkin seeds)
- ¾cup/100 grams raw sunflower seeds
- ¼cup/55 grams sugar
- 1teaspoon flaky sea salt
- ¼teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ⅛teaspoon grated nutmeg
- ⅛teaspoon ground ginger
- ½cup/120 milliliters unrefined coconut oil, melted (or use sunflower oil, or a combination)
Preparation
- Step 1
Heat oven to 375 degrees (or 350 degrees if you are using convection). Line rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Step 2
In a small mixing bowl, toss pecans with ¼ cup maple syrup. Set aside.
- Step 3
In a separate medium-size bowl, combine oats, pepitas, sunflower seeds, sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and oil with the remaining ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons maple syrup. Spread oat mixture on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 7 to 10 minutes or until the edges are just starting to turn golden. Remove pan from oven and use a fork to gently rake the edges in toward the center and the center out toward the edges. Return to oven and bake for 7 to 10 more minutes or until edges are golden, then repeat raking process.
- Step 4
Sprinkle the maple-coated pecans over the top of the granola and bake for a final 7 to 10 minutes, or until the granola is evenly golden. Remove pan from oven, rake once more, and let cool completely. Store airtight at room temperature for up to 2 weeks.
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Cooking Notes
The recipe is sugar-loaded, roughly 1/4 cup to each cup of oats! I use 1/4 cup of honey to 10.5 cups (the whole box, 1.2kg) of rolled oats, and it's more than sweet enough. I add .5 cups water to the honey, pour it over the oats-seeds-spice mix, and bake at 245 for 4 hours, tossing once during the process. When done, I add equal measures of dates and walnuts, after chopping them in a cuisinart (walnuts prevent dates from turning into a glue ball)
I decided to cut back the sweetener by about half and it still remained plenty sweet. I don't even think the cane sugar is necessary at all. Also, it was a little too salty in my opinion, so I might suggest cutting the salt in half as well.
I add an egg white to the mix which makes the granola extra crunchy and shiny.
Reduced coconut oil to 1/4 cup. Did not add sugar. Added 10 minutes to total cooking time.
This can be made without any processed sugar or oil. I put the oats into a bowl and pour in some good quality apple juice and mix the into clumps - then bake in the oven until toasted. Then add the pre toasted nuts and seeds and some dried fruit. It is a much healthier option and still has that lovely crunch as opposed to a muesli.
Per other comments, I reduced the amount of sweetener: ¼ cup + 2 Tbsps maple syrup, 2 Tbsps sugar. I also reduced the salt to 1 tsp. Very tasty!
This is awesome. If you are making this to impress someone and you don't care about calories, I would make it exactly as the directions specify. If you are making this because you want something healthy, then I'd probably reduce the sugar and fat content as some suggest.
On the recommendation from my friend, I doubled the cinnamon, doubled the pumpkin seeds, added chia seeds (i free-handed about 1 tbsp), added flax seeds (also free-handed 1 tbsp), and decreased the sugar by 1/4 (tho my friend told me to decrease by 1/2 but I didn’t want to). I left it in the oven a little extra to get a little more toasted. Came out delicious—I love the saltiness and it’s not overly sweet. Also I love the addition of the extra cinnamon and seeds. Autumnal AF!
What is the amount of coconut oil to be used? The amount listed isn't clear. Thank you!
Start with the wet ingredients for the Coconut Pecan Cluster recipe and combine it with the dry ingredients from this recipe. Don’t add Brown Sugar and add pecans and Coconut after it is almost fully browned. Coconut at the very end or it will brown too much.
Add dried cherries and perhaps quartered dried apricots, golden raisins
118 ml=1/2 cup
120 ml converts to 1/2 cup
Great recipe!
Didn’t have pepitas so subbed in almonds. Used olive oil. Delish! I didn’t find it too sweet.
The reason I make rather than buy Granola is to eliminate the sugar and salt. So that is what I did with this recipe. I also cut maple syrup in half. It came out pretty well, but next time I will cook at 350 - it was a little overcooked for my taste.
great recipe
Most granola is over sweetened; I make a granola that is good for us with 16 c rolled oats, 6 c pecans or walnuts, 12 c coconut chips, 1 heaping T Diamond salt, 1 c avo oil, cinnamon, hemp seeds, oand a cup of honey or maple syrup. Add water to make it cohesive, and roast at 275, turning and stirring every 30 min until dark golden brown and crunchy. It will get crunchier as it cools, and you will have plenty for a few weeks!
I have never liked cereal, not even granola but I had all the ingredients and I figured I would give it a try. I just finished making my third batch. I followed recipe as directed and based upon all the comments I might reduce sugar/oil when I make it again. Delicious.
This is the ideal granola recipe.
My granola 2 cups old fashioned oars 1/2 cup each of slivered almond,chopped pecans and chopped walnuts and 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut and 1/4 cup neutral oil and 1/4 cup maple syrup .bake at 300 degrees for at 60 minutes, stirring at 30:minutes
This is a delicious recipe. I use only 2 tbsp Turbinado sugar, but all of the called for real maple syrup. Also use less salt, generous 1/2 tsp of Kosher salt. Really good, fresh pecans make it happen! If I'm feeling particularly decadent, I eat the granola with whole milk and fresh strawberries. Ahhhh....
This recipe is quite boring and flat compared to the Eleven Madison Park granola. Lacks acidity. After 30 minutes baking time, oats are undercooked and seeds are too browned. Better to cook at 300 for 40 minutes. Will not use this recipe again.
I've now made this 6-8 times. Always turns out great BUT I notice it takes longer than 10 minutes - more like 14 minutes - on each cycle to get it golden at the edges.
So good in every way! People are complaining that it's too sweet and it might be if you eat it by the bowl full but it's perfect as a topping for yogurt or ice cream. I love it and have given it to several friends and they love it too!
I agree to cut the salt in half or don't add salt at all. I used 2 C pecans, cashews, and almonds and also added sesame seeds. In the last 3 minutes I added coconut and chopped apricots. Turned out well except for the salt.
Replaced oil with butter, no added sugar or supplement with cherries candied ginger and coconut flakes
Loved this recipe except it is way too sweet. I will leave out the sugar next time as I am sure the maple syrup will be enough to sweeten this.
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