Recession Recipe: Yogurt and Granola

This week Economy Bites took a field trip up to Westchester to visit Daniel's mommy, Emily! Emily taught us to make yogurt and granola! YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM!!

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Emily's recipe makes, like, a bathtub full of granola. Make this on Sunday and you'll be eating it for breakfast for weeks...literally WEEKS.

Also: you can change up this recipe and make it your own in a tons of ways. Omit the seeds, add berries, raisins, dates...chocolate chips maybe? Not the healthy route, but still an option. I'd love to see and hear about your granola variations.

**this is the recipe for Granola. For the yogurt recipe, please see the video.

INGREDIENTS

8 cups rolled oats

1 cup Sunflower seeds

1 cup Sesame seeds

1 cup walnuts, chopped

1 cup pecans, chopped

1 cup almonds, chopped

1 cup flax seeds

1 cup Brazil nuts, chopped

1 cup pumpkin seeds

1 cup oil, Grapeseed or canola

1 cup maple syrup

PROCEDURE

-Preheat oven to 275

-Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl

-In a smaller bowl, combine oil and maple syrup. Once mixed, pour over dry ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon.

-Line cookie sheets with parchment paper and spread the granola evenly on top (you may need two cookie sheets). Place granola in oven to bake. After 10 minutes, stir everything around. Let cook another 10 minutes. You know it's ready when you can smell it - also the edges should be browned.

-Remove granola from the oven, it'll still be soft and will harden while it cools. Let it cool for 20 minutes or so before putting it away.

 

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Comments

[TwoGayGuys]

04:50 PM on 08/23/2010

YUM YUM YUM!!! Recession Recipe: Yogurt and Granola

[clymela]

06:11 PM on 08/22/2010

I am so making this for my grandson. He is so proud to have a real true hippie grandma much unlike his mother who confessed that she used to hide in the back of our green 64 VW so embarrassing was her mother and vehicle. The grand kids see me in a completely different light-teehee.

[tmdpny]

09:31 PM on 08/20/2010

OMG not oil. I actually use 1/4 cup of fruit juice concentrate (I make my own, but you can buy over sugared commercial versions in a can), barley malt syrup, and honey to 5 cups oats plus what you have here. But not oil...

[Biendiosa]

12:39 AM on 08/20/2010

You'd be better off nutritionally by using a nut oil such as walnut, peanut or coconut in place of Canola oil.
Canola is a manmade unhealthy product marketed and sold to trusting consumers...
http://www.bhawkindustries.com/blank?pageid=41&catstart=0&prodstart=0

[clymela]

06:13 PM on 08/22/2010

So true and very good of you to point this out. Your information regarding canola oil is also true.

[mothergrace]

06:09 PM on 08/19/2010

Using a cooler as a warmer for the yogurt is a great idea. So much better than just sticking it in the corner with a towel wrapped around. I have a small kitchen and it seems as if every corner is too close to something too hot or too cool. I am going to use this instead. Thanks!