The new year is a year of promising good food and healthy at the same time. I've not been very healthy all my life. I don't eat chicken skin because I don't like them but I use all the chicken fat in my rice or melt them down to obtain lard in my egg tarts. I love bread and buns but I always end up eating all the filling and left Aaron with the plain bun. He happily gobble it down because he loves plain stuffs. We're just really opposite in many ways but I like how we click and compliment each other in many ways.
This one makes 5 cups and I've used roasted cashewnuts instead of walnuts. I reckon pecans or almond would be good too.
Granola Clusters
(loosely adapted from Tessa Kiros book, Apples for Jam)
1.5 cups quick-cooking oats
5 tbsp sunflower seeds
3 tbsp sesame seeds
1/2 cup roasted cashewnuts, placed in ziplog and smashed with rolling pin randomly
1/4 cup pumpkin seeds
1 tbsp wheat germ
1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
1/4 tsp allspice powder
1/3 cup firmly packed muscovado sugar
1/4 cup runny honey
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup butter
Have ready three large baking sheets sprayed liberally with butter spray. Preheat the oven to 160°C. In a pot, add in the sugar, honey, maple syrup and butter. Combine the remaining ingredients in a large mixing bowl and toss around to mix well.
Melt the butter syrup mixture until it is smooth and well combined. Pour it over the dry stuffs and stir around to mix well into a wet sand like mixture with a wooden spatula. When everything is well coated. Spread it out evenly within the 3 baking trays and make sure the three layers are thin, some clusters are fine.
Bake it in the oven for 50 mins, rotating the trays around for even browning. Turn off the oven and let it stay in there for 15 mins. Remove from oven and cool completely before storing it in an airtight container.

2 comments on "Granola"
WoW I cant keep up with u Quinn. 2 posts in 2 days!!!
but that granola looks fantastic. i must note the recipe...I love granola :))
Thanks Zu! Yeah, I'm on holiday so I tend to play with food more. All friends are back for holiday so I don't get to hang out much too :(
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