I haven't done a recipe post in a very long time, apologies loyal readers but life just got in the way. This beautiful crunch granola was originally inspired by a facebook post by Miranda Gore Browne ( off on of the early series of GBBO), she posted something similar and it looked delicious, so myself the task of creating a granola which would use overripe bananas.
We all experience the unloved banana from time to time, Mr LF refuses to eat banana once slightly spotty so I nearly always have an ample supply of bananas for bakes and makes, but this one has become one of my favourites, so frugal , so delicious.
For the last month or so I have been sharing the recipe with some of my work collegues and they all love it, so here goes.....
What you need
- Roughly 1 1/2 cups of rolled oats (if you need gluten free, buy GF oats)
- 1/4 cup of chopped mixed nuts ( I buy a mixed bag with skins on and roughly chop)
- 1/4 cup of mixed seeds (pumpkin, sunflower, linseed, etc)
- A few drops of vanilla extract
- Pinch of sea salt
- 1 1/2 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 1/2 tsp runny honey
- 1 large ripe banana
- Pre heat the oven to 200c
- Prepare your baking tray, line with baking parchment
- In a large bowl, mash the banana with a fork
- Add the coconut oil, vanilla and honey.
- Mix until you have a smoothish mixture, mashing any coconut oil lumps
- Add the rest of the ingredients and mix thoroughly.
- Strew on the baking tray so you have a moist rubble like texture
- Place in the oven for approx 12 minutes , remove and turn the rubble to dry out the other side
- Place back in oven for approx 10 minutes until your granola is golden and slightly crunchy.
- Switch the oven off but leave tray in oven to cool with the oven door a jar to let the granola dry out further.
- Once cool store in an airtight jar, I find a kilner jar is perfect.