Friday's Faves...a delicious, nutritious, hearty, homemade granola recipe!

I don't know why, but my favorite store-bought granola recently doubled in price!

A friend gave me her homemade granola recipe over a year ago,

and, motivated by the ridiculous price of the store-bought granola,

I decided to finally go ahead and make my own granola using her recipe.

I, as is my usual way of cooking, made a few changes to her recipe.

Here's her recipe, with my changes in parentheses.

(This is for a double batch of her original recipe.)

Preheat oven to 300degrees.

(Space the oven racks several inches apart from each other.)

Pan spray two cookie sheets. 

(I just lined them with parchment paper instead.)

In a large bowl combine:

 2/3 cup of canola oil, 

1 cup of honey or maple syrup (I used 3/4 cup of honey)

1 cup of brown sugar (I omitted this entirely)

2 Tablespoons good vanilla

1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon

 1 teaspoon salt

Add 6 cups old fashioned rolled oats 

and

4 cups of chopped pecans (that's a lot of nuts, which are pricey. 

 I used 1 cup chopped walnuts and 1 cup sliced almonds)

Stir to combine.

Divide the mixture between the cookie sheets.

Bake for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Add 2 cups sweetened shredded coconut, (1 cup to each pan),

stir and return to oven for 15 more minutes until the mixture is golden brown.

Remove from oven and let cool completely.

To the entire batch, stir in 2 cups of dried fruit. 

(I used a combination of chopped dried apricots, raisins and dried cranberries.

Store in airtight container.

This is delicious for breakfast on top of some greek yogurt.

Well, it's almost Friday!

I hope you all have a 

HAPPY, HAPPY Friday

and

a BLESSED weekend!

     
         

                  

Jennifer Rizzo's Fabulously Creative Friday