Easy Homemade Granola Recipe

Do you love granola? I mean love, love, love it. Like as much as I do. Do you want to make your own granola with this super easy homemade granola recipe?

I don’t know about you, but I have always been a super huge granola fan, but…

I just never really liked the stuff that came in a bag. Or box. I always had something that I just didn’t like or felt -eh- about.

Like coconut shavings.

Or weird candies that looked like m-n-ms but tasted completely different.

Or dried fruit that you just can’t quite identify.

When I finally learned how easy it was to make granola myself, I did the old palm to forehead. “Why didn’t I think of doing this before?”

So I would throw a bunch of what I wanted together with butter and sweetener and bake it up.

It was quite good just as it was, but I kept learning about nutrition. And how nuts and seeds lose a lot of their nutritional value if you cook them. B U M M E R.

Then came fateful day of finding out I was allergic to… well..

What seemed like everything.

So, the dilemma…

How to make one of my favorite snacks in a way that kept the nutrition and still was yummy, yummy, yummy? I needed to come up with a revised version of my granola recipe to cover these bases.

And I did.

(OK, I know I am making it sound so dramatic. It really wasn’t that hard, but I love putting drama into a good story. I should throw in there how it changed my life, and I won the lottery by eating the new version of the granola recipe. I think the real reason I am being dramatic is because I am hungry as I type this, and I want to just get up and get myself a bowl. Be right back.)

I’m back.

So, below is the Easy Homemade Granola Recipe. It has a little twist with the cardamom. It compliments the maple syrup and molasses nicely.

This particular granola recipe doesn’t clump up, since it doesn’t use butter or flour to clump. It tastes just as good. And I am working on some clumping versions because… reasons.

BTW, if you don’t like anything in the recipe, like almonds or pumpkin seeds, just swap out something you do like along the same lines. Like walnuts for almonds. Or More sunflower seeds for pumpkin seeds. Easy peasy, lemon greasy. (I watch too much Adventure Time.)

Linking this to Gluten Free Fridays over at Vegetarian Mama.

Linking this to Gluten-Free Wednesdays (GFW), the weekly blog carnival that Linda of The Gluten-Free Homemaker, Cassidy of Cassidy’s Craveable Creations and Lynn of Lynn’s Kitchen Adventures host.

Linking this to Allergy Free Wednesdays hosted by Nancy @ Real Food, Allergy Free,  Tessa@Tessa Domestic Diva, Laura@ Laura’s Gluten Free Pantry, and Amber@The Tasty Alternative.

Linking this post to Waste Not Want Not Wednesdays at Poor and Gluten Free.