Holiday Granola with California Prunes
This holiday granola is perfect for gifting – if you’re willing to share. Usher in the holidays with the delightful combination of cinnamon, ginger, and honey wafting from your oven.
What’s in our holiday granola?
This granola is loaded with good-for-you ingredients and warm spices. Want to shake things up? Feel free to swap in your favorite ingredients. We’re fans of this particular combo:
Grains: oatmeal, buckwheat
Nuts: walnuts, almonds
Spices: cinnamon, ginger, gingerbread spice
Sweetener: honey
How to use our holiday granola
This granola is a perfect breakfast, hostess gift or holiday snack. Simply add milk, sprinkle it on top of yogurt, or eat it straight out of the jar!
Healthy + Delicious
Prunes aren’t just delicious, they’re nutritious, too! Because prunes are naturally sweet, they are an obvious choice for a healthy sugar alternative. In addition to reducing (or eliminating) the need for refined sugar in your favorite recipes, prunes are a healthy powerhouse and provide many essential vitamins and minerals that will level up the nutritional value of any recipe! Prunes are low glycemic and loaded with fiber, polyphenols, boron, potassium, and Vitamin K which collectively can contribute to gut health, reduced inflammation, cancer prevention, blood sugar control, bone health, and reduced cholesterol!
Holiday Granola with California Prunes
Ingredients
- 300 g oatmeal
- 100 g white buckwheat
- 150 g California Prunes
- 70 g almonds
- 70 g walnuts
- 1/3 tsp cinnamon
- 1/3 tsp ginger
- ½ tsp gingerbread spice
- 3 tbsp coconut oil
- 4-5 tbsp honey depending on the degree of sweetness
Instructions
- Chop California Prunes, almonds and walnuts into large pieces.
- Roast buckwheat on a dry frying pan for approx. 5 – 7 minutes.
- Put oatmeal, buckwheat, chopped California prunes, almonds, walnuts into a deeper bowl. Add spices, coconut oil and honey. Mix everything until combined.
- Put a baking paper on a baking tray, strew the mixture, spread evenly and bake in an oven preheated to 160F (70C), for 40 minutes. Shuffle granola during baking several times for better drying of all the ingredients.
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