Dan’s Granola

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients

• 4 cups rolled oats (not steel cut or quick cooking)
• 1 cup coconut flakes (can replace with more nuts or oats)
• 1 cup raw nuts (eg. sliced almonds, chopped pecans, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds). Anything in the kitchen works
• 1/2 cup dried fruit (eg. chopped apricots, apple, pineapple, raisins)
• 2 tsp all spice
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 pinch salt (1/4 - 1/2 tsp)

Wet Ingredients

• 1/3 cup honey
• 1/3 cup coconut oil
• 1 1/2 tsp flavouring (eg. vanilla, almond essence, orange blossom)
• 2 egg whites

Method

1. Preheat oven to 140ºC. Line a large baking tray with baking paper.
2. Combine Wet excluding egg whites.
3. Combine Dry including dried fruit.
4. Whisk egg whites with fork until foamy.
5. Mix Wet and Dry in a large bowl, then mix through egg whites.
6. Spread granola on the tray, making a hole in the centre, like a doughnut.
7. Bake for 45 minutes - DO NOT STIR - until golden. Check at 35 minutes.
8. Then turn the oven off, leave the granola in the oven, and open the oven door open a bit. Leave the granola to cool. The colour will deepen and it will firm up.
9. Once cool, break into clusters. Store in an airtight container.