Homemade granola diet recipe

Granola very quickly gained popularity not only among people leading a healthy lifestyle, but also among real gourmets. The American breakfast, the purpose of which was to save time in the morning, quickly moved into the category of recipes for proper nutrition and healthy snacks. Homemade granola is light and easy to prepare, and you can find the necessary ingredients in the store at any time of the year.

In addition, granola has many advantages over other breakfasts:

Granola is prepared from coarsely ground oat flakes. Since granola was originally conceived as a promotion of dietary nutrition, its recipe should contain exclusively grains rich in fiber and bran. This is an ideal replacement for breakfast cereals, which lose a lot of nutrients during processing.

Granola is an ideal option for those who do not like to eat porridge in the morning, but strive to include slow carbohydrates in their diet. This breakfast is so delicious that both adults and children enjoy eating it.

Homemade granola is an extremely healthy and organic dish that does not contain preservatives, dyes or food additives.

Most breakfast cereals contain huge amounts of sugar. Dietary granola includes only natural sweeteners in its recipe, which is beneficial not only for your figure, but also for your overall health.

Granola is not only an ideal breakfast, but also a snack, lunch and dinner. To avoid skipping a meal at lunchtime, you can always take granola with you for a snack. Dietary granola can be easily used in other recipes. With its help, you can prepare a lot of delicious and healthy desserts and diversify your diet.

The taste of granola is very easy to change by adding a variety of ingredients. You can experiment and constantly get new unusual tastes of your favorite dish.

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Advantages

Coarse oat flakes are the main component of granola. They are rich in fiber and nutrients. There are almost no of them in instant cereals due to heat treatment during processing.
Source of slow carbohydrates.
No preservatives, dyes or other food additives.
Replacing sugar with natural sweeteners will help you lose weight and improve your health.
The taste can easily be changed by adding new ingredients and spices.

What ingredients to take

In addition to flakes (rolled oats and other types are not suitable), you can include coconut flakes/shavings (low-fat), bran or millet to diversify the recipe.

The ratio of dry to liquid components is 6 to 1.

Some versions of the dish include vegetable oil. Depending on your personal preferences, use sunflower, chocolate, walnut, avocado, coconut, etc.

Any nuts are suitable as a filler, but the most common ones are almonds, cashews, walnuts, and hazelnuts.

Can be supplemented with dried fruits: dates, raisins, dried apricots, prunes, figs, etc., as well as seeds: sunflower, sesame, pumpkin. The presence of pieces of dark chocolate is allowed. Add these ingredients only to prepared granola .

Sugar in dietary form is prohibited. Instead, use natural honey, agave syrup, Jerusalem artichoke, and maple syrup.

Prepare the dressing separately . Liquid ingredients cannot be added to dry products one at a time. In this case, the granola will not be soaked to the required extent. To reduce calorie content, partially replace honey with freshly squeezed juice.

Spices will help diversify and add piquancy: cinnamon powder, nutmeg, vanilla. Don't forget the salt! It brings out the sweet flavor and makes it richer.

How to make granola at home: 5 simple recipes

Making granola at home will allow you to combine products according to your taste and needs, reduce the amount of sweetener or increase the proportion of spices in the bar.

Homemade granola is much tastier than any store-bought granola.

Loose granola

100 grams of nuts must be chopped and the same amount left whole. You can use cashews, almonds or hazelnuts for this.
Wash and dry dried fruits (200 g) well.
Combine oatmeal (250 g) with nuts, add 45 g of vegetable oil and the same amount of maple syrup.
To improve the energy value of granola, add pumpkin or sunflower seeds or coconut flakes to the mixture.
Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper and spread the resulting mixture evenly over the surface.
Place in the oven preheated to 150ºC and stir every 5 minutes.
It takes 20 minutes to dry the granola, then cool it and put it in a glass jar.
The product can be stored for 2 weeks.

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Easy granola recipe

Required Products:

2 cups raw oats;
½ cup raw chopped nuts;
¼ cup raw pumpkin seeds;
½ cup unsweetened dried fruit (chopped as desired);
30 grams of maple syrup or honey;
2 large spoons of coconut oil or other vegetable oil;
½ small spoon of vanilla or almond extract;
1 large pinch of sea salt.

Preheat oven to 150ºC.

Combine all ingredients in a bowl, mix everything with clean hands.

Spread the mixture in a thin layer on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 10 minutes until lightly toasted.

Serve chilled.

Store in a glass container in the refrigerator.

Crispy granola with chia seeds

In a large bowl, whisk together 4 cups oats, 1 cup almonds, 30 grams chia seeds, 10 grams cinnamon and 5 grams salt.
In a separate bowl, combine 40 grams of oil (coconut, almond), 50 grams of maple syrup and 10 grams of vanilla extract until completely combined.
Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry mixture and stir.
After this, place the composition on the prepared baking sheet and bake at 150ºC for 20 minutes.
After 10 minutes, remove the granola, add 2/3 cup of shredded coconut, stir and place back in the oven for 10 minutes.
When the granola is ready, it should be cooled and broken into the necessary pieces with your fingers.
The product should be stored in an airtight container.

Nut bars

Granola bars are very convenient to take with you to the office or for a snack on the road.

Required Products:

150 grams of dried cherries;
200 grams of raw cashews;
50 grams of dark chocolate;
100 grams of almonds;
50 grams of pumpkin seeds;
50 grams of rice flakes;
40 grams of agave syrup;
15 grams of flax seeds;
15 grams of almond or coconut oil;
a pinch of sea salt.

Mix all the dry ingredients in one bowl, and first chop the nuts with a knife.

In another bowl, mix the butter and syrup, then pour the mixture into the dry ingredients.

Spread the granola on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes at 165ºC.

Cool and cut into 10 bars.

Diet granola recipe

300gr. cereal;
150gr. chopped nuts of your choice;
100gr. washed and dried raisins;
70gr. pumpkin seeds;
50gr. almond petals;
150gr. honey;
150 ml freshly squeezed juice;
3 tbsp. vegetable oil of your choice;
tsp cinnamon;
1⁄2 tsp. salt.

Combine the juice with honey and butter and put on fire. Add salt and cinnamon. Heat until the honey is completely dissolved, do not bring to a boil. In a separate bowl, mix flakes, nuts, seeds and almond petals. Pour in liquid syrup and stir.

Place parchment paper on a baking sheet, pour out the mixture and spread it over it. Place in a preheated oven at 160 degrees for 40-50 minutes. Take it out every 10 minutes, stir it and put it back. When the mixture becomes caramel-colored, crumbly and crispy, remove and let cool. Then add raisins and stir.

What is granola?

Granola was developed in the United States in the 1890s. It usually contains oats along with nuts, seeds and dried fruit. However, the product may be made from rye, barley or any other suitable grain.

The mixture is combined with butter or other fat, sweetened with honey or maple syrup, and baked until crisp.

The granola is then used for a quick snack full of energy. Most often, such a snack is consumed on the go.

This type of food is especially convenient for tourists and people who spend their day outside, away from their home. Without access to a refrigerator stocked with healthy prepared foods and other healthy food sources.

DIY granola recipe with millet

five glasses of cereal;
one and a half glasses of boiled millet;
half a glass of flour (wheat or other type), chopped nuts, cereal flakes (wheat germ, buckwheat, etc.);
half tbsp salt;
tsp orange zest;
a glass of chopped dried fruits;
half a tsp vanilla sugar;
four tbsp. oils;
a quarter glass of water;
five tbsp. jam.

The manufacturing principle differs in that first place the baking sheet in a heated oven to 170 degrees, and after 15 minutes lower the temperature to 130. Bake for another half hour.

What's good about granola?

Why is this granola so good?

At least because this is a super option for an easy and quick breakfast without stress - put it on a plate, fill it with something healthy - and in 5 minutes a quick breakfast is ready!

You can also combine it with different flavors and toppings to enjoy an amazing combination of flavors and textures every time. You can eat it:
with juice,
with kefir,
with milk.
with berries
with dried fruits
with smoothie,
with fruits,
and you can even sprinkle it on salads - the flight of your imagination is unlimited!

Moreover, it contains my favorite oatmeal - a healthy breakfast option (and I have already written about all its advantages here, as well as why you should eat it, plus there are many variations of dishes made from it)).

And it can be done in advance - for many breakfasts in advance, thereby saving yourself precious time (especially in the morning there is often not enough of it)) for other important matters.

Well, it’s also sooooo delicious - and your kids will tell you about it more than once)).

Dietary with bran

a glass of flakes and crispy bran;
half a glass of walnuts and sunflower seeds;
3 tbsp. flax seeds;
half a glass of freshly squeezed apple/orange juice;
according to tbsp. olive oil and honey.

Homemade granola recipe without sugar with flaxseed oil

200gr. cereal;
70gr. chopped almonds;
50g each pumpkin and sunflower seeds;
40gr. chopped peanuts;
50 ml each of water and flax oil;
150gr. honey

There is only one difference in preparation here - the baking paper is oiled so that the mass does not burn.

“What about the figure?”

This is the first question that will arise in a woman who watches her figure as soon as she tries this yummy)).

Yes, granola is sooo tasty, and you want to eat a lot of it! The hand itself just stretches...

But it’s important to remember that it contains so many super-healthy, but also super-calorie ingredients, so you don’t need to overdo it!

To prevent granola from turning into a killer of a slim figure, it is important to remember your dose - no more than 3 tbsp. granola per serving. And this is on average 2 times less than ordinary porridge, for example.

2-3 tbsp per serving!!! All the girls who eat according to the menu of the course “ Light-START : 10 days to slimness” know this. And they get slim deliciously and with pleasure)).

Remember this too! Don't let goodies take away your excellent figure)).

Well, finally, let's get started with the recipe))

Homemade granola recipe in a frying pan

This method is more expensive in terms of cooking time. Any favorite type of dish will do. Stages:

Roast the nuts in advance or dry them in the oven;
use a tablespoon of oil to fry the cereal itself until golden brown (5 minutes is enough);
prepare the syrup by mixing the liquid ingredients;
mix hot prepared cereal with dressing, nuts, seeds;
place on parchment and let cool;
if you want, put it in the freezer for 15 minutes. for the syrup to harden as quickly as possible.

How to diversify the menu

The simplest option is to fill it with natural unsweetened yogurt or low-fat kefir. That's it, you can eat!

For a high-protein meal, mix granola with cottage cheese. You can do the same with porridge, which children eat with great reluctance.

To add some “zest” to your diet menu and add a little sweetness, make balls:

to 4 tbsp. peanut butter, add 2 cups of granola, pour in 3 tablespoons of milk;
roll into balls;
place in the refrigerator overnight.

The candies are ready!

Another type of dessert on a diet is fruit parfait, which is not difficult to prepare. Puree some of your favorite berries and/or fruits in a blender, cut the remaining ones into slices. Assembling the dessert: a layer of pureed mixture, then fruit and berry pieces, and then granola.

Depending on the recipe for PP granola at home, you can later use it to prepare tasty and healthy bars at home, or energy ones.

Try interesting tasting apple sandwiches. Cut the apple into thin slices, coat one side with peanut butter and sprinkle with granola. You can improve the recipe by making a sandwich. Again, cut the apple into slices. For the spread, take equal parts peanut butter and honey. Sprinkle with granola and cover with another circle.

Healthy granola

To be honest, I posted the granola recipe on my Instagram for a long time, and even wanted to write it here on the blog, but somehow everything started spinning and spinning...

I admit - I forgot)).

But lately everything has started to remind me of granola:

For some reason, my subscribers began to often ask me about him in letters and direct messages (to be honest, I still don’t even understand what this is connected with)),
plus I recently came across a variation on salted granola (and I can’t wait to share that too – but it would be logical to write about the basic recipe first, right?))
Moreover, granola was included in my mini-course “Light-START: 10 days to slimness and lightness” (yes, it was included in the course for weight loss even though it is sweet and high-calorie)) - because it’s still possible , girls, eat deliciously and lose weight)).

Want to try?))

You are welcome to my course “Light-START: 10 days to slimness and lightness” - there you will find a delicious menu with simple and quick dishes (which even the busiest mother can easily prepare)). We will also do exercises and yoga for the benefit of our figure)).

Join us! Let's become easier together!))

Therefore, all the stars aligned - and this is a sign that it’s time to write about granola)).

About this wonderful crispy breakfast and dessert at the same time. Which is made with your own hands for your loved ones - and with all your soul!))