Simple Straight-Up Granola

This is great as cereal with soy milk and raisins, as a snack or mixed into some vanilla soy yogurt. It has a hint of coconut which I really like, but is otherwise a plain jane straight up granola for when you aren't wanting to get too fancy.

Granola

Ingredients:

4 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1/2 cup raw sunflower seeds
1/4 cup flax seeds
scant 1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup coconut oil
2 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees. Put the oats, coconut, sunflower seeds, flax seeds and salt in a large mixing bowl. Toss to combine.

Melt the coconut oil and mix it with the maple syrup and vanilla. Pour this over the oats and stir well to coat. Put the coated oats in a greased baking dish (I use a large rectangle glass baking dish) and put it in the pre-heated oven. Bake for 25 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes or so. Once it has completely cooled, store in an airtight container.

For 9  1/2 cup servings.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 71 g

Amount Per Serving

Calories 286 Calories from Fat 110

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 12.2g 19%

Saturated Fat 7.2g 36%

Trans Fat 0.0g

Cholesterol 0mg 0%

Sodium 134mg 6%

Potassium 226mg 6%

Total Carbohydrates 38.6g 13%

Dietary Fiber 5.1g 21%

Sugars 11.3g

Protein 6.0g

Vitamin A 0% • Vitamin C 1% Calcium 3% • Iron 19%

Nutrition Grade C-

* Based on a 2000 calorie diet