Granola ("Women's Nuts")

[The Old Foodie]

Granola ("Women's Nuts")

This is the only breakfast cereal I eat - which is not boring, as the recipe is infinitely variable. I was making it one day when friends called in, and I was (jokingly) telling them of its health benefits (as well as its taste!) and added that it was particularly good for women of "a certain age" (half-jokingly) because it was high in phyto-oestrogens. My daughter commented that I should commercialise it and sell it, and the friend replied that it would need a catchy name, and how about "Women's Nuts". It has been called that in our house ever since.

This is the basic recipe, to vary as you wish:

GRANOLA or “WOMEN’S NUTS”

3 cups oats

1 cups barley or oat bran

1 cups soy flour

1 cups wholemeal flour

½ cup sesame seeds

½ cup shredded coconut

½ cup chopped nuts

Mix well together:

½ cup honey

½ cup oil

½ - 1 cup juice (apricot, apple, grape, whatever)

Mix the honey/oil mix through the the oat mixture, squeezing it well together. Leave as lumpy as desired. Add more juice if it needs it

Toast in low oven until brown, stirring occasionally, and breaking up the larger clumps.

When cooled down add:

1 cup toasted nuts (macadamias are the favourite here)

1 cup sunflower seeds

1 cup "crunchy" bran (the commercial kind, not the bulk fine flaky kind).

Add dried fruit too, if you wish.

To make a Christmas version - add green pistachios and red cranberries. Give it as a gift in a nice jar.

Keywords: Easy, Breakfast, Non-Alcoholic Beverage

( RG1895 )