Chocolate grain-free granola
| October 11, 2016 |
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Lately I found myself buying grain-free carb-clever granola from Woolworths, our amazing and innovative grocery store in South Africa, on a weekly basis. As I was strolling along the grocery aisle one day, my eye caught sight of this new food item which read: "Carb-clever Coco Granola". I thought, "that sounds delicious"! It was quite expensive, as most of the low-carb items are, but I thought I will just try it once and then aim to make a homemade version. The "once" became 5 times, but then I seriously start feeling guilty for spending that much money on something that should be fairly easy to make.
What really got me going was the fact that we moved to a place that does not have any luxury food stores close to our home, and I was running out of the store-bought granola. It left me with no choice. I need to make my own. With a happy feeling in my heart, I started to experiment.
After a couple of tries, I have put together this recipe and needless to say, it is a staple in my diet at the moment. It is too delicious to only have this amazing chocolate granola for breakfast. It ends up being a snack or even a healthy desert as well.
My favorite way to eat it is to put the chocolate grain-free granola in a glass and top it with greek yogurt and strawberries. I prefer to do it without a drizzle of honey, but if you want to make it a bit sweeter, you can drizzle some raw honey on top.
| Servings | Calories Per Serving | Effort |
| 8 | 609kcal | Easy |
Ingredients
- 2 cups almonds raw
- 2 cups sunflower seeds raw
- 3 tbsp cacao powder raw
- 1 cup desiccated coconut
- 1 cup shredded coconut flakes preservative free
- 3 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 80 ml coconut oil melted
- 80 ml honey raw
- 3/4 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
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Instructions
- Line two baking sheets with baking paper. Preheat the oven to 150 C.
- Add the nuts and seeds to a food processor or blender and chop until all the seeds and nuts are the same size. Do not blend until it is a powder, it still needs to be a bit chunky.
- Place the nuts and seeds in a bowl. Add the cacao powder, chia seeds, cinnamon, shredded coconut, desiccated coconut and salt. Mix well.
- Melt coconut oil, but do not boil the oil. Add the honey and vanilla extract.
- Combine the dry and wet ingredients and mix well.
- Spread the mixture evenly out on 2 separate baking sheets. The mixture must not be thicker than 1 cm.
- Place it in the oven and bake for 30 - 35 minutes. After 15 minutes, stir the granola a couple of times to bake evenly and prevent the granola to burn. The granola is ready when it is golden. It will harden while it cools outside of the oven.
- Store the cool-downed granola in an airtight container for up to a month.
Nutrition Facts
Chocolate grain-free granola
Amount Per Serving
Calories 609
Calories from Fat 459
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 51g
78%
Saturated Fat 18g
90%
Polyunsaturated Fat 16g
Monounsaturated Fat 15g
Sodium 249mg
10%
Potassium 362mg
10%
Total Carbohydrates 29g
10%
Dietary Fiber 12g
48%
Sugars 13g
Protein 17g
34%
Vitamin C
1%
Calcium
17%
Iron
26%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
