Whole Grain Granola Recipe (2024)

I've continued to use, slightly altered, a v. old NYT recipe - how old I don't remember.
3 C rolled oats
1 C nuts - almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts,Brazil, etc
1/2 C coconut flakes
1/2 C honey or maple syrup
1 t. cinnamon
About 30 minutes in a 325 oven
Alterations: 3:2 rather than 3:1 oats:nuts; more coconut.
Fast, easy, and popular

This Mark Bittman recipe is my go to recipe for granola. We always have it in the house and you can alter it with different grains, seeds, dried fruit. I like the lowered sugar content and the lack of extra oil. Plenty of fat in the nuts, seeds and coconut.

Hover over the "i" icon beneath the ingredients list. Voila!

If you add a slightly beaten egg white (I know, I know, it's not vegan) and compact it down and don't stir you end up with a kind of "bark" and some nice "clusters" when you break it up.

Quinoa and buckwheat make wonderful additions to granola, especially for those avoiding gluten.

I first bake the oats alone at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes (stir after 12 minutes). Slide them into a bowl with the nuts and seeds, mix, and drizzle with 1/4 C brown sugar, nuked with 1 T water an 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract,and mix again. Return mixture to sheet pan and continue baking, mixing every 5 minutes, until the nuts are lightly browned.
No added fat, and a bare minimum of sweetening. If you have two sheet pans, you can double the recipe.

Try 1/2 cup honey and no brown sugar. With 8 cups dry ingredients will still get crunchy. In response to question, whole flax seeds are basically indigestible. Try ground flax seeds. Nutritional benefits good. Also, I suggest adding dried fruit as you eat it. Unless you power through the amount, the moisture in dried fruit will lead to sogginess in the granola. I find the salt to be a bit much. Canola oil works fine in place of olive.

Does anyone else yearn for a calorie count? I
have to watch my intake of sugar these days-the curse of our modern life-and I am wishing for a nutrion tab that would tell me grams of sugar, too.

I cater and rely on my usual oat granola because everyone loves it. But this one is going to be my granola 2.0 because it's fantastic. I did use the egg white as one reviewer suggested. Great idea. I also used a mix of agave and maple syrup (i find that honey burns).

Cut the sugar and dialed back the salt a bit. Just right.

This is very easy to make gluten free by using puffed rice or puffed millet cereal, and gluten free rolled oats. This is a good base granola recipe making the recipe a little different using the puffed cereal. This granola recipe also works well adding the warm spices and dried fruit to taste. Dried cherries, and dried blueberries are delicious.

In spite of failure to follow directions, this granola came out delicious! First, I forgot the spices, so mixed cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg together, then sprinkled on while cooking. Second, I added dried fruit - raisins, cranberries, cherries at the beginning. Third, I used maple syrup (half of a cup) instead of honey. Added chia seeds (thanks, Beth!). Yum.

This turned out much sweeter than the description suggested (to be fair, "not too sweet" is entirely subjective). To my taste, it was candy-like. I found the brown sugar caramelized and overpowered the toasted flavor of the other ingredients. This was good enough to make again, but next time I will leave out the brown sugar and add less honey (will use 1/2 cup) and less salt (will use 1 tsp).

Left out the brown sugar, wanted it to be less sweet sweet. Used rolled oats and rolled barley. Used 1/4 tsp each of cinnamon, cardamom, and ginger. Just enough. great with yogurt and peaches.

Everyone loved this, but possibly I added too much honey (as well as other substitutions- rice puffs, kasha instead of pumpkin seeds, but still super helpful way to use up things I had in the cupboard)

I find this recipe really salty and reduce the salt volume by half. I’m not afraid of salt generally.

This stuff’s addictive. I’ve made it three times in the past two weeks and gifted some to friends. I like to give the dry ingredients a healthy dusting of cinnamon before adding the wets.

Yes! A winner. Delicious- cut sweetener by at least half.

Puffed kamut is difficult to find in my little town so I substitute crispy rice. I also add a teaspoon of cardamon powder and half teaspoon ground ginger.

I combined this with another recipe I found online, added vanilla extract, dried cranberries and raisins, and I had chia seeds and flax seed on hand. Also seasoned with cinnamon, hands down best granola I've ever had. Way better than any store-bought I had! (Didn't used the puffed grain or the pepitas, had walnuts instead too).

I need to drop in here real quick and let y’all know that if you can’t find puffed wheat or kamut cereal, Rice Krispies do work. My grocery store stopped carrying the puffed kamut I relied on for years so I chose puffed rice. I’ll say it works and is a fun granola add in, but as soon as I find my puffed kamut again, I’m reverting.

Spices: 1tbsp cinnamon, 1tsp ginger, 1tsp cardamom, 1/2tsp nutmeg. Fruit: cranberries & minced dried apple; apple and raisin; cranberry & blueberryNuts: Whole almonds, sliced almonds, coconut chips, pumpkin seeds, seed & ancient grain blend, sprinkle of sunflower seedsGrains: Rolled oats; rolled barleyDoesn't need as much honey as called for. Bake for 60ish mins OR use 3 trays.

I made this as written, though used all oats and no puffed grains. I also cut the oil in half. The granola is delicious. Just slightly too salty for my taste (and I love salt!) so next time I'll use 1 tsp kosher salt.

Adelle Davis's granola recipe is my go-to. Subtracting all of the honey and sugar & dried fruit works just fine. I sub in fresh fruit: berries etc. Yummm! :)

I completely overlooked the dark brown sugar and it was still sweet enough. Delicious!

I doubled the dry ingredients and kept the oil, sugar etc the same. Much better! The recipe as written is way too sweet.

Followed recipe to a T. Came out absolutely delicious but yes pretty indulgent given high amount of oil and sugar. The trickiest thing was sourcing the ingredients! Finally found all on Vitacost. Made extra as gifts for my team.

i like to add ground flax - when mixed with the liquids (oil & sweetener - i use maple) it gels and helps to make clumpy bits of granola. i also add lemon (and/or orange) zest.

I double the dry ingredients but keep the oil/sugar the same - much better- less sweet - have been making it for a very long time.