Granola Recipe with Nuts

This Granola recipe with nuts is grain-free and loaded with seeds, nuts, coconut oil, maple syrup, and raisins for an amazing-tasting granola. You will be blown away at just how delicious this is.

Our family is big on ensuring we eat well for breakfast. If you are the same way, then you must try my Dutch baby or Italian Frittata.

Granola with Nuts

Granola with nuts is a grain-free granola that uses an assortment of nuts and seeds as the base for the recipe. It is coated in coconut oil and maple syrup for sweetness, then is baked until crispy and compacted together.

This goes excellent eaten as a cereal with milk, as a snack by itself, or served in yogurt. It is also delicious with fresh berries and winter fruits like citrus and apples, making it the perfect granola to make and eat all year.

Ingredients and Substitutions

• Nuts – I use an assortment of almonds, cashews, pecans, and walnuts.
• Seeds – Sunflower seeds, chia seeds, flax seeds, and chia seeds are what I used in this granola recipe.
• Oil – coconut oil gives the perfect flavor to this.
• Spices – I like using ground cinnamon and some vanilla extract.
• Sweetener – Raw maple syrup gives just the right amount of sweetness to this,
• Salt – I always use coarse sea salt in my cooking and baking.
• Dried Fruit – coconut shreds and raisins help round out the flavors in this tasty granola.

How to Make Granola with Nuts

Select the nuts you want to use and pulse them in a food processor until they are about the size of a 1/4 to a 1/2 of a peanut.

Transfer the mixture to a large bowl and add in your seeds.

Next, add your coconut oil and flavorings such as vanilla, cinnamon, and maple syrup. Flavorings can also include honey, orange zest, cardamom, etc.

Combine all of the ingredients until thoroughly mixed.

Spread the granola on a sheet tray lined with parchment paper and smooth it until flat using a rubber scraper.

Slow roast in the oven for up to 2 hours.

Cool the seed granola and finish by tossing it with raisins and coconut shreds.

Serve or store.

Make-Ahead and Storage

Make-Ahead: You can make this up to 1 week ahead of time.

How to Store: Cover in an air-tight container and keep it for up to 3 weeks at room temperature.

chef notes + tips

• Feel free to use whatever nuts you’d like in this, just as long as they are raw and unsalted.
• Dried cherries are also an excellent substitute for raisins.

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This Granola recipe with nuts contains seeds, nuts, coconut oil, maple syrup, and raisins for an amazing-tasting granola.

Servings: 10

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes

Cooling Time: 30 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour 40 minutes minutes

Ingredients 

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• 1 cup each of raw almonds, cashews, pecans and walnuts
• ½ cup raw sunflower seeds
• 1 tablespoon chia seeds
• 1 ½ tablespoons flax seeds
• ½ cup raw pepitas
• 3 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
• 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoons raw maple syrup
• ¼ teaspoon sea salt
• 1 ½ cups unsweetened coconut shreds
• 1 cup raisins

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 250°.
• Add the almonds, cashews, pecans, and walnuts to a food processor and pulse several times until it is gritty and still some chunks are the size of half peanuts.
• Transfer the mixture to a bowl and add in the seeds, pepitas, oil, cinnamon, vanilla, syrup and salt, and mix until completely combined.
• Pour the mixture out onto a sheet tray lined with parchment paper and spread out until flattened.
• Bake at 250° for 90 minutes or until the seeds are lightly browned and cooked.
• Cool the granola and then break up and toss with coconut shreds and raisins.
• Serve.

Notes

Make-Ahead: You can make this up to 1 week ahead of time.

How to Store: Cover in an air-tight container at room temperature and keep it for up to 3 weeks.

Feel free to use whatever nuts you’d like in this, just as long as they are raw and unsalted.

Dried cherries are also an excellent substitute for raisins.

Nutrition

Calories: 337kcalCarbohydrates: 25gProtein: 7gFat: 26gSaturated Fat: 12gSodium: 69mgPotassium: 389mgFiber: 7gSugar: 6gVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 73mgIron: 2mg

Course: Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine: American

Author: Chef Billy Parisi