Alderwood Smoked Honey-Nut Granola
Note: this recipe makes a LOT of granola (about 16 cups), enough for you to gift some to your friends, or try it as a topping on tropical fruit salad. But it's SO good that it may not last very long. Note: I tried cutting back on the amount of honey because one cup seemed like a lot, but it just doesn't taste quite right using less honey. And when you do the math, it turns out to only be 1TBSP of honey per cup of granola, so not too bad.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
- 1 cup honey or maple syrup
- 2 tsp alderwood smoked sea salt
- 2 TBSP vanilla
- 2 TBSP cinnamon
- 2 cups sliced almonds
- 2 cups pecan halves
- 12 cups Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Rolled Oats this is about one-and-a-half bags of oats.
- 1 cup sunflower seeds I use a mix of salted and unsalted
- 1 cup coconut flakes
- 1 cup puffed quinoa
- 1 cup raisins
- 4 TBSP sesame seeds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- In a small saucepan warm the oil, honey and Alderwood smoked sea salt. Stir in the vanilla and cinnamon.
- In a large bowl mix the nuts, oats, quinoa, coconut, and seeds (not the raisins.) Pour in the warm honey mixture and stir until well coated.
- Spread granola on an un-oiled baking sheet or lasagna pan, and bake for 30 minutes, tossing half-way through.
- Remove from oven and stir to prevent clumping (if you use maple syrup it may clump more), stir in raisins (if you bake the raisins they will burn.)
- Cool and store in an air-tight container. I store ours in large mason jars.
- Note: Depending on the size of your oven and pans used, you may need to cook this in several batches. I have a small boat oven and it bake it in 3 batches.