Crisp & Crunchy Quinoa Granola
Crisp and Crunchy Quinoa Granola is nutty, healthy, gluten free and delicious! An easy and kid-friendly recipe your family will love! It makes the perfect breakfast and is great to snack on anytime!
Ingredients
- 1 cup uncooked quinoa any color
- ¼ cup raw pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds or both
- ½ cup raw almonds
- ½ cup raw pecans
- ½ cup unsweetened coconut flakes
- 2 tablespoons whole flax seeds
- 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon raw honey
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup or agave syrup
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ cup raisins cranberries or dried fruit of your choice
Instructions
- Rinse quinoa and soak in a mesh colander in a bowl of water for about 15-20 minutes. Lift colander out of bowl, rinse and let quinoa drain well in the colander. While your quinoa is soaking:
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Put drained quinoa in a bowl. Add pumpkin seeds, nuts, coconut flakes and flax seeds.
- Melt coconut oil in a small pan. In a small bowl, mix coconut oil with maple syrup, honey, vanilla and cinnamon. Pour over quinoa and mix well.
- Pour mixture onto a greased, rimmed baking sheet. Flatten mixture with the back of a spatula and spread well in pan, filling the baking sheet as much as possible.
- Place in oven and bake 7 minutes. Remove from oven and stir well. Bake and stir two more times at 7 minute intervals. Cook an additional 5 minutes more.
- Add dried fruit and stir well into granola. Bake 4 more minutes.
- Remove baking sheet to a cooling rack. Let granola cool completely. The granola will cool as it hardens.
- When cool, break granola into pieces and store in a glass or plastic container.
- Serve with yogurt, kefir, milk or almond milk. Add fresh fruit.