Coconut Red Almond Granola

On Christmas morning time I ever brand a large solid unit of measurement breakfast.  The precisely employment is trying to create upwardly one's hear … produce nosotros swallow outset or opened upwardly presents?  Often presents win over breakfast as well as earlier you lot know it’s noon as well as everyone is starved.  This yr I’m making this overnight granola to serve when our solid unit of measurement arrives.  Sprinkle a few scoops on transcend of manifestly Greek Yogurt as well as you lot accept a poly peptide packed satisfying snack.  Hopefully everyone volition endure total long plenty for the biscuits, muffins, eggs as well as breakfast meats to endure cooked as well as baked.   

The lovely aroma of cardamom as well as cinnamon filled the solid equally the granola baked inward the oven overnight.  The sweetness cherry-red cherries as well as crunchy nuts brand this a wonderful uncomplicated treat.

I had a few pistachios as well as hazelnuts inward the cabinet as well as thence I threw them in.  Use whatever nuts as well as fruits you lot accept on hand.  It’s all good!

Coconut Cherry Almond Granola
4 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1 1/2 cups sliced almonds
1 loving cup assorted nuts (I used hazelnuts as well as pistachios)
1 loving cup unsweetened kokosnoot chips
1 teaspoon solid set down cinnamon
1 teaspoon bounding main salt
1/2 teaspoon solid set down cardamom
3/4 loving cup practiced lineament pure maple syrup
1/2 loving cup olive oil
1/4 loving cup black chocolate-brown sugar, packed
3/4 loving cup dried cherries (I used sweetened)

(Note:  This recipe is designed to endure made the black earlier serving as well as thence it volition endure gear upwardly for breakfast the next morning.  It may endure stored inward an airtight container for upwardly to i month.)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a large, rimmed heavy-duty baking canvas alongside parchment paper.  Set aside.

In an extra-large mixing bowl combine the oats, almonds, assorted nuts, coconut, cinnamon, common salt as well as cardamom.  Mix alongside a spatula to combine.  Add the chocolate-brown sugar, breaking upwardly whatever chunks along alongside the olive crude oil as well as maple syrup.  Gently stir until everything is good coated.

Spread the granola inward the parchment lined baking canvas as well as bake for fifteen minutes.  Gently stir the baked granola as well as pose it dorsum inward the oven.  Turn the oven off, nigh the door as well as facial expression 6-12 hours without disturbing.  Break upwardly whatever large clumps as well as stir inward the dried cherries.  Serve alongside milk or yogurt as well as shop left overs inward an air tight container.

(recipe adapted from Fine Cooking)

Are you lot baking this calendar week or decorating, or both?  We haven’t finished decorating but promise to soon! Christmas is chop-chop sneaking upwardly on us.  I would dear to bake all calendar month long making sometime recipes as well as novel but I gauge nosotros can’t alive on cookies alone, darn.

Have a wonderful calendar week as well as delight halt yesteryear my Facebook Page to meet my daily posts of Christmas as well as vacation goodies throughout December.  Thanks as well as thence much for stopping by!

Tricia

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