Any meal gets a Latin flavor from this! To enhance color and flavor, you can add soda (pop, for those of you from the Midwest) such as crimson Fanta®, Orange Crush®, or Inca Kola®.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 45 mins |
| Additional Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 20 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 6 cups |
Ingredients
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup almonds
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup packed brown sugar
- 2 cups dried fruit (such as cranberries, pomegranate, cherries, or blueberries)
- 1 cup pure maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease a large baking sheet.
- Pour the oats into a large bowl. Add almonds, cinnamon, cocoa powder, salt, brown sugar, and dried fruit into the oats respectively, stirring each into the mixture before adding the next.
- Mix maple syrup and vanilla extract together in a small bowl. With a rubber spatula, add the maple syrup-vanilla mixture to your dry ingredients. Fold the two together until mixed and all dry ingredients are well coated.
- Bake in preheated oven for about 20 minutes, stir, and continue baking until golden brown, about 25 minutes more. Set aside to cool slightly, about 20 minutes.
- Gently fold chocolate chips into the granola mixture, allowing the chocolate to coat the granola as it melts slightly. Cool completely before storing.
- Once my oven cools off I usually let mine sit inside the oven overnight and package the next day. It’s great in milk, too!
Reviews
3.27.18 I like granola on my morning yogurt, and this was tasty. Doesn’t say what kind of almonds to use (whole, slivers, sliced), but I used the slivers, and probably will try with pecans the next time. For the dried fruit, I used a combo of cranberries, cherries, and apricots. I wanted to be sure that the chocolate chips melted a bit, so I mixed them in after cooling the granola for 10 minutes, rather than 20 minutes. Thanks for sharing your recipe.