Pumpkin Pie Granola

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This is from the October Canadian Living



Ingredients
3 cups large-flake rolled oats
2 cups puffed rice cereal
1 cup pepitas (hulled pumpkin seeds)
3/4 cup chopped pecans
1/3 cup roasted unsalted shelled sunflower seeds
3 Tbsp. flaxseeds
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup maple syrup
1/3 cup vegetable oil
3/4 tsp. each cinnamon and ground ginger
1/4 tsp. each ground cloves and salt


In large bowl, stir together oats, cereal, pepitas, pecans, sunflower seeds and flaxseeds.

In saucepan over medium heat, cook brown sugar, maple syrup, oil, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and salt, stirring, until sugar is dissolved, about 3 minutes. Pour over oat mixture, tossing to coat.

Spread on 2 parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Bake in top and bottom thirds of 325 oven, switching and rotating pans halfway through and stirring twice, until crisp and golden, 30 to 35 minutes.

Let cook on pans on racks. Break up any large clumps.

This granola is nice and tasty although kind of dry..more like cereal actually (compared to the other granola recipe I use). So I don't recommend eating it dry, but with yogurt or milk it's really nice. Mine isn't exactly "golden" so maybe I underbaked it.

Comments

  1. PopRocketSeptember 25, 2012 at 7:17 PM

    I made this too - Leigh, because you said it was kind of dry, I combined it slightly with the Nigella granola and added applesauce, and a bit more stickiness with some golden syrup. So for the sweeteners I did this: 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup maple syrup, 1/4 cup golden syrup, and then I added about the same amount of applesauce as the other one: 2/3 cup. Oh....and I added chopped dates. I also didn't have puffed rice cereal, doh, but I had a bit of puffed wheat and I think that works too. Then it wouldn't be gluten free ;-) It smells like pumpkin pie!

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