Vegan Coconut Granola
Equipment
- 1 Oven
- 1 Food processor or blender
- 1 Oven tray
- 1 sheet Non-stick baking paper
Ingredients
- 100 gr Peanuts
- 50 gr Dried cocunut flakes or chunks
- 100 gr Dates
- 2 tbsp Maple Syrup or Molasse Make sure to check the ingredients when buying - look for 100% maple or 100% molasse with a vegan stamp, no extra additives!
Instructions
- Preheat the oven on a static setting to 200°C - if you don't have the static settings you can use the fan to 180°C.
- Add the peanuts into your food processor or blender and blend for a couple of seconds until your peanuts are of a coarse texture. Transfer the peanuts into a large saucepan.
- Mix the coconut pieces and the dates, transfer into your blender and roughly blend for a minute until the ingredients all stick together leaving a rough chunky mixture. Add this mixture into the saucepan.
- Depending on how much the dates have stuck to the other ingredients you should add between 1 to 3 tablespoons of your chosen syrup to coat the granola - the more syrup, the sticker your granola will be! Heat the saucepan and stir the syrup into the mix on a medium heat until all the ingredients appear fully coated with the syrup.
- Cover the oven tray with baking paper and transfer the mixture from the saucepan to the oven tray. Spread evenly with a spatula making sure to have one thick layer of sticky granola. The mixture will be very chunky so no worries if there are big gaps in between chunks - spoiler -we're gonna break it up at the very end anyways! Toast the granola on the middle shelf of the oven for 15 minutes. Make sure to keep an eye on your granola to avoid burning. Every oven is slightly different so these timings and temperatures might need a bit of adjustment to suit your equipment.
- Once the 15 minutes are up, take the granola out and check that everything is evenly toasted and looks slightly hardened. Leave on a sheltered spot on your kitchen counter until fully cooled - this will take around 15 to 20 minutes.
- Once fully cooled down, break your granola layer apart into small rough chunks and store it an air-tight container. Enjoy!
