A new Granola Recipe
Category Oats
Organic Old Fashioned Oatmeal Creations!
Today I did a baking marathon and made home made granola and granola bars.
Here is a little video of the finished product:
did not have the gumption to do a tutorial, but here are the recipes:
Granola
Mix 2 Cups Brown Sugar with 2 Cups Honey and 2 Cups Olive Oil
Add in 2 Cups Raw Organic Sunflower Seeds, 1 Cup Sweetened Coconut and 1 cup Fresh Ground Flax Seeds
Mix well.
Then add one tablespoon of salt to 1 Cup of White Flour
Mix into dough
Add 1 tablespoon of apple pie spice
Then start mixing in the Oatmeal. Start with 3 or 4 Cups and then gradually add in 10 full cups of Oats.
Towards the end, I just mix it with my hands.
Spread the dough on two large baking sheets and bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes on 275 degree oven.
While baking the oats juice six limes and add the juice to any fruit you plan to put into the granola when it is finished baking.
I used raisins, craisins, and golden raisins.
When the granola is finished baking, place the raisins on top while still hot, this helps them to soften up and hydrate even more. The lime juice gives a spectacular flavor to the oats.
Start to pull the oatmeal off the pans while still warm and place in a covered container.
The acidity from the limes keeps it fresh for weeks, but if you don’t eat it within a few weeks, you can freeze it for later thawing and eating.
Granola Bars
This makes a whole mound of dough, so I refridgerate it and just keep baking them as we eat them.
8 sticks Butter
3 Cups White Sugar
3 Cups Brown Sugar
Cream sugar and add 6 eggs, mix well
Then fresh grind up a cup of Golden flax Seeds and add to the dough.
Mix two cups of white flour with a tablespoon of salt and a tablespoon of baking soda.
Add to the dough and mix well.
Begin adding in chips, raisins, coconut, whatever you like in your bars. I used chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, and coconut as well as raisins and craisins.
Then add in the oatmeal.
As with the granola, you can mix with a wooden spoon for a while, but after a time I toss the spoon in the sink and just go at it with my hands.
I added 12 cups of Old Fashioned Oats to the dough.
Bake on a baking sheet for 30 minutes or until golden brown at 350 degrees.
Cut while still warm or you will never get them off the pan.
Enjoy!
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
A spoonful of sugar (Makes the whole grains and Flax go down)
I bake whole grain baked goods every day.  Muffins, cookies, bread, cinnamon rolls, pizza.  My family is always chowing down the foods I create, especially if  they are slathered with cheese or sugar.
I made these granola bars six days ago on monday, double batch with whole wheat flour and a whole cup of golden flax seeds. Sometimes if I make things “too healthy” my family does not eat the baked goods. Â But if I slather some cream cheese frosting on old cinnamon rolls or muffins, or some chocolate frosting on week old granola bars, they magically disapear.
Once in a while I will come out in the kitchen and a little mouse, named Benjamin, will have LICKED the frosting off the baked goods. Â But he knows Mama has feelings on that score, so generally they eat the whole grain goody. Â I was thrilled to wake up from my sunday afternoon nap and see that platter of bars greatly diminished down to two.
The WHOLE GRAIN catagory of my blog has many tutorials and videos on how to cook with whole foods. Enjoy the archives!
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
The most yummy OATMEAL
The burrs on my first roller mill dulled after many years of almost daily use, and recently we purchased a second mill HERE!
The main reason to roll your own oats is simply for the freshness factor. You can purchase Whole Oat Groats from any health food store and then use the mill to roll the oats and cook them up fresh. The difference in taste and nutrition level is markedly improved when the grains are freshly ground.
To make our morning oats I prepare the water by putting about 6 cups of water in our cooking pot.
Then I add in one teaspoon of sea salt, three whole cloves, three whole cardamon pods, and a cinnamon stick. I throw the spices into the pot in threes so I can remember to fish them out before serving. Nobody like to chomp down on a cardamon pod. I bring this up to a hard boil and then add in a sprinkling of whole flax seeds.
After the water has hard boiled for about twenty mintues I add in the rolled oats. About two cups of whole oats will feed my family of seven. What you will notice is that with the oats freshly ground, they are more filling than if you just purchase oatmeal at the store. A small bowl of these oats fills everyone up.
Turn the heat down to a low simmer and stir the oats into the pot. Let them simmer on low for twenty minutes.
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You can tell the oatmeal is not finished cooking because the oats still look a little crunchy. At this point they have been simmering for about ten minutes. About ten more minutes of cooking in the pot and then this pot of porridge is ready for bowls. The oats will continue cooking in the bowls for another five minutes or so until they are cooled enough to eat with whatever topping your family likes best. Plain brown sugar is favorite at our house, but also milk, cream, butter, honey, and my favorite is agave.
This mill also works great to crack wheat, kamut, spelt, and barley, and it is also powerful enough to make whole grain flour, but takes much physical effort to do so.
Whole grain tip: If you are just introducing your family to whole grains, you can make this breakfast much more digestible by letting the oats soak overnight in some water. Then cook them up with a pot of spices/flax seeds that have been boiled in one cup of water. You can also add in a thumb size piece of peeled ginger to the spice pot to make the oats more digestible.
For those who are into raw eating, this whole meal can be served after soaking oats with spices and herbs over night and just eating it raw in the morning.
Jenny with her nephew Jonah right after his birth (and first baby massage!)
