Banana Granola

Recently, there have been a lot of articles on food that we consider healthy but in reality, it is rather shit.

Granola has received a lot of "love" in this regard, especially its oh so freaking tasty crunchy version (of which I can eat the whole package at once). However, they are not considered to be the healthiest. Fortunately, there are people who came with this great recipe for the super healthy granola and due to the miracle of internet they shared it with us.

And so, I have stumbled upon this really healthy but more importantly tasty and crunchy banana granola recipe, and trust, it is worth to give it a try. The geniality of this recipe lays in using ripe bananas as a sweater as well as a "glue".

Okay, forget what I have written about this recipe as being super healthy... The THING is that it us really yummy and the healthy factor is just an added bonus.

The recipe comes from a wonderful blog - Greenkitchen - and I recommend checking out also some of their other recipes.

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We will need:

500 g rolled oats (2 cups)
80 g pumpkin seeds (1/2 cup - I have used sunflower seeds)
80 g chopped almonds (1/2 cup)
2 really ripe bananas
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons honey/agave syrup/maple syrup
3 tablespoons coconut oil (at room temperature)
a little bit of salt

Recept v slovenčine

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METHOD (super easy):

1. Preheat your oven at 200°C/400°F, prepare your baking pan - line it with a parchment paper (and you will save yourself a lot of troubles).

2. Mash your bananas, add wet ingredients (honey/syrup, vanilla extract, oil) into the banana batter.

3. Mix oats, seeds, almonds and salt in another bowl. Add the wet ingredients into this mixture,combine well - use your hands and have some fun :)

4. Spread the granola in an even layer on the parchment paper. Bake for 20 minutes. Take out the batter from the oven after 10 minutes and mix/break the granola with a wooden spoon. Let bake for another 10 minutes. After the granola is baked, I recommend mixing it once again with the wooden spoon and let it dry a little bit in a cooling oven.

TIP: You may add dried fruits (like raisins) into the granola but do that only AFTER baking. Otherwise, your dried fruit will be super dried.

Store in an air-tight container and use within a month.

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