This homemade healthy granola recipe, flavored with pumpkin pie spice, is a great way to usher in fall. Once the calendar flips to October, it’s game on here for all things pumpkin and pumpkin spice! But if you don’t like pumpkin pie spice, no worries. The spices can be swapped out or omitted all together.
Something about the cooler air excites me to turn on the oven and smell the sweet smells of fall. Ever since I cooked a pumpkin in my Instant Pot, I’ve been obsessing over with all things pumpkin. Pumpkin bread, pumpkin waffles, pumpkin pie essential oil blends, and pumpkin pie spice in anything that will allow begin to happen!
Tips on Making Homemade Healthy Granola Recipe
If your family likes granola, homemade granola is a healthier and cheaper alternative to store bought varieties. This DIY granola recipe can be left unflavored or you can add pumpkin pie spice like I did.
In order to get the bigs chunks of granola, make sure as you’re stirring the granola that you don’t stir it without bringing it back together and pressing it down. Not only does this help your granola not burn because it’s too thin on the sides, but when the granola cools it forms those chunks.
While melting your coconut oil, don’t get it too hot and smoke. Coconut oil melts pretty quickly and heating it past it’s smoke point makes it less healthy for you. Using coconut oil instead of other oils helps you get a natural source of lauric acid. This essential fatty acid supports a healthy immune system and gut. 2 tablespoons of coconut oil has about 12 grams of lauric acid. (source: Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon)
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Homemade Healthy Granola Recipe
This healthy granola recipe can be left plain or have vanilla, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, or your other favorite spices to it!
Ingredients
- 2.5 cups whole oats
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 3-4 tbsp coconut oil*, melted
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice, optional
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325*f
- Melt oil in a pan, without overheating it to it's smoke point.
- Add maple syrup, vanilla, salt, & pumpkin spice (if using). Mix together.
- Mix in oats then fold in pecans. You can use a wooden spoon, but sometimes the girls and I do this by hand.
- Place on parchment lined sheet so that your oats are too thinly spread out. This will help your oats on the outside not burn & give you those clumps of granola.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes but making sure you get them back into a flat pile in the middle of your pan.
- Allow to cool. Break apart pieces then store in a glass, airtight container.
Notes
You can also mix in the oats by hand & the coconut oil will melt from the heat of your hands.
If you chose to melt your coconut oil in a pot or pan, make sure it doesn't smoke as this degrades your coconut oil's healthy properties!
If pumpkin spice isn't your thing, you are more than welcome to opt for no spices. Alternatively, you could add 1 tsp cinnamon.
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