Give your morning routine some holiday spice. Upgrade your granola with notes of maple, cinnamon, ginger and allspice. Mix it all together with some Butcher Boy Vegetable Oil, add some fresh yogurt, and your morning is good to go.
INGREDIENTS
4 cups old-fashioned oats
2 cups raw mixed nuts (almonds, walnuts and hazelnuts), roughly chopped
½ cup pumpkin and/or sunflower seeds
⅔ cup maple syrup
½ cup BUTCHER BOY VEGETABLE OIL or other neutral-tasting oil
2 T molasses
1 t vanilla
Zest of 1 orange
1 t cinnamon
1 t ground ginger
¼ t allspice
¼ t cloves
½ t salt
½ cup crystallized ginger, chopped
½ cup dried cherries or cranberries, roughly chopped
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 300ºF.
In a large bowl, combine oats, nuts, and seeds. Set aside.
In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together maple syrup, oil, molasses, vanilla, orange zest, cinnamon, ground ginger, allspice, cloves, and salt.
Pour maple syrup mixture into oat mixture and stir until well-combined.
Spread granola in an even layer on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake at 300ºF for 45-50 minutes, stirring every 10-15 minutes, or until granola is deeply browned.
Allow granola to cool completely, then stir in crystallized ginger and cherries.
Serve over yogurt, with milk as a cereal, or with vanilla ice cream as dessert.
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