Healthy and easy on the budget

Looking for the best healthy food on a budget? Try these sticky, sweet granola bars, complete with variations of your favorite flavor to suit your palate. Adjust the recipe any way you like to satisfy your cravings.

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• 50 g the beginning of sourdough
• 20 g honey or maple syrup
• 10 g melted coconut oil
• 5 g vanilla extract
• 100 gr rolled oats
• 100 gr nuts and seeds
• 2 g cinnamon
• 1 g nutmeg
• 2 g salt
• 50 g dry fruit

1. Preheat your oven to 320 degrees F.
2. Add the sourdough starter, honey, vanilla and coconut oil to a bowl and mix until well combined.
3. Next, add the oats, nuts and spices and mix together. Press a thin layer of granola onto a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
4. Bake for 20 minutes until the mixture is slightly toasted. Keep an eye on the granola as the honey can burn easily.
5. Once cooled, break the granola into small pieces and add your dried fruit to the granola.
6. Store the granola in an airtight container.

• Author: Natasha Krajnc
• Cooking time: 20 minutes
• Category: the snack

Why Use a Sourdough Starter in Granola?

You've probably heard that granola is healthy. What about sourdough granola?

Adding a sourdough starter to your homemade granola will help bind the ingredients together. The starter will enable you to produce a chunky granola, nicely gluing together seeds, nuts and oats.

You can keep the sourdough granola as long as you like. For a sweeter taste, include honey or maple syrup to bind the granola ingredients together, creating a sticky, sweet and sour granola.

Using a Sourdough Granola Tosser

The best thing about this granola recipe is that you can use an active sourdough starter or a sourdough starter.

If you want to use a wipe, you'll need to make sure that you the starter is a few weeks oldthen remove a small portion of the starter to use as a wipe.

Sourdough granola recipe

Sourdough Granola is super quick and easy to pull together. The only challenging part of this recipe is committing to the type of nuts and seeds you want! You can use anything you like, from raisins and dried pumpkin seeds to chopped dried apricots.

Here's how to make this delicious granola mix:

Ingredients

• 50 g starter for sourdough
• 20 g of honey or maple syrup
• 10 g of melted coconut oil
• 5 g of vanilla extract
• 100 g rolled oats
• 100 g of nuts and seeds
• 2 g of cinnamon
• 1 g of nutmeg
• 2 g of salt
• 50 g of dried fruit

GUIDELINES

1. Preheat your oven to 320F.
2. Add the sourdough starter, honey, vanilla and coconut oil to a bowl and mix until well combined.
3. Next, add the oats, nuts and spices and mix together. Press a thin layer of granola onto a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
4. Bake for 20 minutes until the mixture is slightly toasted. Keep an eye on the granola as the honey can burn easily.
5. Once cooled, break the granola into small pieces and add your dried fruit to the granola.
6. Store the granola in an airtight container.

Tips for the Best Sourdough Granola

Although this sourdough granola recipe is incredibly simple to make, there are a few tips and tricks that can ensure the best sourdough granola results:

• Try using a jump starter or a freshly started part of your engine. Avoid using an old waste as this will change the pleasant flavors of your sourdough granola, giving it a stronger taste.
• Bake the granola slowlyon low heat, so that the mass does not burn easily.
• If the edges of your granola are golden but the middle looks a little undercooked, just break the ends and remove them. Place the middle back in the oven for a few minutes to cool.
• Add the dried fruit only after the granola has eaten baked and cooled.

How to store delicious granola

Store homemade granola in an airtight container or chilled glass jar on your counter to keep it fresh and edible for longer.

While an airtight container will certainly keep the granola fresh, the glass jar will keep the crunch.

Granola Sourdough Flavor Variations

This sourdough granola recipe is perfect just the way it is, but a few of these flavor variations can take this already delicious recipe and turn it into a phenomenal treat.

Here are some suggestions to try:

• Honey Oatmeal Sourdough Granola: Use 50g of raw almonds and 50g of rice grains for the seeds. Add 40g of honey and you can go ahead and bake it as is without adding your dried fruit afterwards.
• Maple Sourdough Granola: Replace honey with maple syrup for sweeter granola. Instead of nuts and seeds, add 100 grams of chopped pecans.
• Sourdough granola with apricots and almonds: Include 70 g of natural almonds and remove the spices. Then add 100 g of chopped and dried apricots and after the granola has baked and cooled, continue to add 50 g of ground almonds.
• Chocolate Coconut Dough Granola: Use 100 g of grated coconut instead of nuts and seeds, then 20 g of cocoa powder instead of spices, finally mix with 40-60 g of mini chocolate after the granola has cooled.
• Apple cinnamon sourdough granola: Use 100g of nuts instead of nuts and seeds, add another 4g of cinnamon, then 100g of dried apple pieces after the granola has baked and cooled.
• Pumpkin Spice Sourdough Granola: Stir in 50g of pecans and pumpkin seeds, add 2 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice, then 100g of blueberries.

Homemade sourdough granola

Enjoy these sweet granola bars for breakfast, or as a pre-dinner snack.

As mentioned, you can change this in any way you want, and a great way is to try this Vanilla Almond Granola recipe!

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