I have made a few batches of granola (muesli) recently but this time I wanted to try a no-grain version for something different. I set about creating a no grain-ola recipe on a wintery weekend morning, it left the apartment smelling divine!
The beauty of this recipe is that you can swap out or add in anything you like, don’t like walnuts – replace them with more cashews. Pumpkin seeds make you want to gag? Replace them with more sunflower seeds.
Essentially you want two cups of nuts and 1 cup of seeds – how you make these up is completely up to you, your pantry and your taste buds.
I really wanted to add some hazelnuts to the no grain-ola recipe as I absolutely love hazelnuts! I made sure we purchased some in our shopping the day before.
Handy Hint: The small pams packets of nuts in the baking aisle (they definitely have them at pak n save, you may need to check other supermarkets) that are 70g are exactly half a cup! Grab any four packets any your good to go.
I really enjoyed this no grain-ola recipe, it was super easy to make and was nice and crunchy. For me there is nothing worse than having soggy muesli, I just can’t get excited about it at all no matter how nice it looks.
To make it a little bit more decadent you could add a few dark chocolate chips to your ramekin of no grain-ola 😉 I did and it was incredible!
- 1/2 Cup Almonds
- 1/2 Cup Cashews
- 1/2 Cup Walnuts
- 1/2 Cup Hazlenuts
- 1/2 Cup Sunflower Seeds
- 1/4 Cup Pumpkin Seeds
- 1/4 Cup Seasame Seeds
- 1.5 Cups Shredded Coconut (or Coconut Chips)
- 1/4 Cup LSA (Optional)
- 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
- 3 Tablespoons Coconut Oil
- 1.5 Tablespoons Honey
- 1 cap vanilla essence
- Turn the oven on to approx 180 degrees Celsius.
- Heat the honey, coconut oil and vanilla essence slowly on the stove.
- Add all your nuts to a bag and crush lightly to break up a bit (or blitz for a few seconds in the food processor).
- Add the nuts and all the other ingredients to an oven tray – or two.
- Pour over the coconut oil/honey mixture and mix through the nut/seed mixture.
- Pop the trays into the oven for 10 minutes – keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn’t brown up too much and burn (will depend on your oven).
- Take out of the oven and let it cool before popping into a container.
Note: This no grain-ola recipe is full of nuts and seeds as well as coconut which are all very high in fat. You will only need a small serving to fill you up!
This no grain-ola recipe is grain free, refined sugar free, paleo and vegan (sub the honey for agave nectar) so most people can eat this with no issues! #Winning
Have you tried a no grain-ola before?
This is such a great, easy recipe! Can’t wait to try it very soon!
You should definitely give it a go, and you can leave out the honey to make it whole 30 compliant too 🙂
Looks delish! Can’t wait to try, thanks for sharing 🙂
Thanks for stopping by 🙂
Just made this and it looks soooo good! Thank you very much. Making this paleo thing much easier.