Healthy Homemade Granola Recipe | Honey Nut Crunch Cereal

Would you like to make your own granola at home? Bid adieu to store-bought granola forever as Yummefy has whipped up a healthy, nutritious, flavourful, and truly easy granola recipe just for you. The bonus? You get complete control on what goes into your food with this healthy granola recipe. Made sans preservatives with organic granola ingredients, our honey banana nut granola is naturally sweetened with honey and comes packed with the heathy goodness of rolled oats, nuts, and seeds.

Perfect as a snack or a breakfast bowl with milk or yoghurt, this granola recipe makes an ideal food gift too. If you enjoy indulging your friends, make a ginormous batch of this granola recipe at home, place it in airtight jars, and gift it to them. They will love you for it.
 

What is granola made of?

Granola is a baked mixture of oats, nuts, seeds, and sweeteners, though not always limited to these ingredients. It is often enjoyed as a breakfast cereal with milk or yoghurt. For preparing our Yummefy-ed granola recipe at home, you will need rolled oats, melon seeds, walnuts, raisins, almonds, cinnamon powder, amaranth flour (ramdana or rajgira flour), popped amaranth (popped ramdana or rajgira), foxnuts (makhana), ripe banana, vanilla extract, honey and oil. But have fun – change the ingredients to what you enjoy eating or what you have available at home. Try almond flour or a millet flour instead of amaranth flour, change the variety of nuts adding ones that you like, add other berries or dry fruit like cranberries, dried apricots, etc. – this recipe should just be an indicator of what you can add, so make granola a blank canvas with a variety of ingredients to colour it.
 

How granola came to be known in its current form

Granola was earlier called Granula and was even registered as a trademark in the US back in the 19th century. This trademark was for whole grain foods which were crumbled and baked. The credit for inventing granula goes to Dr. James Caleb Jackson in New York in 1863 who invented it at a health spa. It was then sold by Our Home Granula Company and was comprised of Graham flour. In the 1960s, fruits and nuts began being added to it and thus granula became more popular alongside the hippie movement which leaned towards a natural lifestyle. 

Due to the immense popularity of granola as a snack, it also began being pressed with sugar syrup or honey and baked into bars sealed individually and sold as an on-the-go snack. This is now conveniently used as ‘power bars’ by mountain hikers, trekkers, as well as travelers worldwide.
 

How to make granola well

To make this healthy granola recipe well, preheating the oven is a must as it ensures you get the right temperature from the word go. Pre-heating helps to start baking the granola immediately once you place the tray in the oven.

Warming the honey and oil gently helps the honey melt and thin out so that it evenly coats the rest of the ingredients used for this banana nut crunch cereal recipe. The vanilla extract adds an inviting aroma to the honey nut granola. If you prefer other extracts such as almond extract or orange extract, give them a try. They will result in a different aromatic and flavour profile.
 

Using parchment paper or any other baking sheet ensures the granola doesn't stick to the pan. It is also important to evenly spread and press the mixture down after spooning it on to the baking tray for even cooking. Also critical is stirring the granola every 7 or 8 minutes during baking – this ensures that the honey nut crunch granola bakes evenly and results in a golden brown colour all over.

While our granola recipe asks you to preheat your oven to 150° Celsius / 300° Fahrenheit, oven temperatures vary from oven to oven, so keep checking your granola periodically. If you feel it has turned golden brown and crispy earlier than the stated time, remove it from the oven, or continue baking it for longer if you feel it isn’t done.
 

Check out our step-by-step instructional granola recipe video which handholds you through the process of making granola perfectly.

When stored in an airtight container the granola lasts well up to 10 days or longer if you place the airtight container in the refrigerator.
 

Is yogurt and banana a good breakfast?

Yogurt is packed with the goodness of protein while bananas pack in potassium. When you combine these two ingredients in your breakfast, they help build muscle and are considered a good post-workout snack. And our granola recipe is a great way to consume these together.
 

What is the difference between granola and muesli?

While granola is baked and has added sweeteners, muesli is raw and has no sweeteners except dried fruits and berries.
 

Serving suggestions for our healthy Granola Recipe:

Honey banana nut granola can be eaten any time of the day as a snack. To turn this easy granola into an any-time meal, simply spoon some into a bowl and pour hot or cold milk over it. And if you like yoghurt, granola pairs very well with thick and creamy yogurt. Add fresh fruits and berries for a colourful and more nutritious bowl. The kids will love it; mark our words!
 

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