I know this may seem ungrateful but I don’t always like to get breakfast brought to me in bed. I mean I love my bed and I particularly love lying in bed on a Sunday morning catching up on the week’s newpapers that have built up by the side of the bed. I also like a cup of tea in bed but that’s where I draw the line. I just don’t enjoy the crumbs or trying to balance bowls and papers and cup (yes I do have a tray but I don’t like trays in bed either).
2 cups oat flakes, jumbo rolled flakes
1 cup rye flakes
1 cup flaked almonds
1 cup mix of any of the following, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, toasted flaked coconut or desiccated coconut, linseeds
1 cup chopped up dried fruit, sultanas, figs, dates, cherries, semi-dried apricot
2 tablespoons runny honey
1 tablespoon groundnut oil, or any simple bland tasting oil (not olive oil)
2 tablespoons water
1 cup fresh strawberries, or any soft fruit like banana, any berries (optional)
Place the oats, rye flakes and flaked almonds in a shallow roasting tin or baking tray (just need some sort of edge to keep it all contained). Mix well and add sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds but not anything that might burn too easily (eg the desiccated coconut or linseeds).
Now blitz the honey, water, strawberries/banana and oil and pour this over the dry mix. Mix all well so that all the flakes are covered as much as possible.
Put the granola mix in the over at 160C and bake for 30-45 minutes (the water will evaporate leaving a dry granola) turning the mix over at regular intervals of 6 – 10 minutes until it is all a light golden brown. (This is a method recommended by
Michael Ruhlman – if you don’t have soft blitzable fruit then leave out the water as well and just pour the honey and oil over the dry ingredients and mix then cook for 30 mins only, I’ve done it both ways and both have merit).Let it cool before you add the chopped dried fruit. Now place in an air-tight container.
Serve with fresh fruit, yogurt or milk and sweeten to taste with honey.
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