Granola

From: Chef #879149

On Nov 22, 2009

This is fantastic!! Thank you for posting! I will never buy garnola again, this is easy and awesome! I did use more oats, but I only used 3 cups, but added almonds. Watch it when its in the oven, dont over bake it. I also use a pizza cutter about two minutes after it comes out, and you have nice squares. Enjoy! I know you will.

From: MommaMac09

On Nov 9, 2009

This was the best granola I have ever tasted!! My nieces & nephews who REFUSE to try new things, at it all up!! For them, I added dried fruit pieces and chocolate chips...no need to buy granola EVER again!! It's so fast and fun...the kids love helping Auntie make the granola. For my husband, I add nuts and of course raisins & chocolate chips...and for myself I keep the dried fruit and nuts for a wonderfully healthy & filling snack or breakfast! Thank you so much for sharing!!

From: Marg (CaymanDesigns)

On Sep 20, 2005

I'll admit, this recipe is a bit confusing. The first step really threw me...why would you microwave dry oats for two minutes? Is there an ingredient missing that you are supposed to mix with the oats or is this a technique I'm just not familiar with? Because of my uncertainty, I decided to skip that step and see what happened. :o) I mixed the oats and coconut and some sliced almonds together & then I mixed the oil, brown sugar and remaining ingredients together. The brown sugar, of course, didn't melt in the oil and so it was pretty glumpy. After much stirring I was able to coat the oats pretty evenly (even though there were clumps of brown sugar throughout). At first it baked like the other granola recipes I had tried and it smelled wonderful. When I hit 10 minutes in the oven the coating was more like a caramel corn coating and was starting bubble. I took it out of the oven at about 17 minutes because it was getting so dark. It also smelled a little scorched so I wasn't sure if it was going to be edible or not. The coating was indeed like caramel and it was kind of hard to break the granola into pieces once it cooled. I wasn't holding out much hope of like this but then I ate it and even though it was a bit sweet, I really enjoyed it! It reminds me a lot of a 'traditional' granola bar (you know, the ones before they came out with the soft granola bars in all the fancy flavors). It is crunchy like that and it taste just like the ones I used to take to school. My kids loved the granola too and said it was very addicting. We felt the flavor was worthy of 5 stars but considering the questions about the method, I decided to go with 4. I also think there is a little too much 'coating' for the amount of oats. But in the end, we really liked it a lot. Thanks for sharing!

From: viennagirl

On Mar 14, 2006

I just finished making this in the microwave and it is great! Since Marg said that there was plenty of "coating", I increased the oats to 4 cups. After microwaving it for 2 of the minutes, the big clumps of brown sugar mixed in fine and coated very evenly. Mine is actually still cooling, and is clumpy, but that is what I was hoping for. Thanks for a super-easy oh-so-yummy recipe. I will make this again as soon as this batch is gone. Oh, I skipped the raisins, and will add pecans next time.