Granola

From: Lena D

On Apr 19, 2009

You had me at 7th grade Home Ec. We loved this recipe - simple, tasty and fun. I omitted the coconut. I did have to mix quite a bit to get oat mixture covered evenly, but once I did, and with the mixing every 5 min during the oven cooking process, it came out excellent. I brought it to a brunch potluck with a bowl of vanilla yogurt and it was a major hit.

From: Funfetti

On Mar 4, 2009

honestly, I thought this would come out horrible in the microwave, but it's pretty good! I didn't read the recipe all the way through and I "combined all other ingredients" (including the raisins!) so they burnt a bit but I will definitely be making this again and adding other fruits to make new varieties! Thanks!

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.