Best part of being home during the day?
Skyping with Jilly bean when Bubby is babysitting 🙂 Love her little giggles!
Anywho, the other day catastrophe struck and I found myself without granola [it’s a good thing I’m not dramatic or anything]. Having recently received a package from Bob’s Red Mill, I knew I could remedy the situation.
I also happened to have a couple bananas that were pretty much banana bread-perfect. I reached for the oats and pecans and went to work.
Banana Bread Granola
Makes 5 cups
Recipe adapted from Minimalist Baker
Ingredients
– 3 cups rolled oats
– 1 1/4 cups raw pecans; chopped
– 1 tbsp ground flax seed
– 1 tsp sea salt
– 1/2 tbsp cinnamon
– 1/4 cup coconut oil; melted
– 1/4 cup honey [Substitute agave or maple syrup if vegan]
– 1 tsp vanilla extract
– 1 1/2 medium bananas; mashed
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a large bowl, mix the oats, pecans, flax seed, sea salt, and cinnamon. Set aside. In a medium bowl, mix melted coconut oil, honey, vanilla extract, and mashed bananas. When the wet ingredients have come together, mix them into the dry ingredients until everything is evenly coated.
Spread the mixture onto two parchment- or silpat-lined baking sheets. Bake for 25-35 minutes, until golden brown. I didn’t toss my granola until the very end and was able to get nice big clusters. If you’d like smaller pieces, feel free to toss throughout the baking process.
Nutritional Information
Per 1/3 cup serving
212 Calories / 14g Fat / 20g Carbs / 3g Fiber / 6g Sugar / 4g Protein
Giveaway Time!
Bob’s Red Mill has graciously offered one reader a package of the same 4 ingredients I received above. Click here to enter!
Looking for other recipes to make using these ingredients?
Here are a few I have on my list:
- Blissful Blueberry Banana Spelt Muffins – Oh She Glows
- Cinnamon & Pumpkin Spice Almond Bread – Cotter Crunch
- Paleo Sandwich Bread – Peachy Palate
- Citrus-Pumpkin Seed Crusty Spelt Brown Bread – Healthy Happy Life
Food for Thought
What would you make with these ingredients?
What is your favorite kind of granola?
Ooooo, these are some of my favorite ingredients! I recently made homemade spelt bread in my bread machine and it turned out great. It was just a plain loaf but now I want to try and play around with flavors….perhaps cinnamon-pecan???
Ooh cinnamon pecan spelt bread sounds great! Hope you do make it and post the recipe 🙂
can i enter? i want to make your recipe next! yay!
Of course you can enter 🙂 Hope you like the granola!
I would want to try and make some healthy home made bread!
Mmm the best.
This recipe looks unreal! But I’m more focused on that flipping adorable baby. What a cutie!
Ha she’s the cutest, isn’t she?!
i’ve been dying to try making something with almond meal but haven’t been able to find it at a decent price in NYC!
I get mine online usually from iherb.com or vitacost.com.. other than that Trader Joe’s has a good price!
looks delicious!! this is right up my alley.
🙂
I’d love to try this recipe–a yummy and nutritious snack great for on the go!
Thank you!
Thanks for the share, friend!
Anytime, thanks for the recipe inspiration!
I have been wanting to make granola all week, and this seems like a perfect recipe for me. Thanks for sharing it!
Hope you enjoy!
Ooh this looks yummy. I’d totally make some banana bread with pecans with those ingredients!
Love some good banana bread!
I would make some breakfast bars and add in some protein powder and nut butter!
Love nut butter in my bars!
This sounds amazing! I love banana anything and pecans are my favorite!
Careful, it’s addictive 😉
Oh this sounds awesome. Just pinned it!! I would LOVE to make this recipe. Also try to come up with a protein cookie!
I hope you do try it!
I’d make some cookies, oatmeal raisin pecan. I think the Almond Meal and Spelt Flour would add a nice dimension to the overall flavor.
I can’t wait to play with the spelt flour! Those cookies sound great.
I have some overripe bananas right here, I might try this! thanks.
Hope you enjoy!
I would make a crumble topping.
Ooh, what kind of crumble to top? 🙂
Yes please and thank you 🙂
Haha 😉
Yum! Would love to try this … or some banana pecan muffins … mmm.
Yummm I might need to make some muffins now!
I would love to make pecan pies with these wonderful flours!
Mmm love pecan pie!
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Could I make macarons? Yum!
That would be wonderful!
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Your banana bread granola sounds about perfect to me to make with the products…..but I think I would try a cherry and coconut granola!
Ooh I bet cherry coconut granola would be awesome!
I would make some trail mix cookies with almond flour, pecans, oats plus some chocolate chips and slivered almonds
I’ve never made trail mix cookies but they always look so good!
I really want to try something with spelt flour… maybe oatmeal spelt bread?
That sounds good to me! Can’t wait to experiment.
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I would make this recipe!
I hope you enjoy!
I’d definitely would like to try your recipe!
Thank you, I hope you do!
I love banana bread, but always make it plain, this would be a good excuse to mix things up
Spice it up! 🙂
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I would probably make this banana bread granola because it sounds amazing!
Thanks!
Yum! That granola sounds delish! I’ve actually never made granola before, so this would be a great excuse to try it out 🙂
You should totally make some granola, it’s so easy!
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