This easy homemade granola recipe makes a healthy and delicious granola perfect for snacks or breakfast! Easy to make and a lot less expensive than store bought granola, it’s a tasty way to save on your food bill!
Easy Homemade Granola Recipe
This easy homemade granola recipe makes a healthy and delicious granola perfect for snacks or breakfast! Easy to make and a lot less expensive than store bought granola, it’s a tasty way to save on your food bill!
- Yield: 5 cups
Ingredients
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup honey
5 cups oatmeal
1/2 cup dry milk
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
pinch of salt
1/2 cup raisins
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Mix brown sugar, oil and honey in a saucepan.
- Bring to a boil.
- Heat until the sugar is dissolved.
- Combine dry ingredients in a large cake pan.
- Pour syrup over dry mixture and mix well.
- Bake 10 minutes. Stir occasionally.
- Let cool in the pan.
- Add raisins and stir.
- Store in an airtight container. Makes 5 cups.
Notes
You can also add wheat germ, coconut, nuts, dates and other dried fruit but this will increase the cost of the granola.
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Greetings: For the homemade Granola what amounts would be used if a sweetner such as Splenda were used?
Thanks
Just follow the directions on the Splenda package for substituting but I think it’s 1 for 1.
I just have to say that artificial sweetner (of any kind) is soooo bad. You’re honestly better off using sugar.
I love being able to make things from scratch that I used to buy. Homemade cereal recipes are few and far between.
The granola recipe looks very appealing to me. Can you share any of the nutritional info; such as calories, fat, and sugar?
I was looking for Granola recipes done in the crock pot. When I found them, it seemed that you could do any granola recipe in the crock pot and it has less of an opportunity to burn. You start the oil and sugars in the crock pot on low, then once they are liquefied, stir in the rest of the ingredients, except for dried fruits. Leave a chopstick between the pot and the top for moisture to escape. Whenever you smell a toasty smell, it’s time to stir. The more often you stir, the finer it will be, the less often you stir, the more chunky and stuck together it will be. You may have to experiment a bit to see what works best for you. I don’t think it took any longer than 2 hours for the whole batch to be toasted. I remember the recipe I used had 5 cups of oatmeal.
A good and sweet sugar substitute that works like honey is vegetable glycerin. It seems to be good for diabetics. I would think that granola would be an excellent place to use it! Otherwise, I’m sure it would be fine to just use less sugar. Our society uses way to much anyway.
I hope this is helpful to someone!
While artificial sweeteners are deemed as “bad” by many people interested in good nutrition, let’s not forget that diabetics seldom have choices. While there isn’t apparently a lot of research on these two sweeteners, I have success using stevia and agave syrup. They are lower glycemic index sweeteners and a little goes a long way. Not sure how stevia would work in granola, but I bet the agave syrup would. I may have to give this a try soon.
Yes, I’ve tried both. I don’t like the taste of stevia but I did like the agave syrup. The problem I had with it was it was so high in calories. I might try it again though. I am having a hard time cutting back on the sugar. :-)
Can’t get the other products mentioned so I will stick with splenda.
The only sugar in the house is for when I make bread and one person who comes over. He refuses margarine and splenda so I have it for him.
I have bought one lb of sugar in 2 years.
I have used splenda exclusively for about 6 years now with none of the side affects of aspertame.
I tried your recipe but substituted a few ingredients with a higher nutritional value. I thought maybe you or visitors to your site might like to give it a try, too. So yummy!
Instead of oil, I used expeller-pressed coconut oil. I cut out the dry milk, at least until I can find a better source for organic dry milk. I used raw natural sugar instead of brown sugar. I also used raw local honey and the big rolled oats instead of oatmeal. I didn’t have any wheat germ on hand this time, but I will get some at the store to add to my next batch. Thanks for this recipe, and I hope you enjoy my alterations.
Six weeks ago I commented on this recipe, altho I had never made it. Since then I’ve tried it and loved it! In fact it’s becoming a “regular” here.
We eat the granola like cereal, I sprinkle it on yogurt, and I sometimes even eat it dry. It tastes great and is economical too.
Do you use old fashioned or quick cooking? Also if you other dried fruit or wheat germ do you adjust anything else? Thanks! Sounds sooooo yummy!
Jennifer we use quick cooking and if you add a small amount of fruits or the wheat germ you don’t have to adjust anything. Now if you decide to add 3-4 extra cups of fruit you may want to increase the rest of the ingredients. But even that won’t mess up the recipe it would just be a matter of having a granola with more fruit then “oats” part.
Oh man that takes me back. I grew up in a very poor home but we always had the best cereal. My mom made huge batches of this stuff and it was amazing with or without milk. I don’t think she ever used the same recipe twice because she always seemed to make dishes out of things we had lying around :)
I used to make my own granola many years ago and added every dried fruit [that I dried] and different nuts for my family, to taste. It is still my favorite cereal of all and so easy to make. It goes well on ice cream and yogurt as well!
Barbs
Do you have to use the dry milk or will it come out ok without it? Mine is caked so not sure if that would mess it up. thanks!
I have never tried it without the dry milk but I don’t think it will matter that much one way or another.
What exactly is vegetable glycerin? Where can it be purchased? Thanks
I love this recipe! I came across it years ago and I make at least a batch a week for our family of 5. My kids love it with milk and a little bit of chocolate chips added. I used to make it with the dried milk but now I make it without and it’s just the same. I have also made it with butter instead of oil and it’s good that way too! Great recipe and very versatile!
I’ve been making this recipe for a while now. It is so yummy!
The only problem I have is that when I store it in my air tight container, sometimes it all sticks together. What am I doing wrong?
I am not sure Pam. It could be a couple of things. This time of year here in Kansas things can be affected by the humidity while they are cooling and before I get them in the container and that can cause them to get sticky or you might try baking it 5-10 mins. longer to make sure it gets good and dry. Another thing you could cut back on the honey just a tiny bit. Hope one of these helps.
Thank you, Jill. I will give those things a try.
I love to make this recipe and the Wildbunch aka my children love, love, love to eat it! I do usually use pancake syrup instead of honey and I sometimes add sunflower seeds and some crunchy peanut butter. Y’all are doing a super job. I love that on Tawra’s videos she substitutes for ingredients. I have always done this and it really helps to save money not to run out and buy something.
Thank you Linda. I am so glad you guys are enjoying the recipes.
Do I need to adjust the recipe if I’m using old fashioned oats instead of quick?
No you don’t Amelia
I’m sorry. This is probably a dumb question. Since there is milk powder in the recipe, would you just add water (instead of milk) when you are ready to eat it?
Actually this wasn’t dumb question at all. You can really do it anyway you want. It is handy to keep for emergencies when you don’t have milk or if you take it with you hiking or camping and you can just add water. But if you want it to be even richer you could add regular milk at home to it.
Hi, I have your Dining on a Dime cookbook that I bought almost 15 years ago and have raised my kids on many of the recipes. I’m a huge fan! We just moved and I cannot find my book, it must be in storage still. I’m wanting to make the original homemade granola recipe but this one looks different as I don’t see any cereal in it. Is it possible to get your original recipe? My kids LOVE it! Thank you!
Leslie first thanks for being with us for so long we do appreciate that. This is the same recipe as in the book but maybe over the years you started adding the cereal or something because Tawra may have in a video or some where said you can add the cereal or other things if you want. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help.
I made this for the third time last night! So good! The last two times I’ve substituted simple syrup (1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar, 2 cups water and 1 teaspoon maple flavoring boiled for 1 minute) for the honey and white sugar for the brown sugar. This reduces expense (and health…) I also increased the salt to 1/8t and add it with the wet ingredients instead of the dry for more even distribution. Finally, I cook the wet ingredients in a 4qt pot and after that’s removed from the heat, dump the oats and dry milk on top and stir right in that pot before transferring to a 9×13 baking pan. This seems to distribute the wet ingredients more evenly. I like to toast mine about twice as long as the recipe calls for, stirring every 5ish minutes.
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I forgot to add that I make my simple syrup in a large batch and add 1/3c to my granola recipe. This syrup is what we have on pancakes instead of buying the high fructose corn syrup laden stuff at the store. I haven’t priced it out, but I think making your own syrup is probably cheaper.