Sea Salt & Dark Chocolate Nutty Granola
Deliciously dark-chocolatey granola with woody cacao flavours textured with the nuttiness of almonds, hints of coconut and speckles of sea salt.
Ingredients
- 3 cups old fashioned rolled oats
- 1 - 1½ cups whole almonds (or other nuts of your choice)
- ⅓ cup shredded or desiccated coconut (optional)
- ⅓ cup cocoa powder
- ⅓ cup maple syrup/ jaggery syrup
- ⅓ cup olive oil (can sub with coconut oil)
- 1 large ripe banana (optional; if leaving it out, increase your sweetener by a couple of tablespoons)
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- ⅓ cup dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and line a large baking tray with baking parchment.
- Mix together the oats, almonds, cocoa powder, shredded coconut, sea salt and cinnamon in a large bowl.
- Mash the banana and stir in the jaggery/ maple syrup and olive oil.
- Pour this wet mixture over the dry ingredients in your mixing bowl; and mix it all together well, using your hands if necessary to combine.
- Evenly spread the mixture onto the tray and pop it in to bake for 15 – 20 minutes, until the granola has cooked to a delicious golden brown. You may want to stir the mixture halfway through, to ensure that the granola is evenly baking through.
- Once removed from the oven, let the granola cool slightly (for a few minutes or so) before sprinkling over with chocolate chips. Watch as they melt over the clusters, dialling up the decadence by a few chocolatey notches!
- Transfer to an air-tight container once completely cool. While it should keep for a few weeks, in our home we’re down to the last crumbs in a matter of days!
