Yield
4-6 servings
Ingredients
- 1 cup oats
- 1/3 cup finely chopped pecans or walnuts
- 4 tbsp crystallized ginger
- 2/3 cup soy protein isolate
- 2 tbsp ground flax seed
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp ginger
- 1/4 tsp allspice
- 1/4 tsp cloves
- 5 tbsp molasses
- 2/3 cup packed soft pitted dates
- 2 tbsp nondairy milk
- 1/2 tbsp canola oil
- 1/2 cup packed, dried cranberries or raisins
Directions
- Preheat oven to 300F.
- In a medium bowl, combine oats, chopped nuts, soy protein, flax seed, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, and crystallized ginger.
- Use a blender to blend together molasses, dates, nondairy milk, and canola oil.
- Add the blended date mixture to your dry ingredients, and mix. Once it’s completely combined, begin breaking up the mixture with your hands.
- Spread out onto a thick cookie sheet (or double up and stack two together) fitted with a piece of parchment paper.
- Bake for 10 minutes, and stir. Bake for an additional 10 minutes, and stir. Bake for 5 minutes, turn off the oven, and open the oven door a crack. Leave for an additional 5 – 10 minutes, or until toasted and lightly crunchy. Watch closely, it burns easily!
- Allow to cool on cookie sheet. Mix in the cranberries or raisins, and store in an airtight container.
Noelle
This is by far the most amazing granola I have ever tasted. I added pumpkin seeds and substituted half rice syrup for half the molasses. Added goji berries at the end………granola bliss. Thanks so much for the recipe.
Brittany
Wow, thank you so much Noelle! I’m so glad you enjoyed it so much, I bet the goji berries were a great addition!
Minna
Can I just spread out the granola on to the baking sheet and put in the oven? I don’t have a cookie sheet but I really wanna try this!
Brittany
Absolutely! I’m glad you want to try it!
Lauraa
hey there ! do you have any alternatives for the soy protein isolate? i cant find it any where where i live
Brittany
You could probably substitute any kind of protein powder. If you want to leave it out entirely, you could try reducing the wet ingredients by a little bit (maybe a 1/4 or so.)
Natalie
I made this today! So delicious – thanks for posting the recipe!
Brittany
Hello Natalie! You’re very welcome! Thank-you so much for making it!
zoenm
This looks so good! I need to start making my own granola… it’s really hard to find granola without palm oil, even in organic shops. And this way is probably much cheaper and more delicious!
Thank you for your inspiring and beautiful pictures by the way. I’m so envious of the light in your photographs, here in Berlin we have good light for photos from about 12 o’clock to 3 o’clock and I’m always in classes around that time… well, I’ll just look at yours then <3
Brittany
Thank you very much! I usually have a hard time finding granola without honey. Thank you for your compliments on my photos as well. As the days get shorter it gets harder and harder to take nice pictures. I’ve got good light from about 9:30 to 3:30, with a weird spot around 11am-12pm. That’s too bad that you’re in school during your good light! Let me know if you try out the granola, I hope you like it!