Today, I followed a recipe that I had drafted from scratch for yogurt parfaits with fresh fruit and homemade granola. I found that the original recipe had too much salt and was lacking on vanilla flavor. So, the recipe posted below has been adapted to fix these issues with balancing the taste of the parfaits.
PREPARATION: You will want to begin by preheating your oven to 350 degrees F. I definitely recommend covering the baking sheet with parchment paper to make your life much easier when breaking the granola off the sheet so that it doesn’t stick.
You will then combine all the dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. This includes oats, brown sugar, almonds, pumpkin seeds, cinnamon, and salt.
For the wet ingredients, you will need to heat a saucepan over low setting. The first ingredient you will add to the saucepan is canola oil, so keep the heat very LOW because the oil will heat very quickly at a low temperature. Also, I would like to add that the same amount of olive oil can be used instead of canola oil without sacrificing any taste at all.. To the oil, you will add honey, vanilla extract, and maple syrup. Keep stirring this mixture until it is evenly heated. I originally believed that the ingredients would combine into the texture of a syrup, but the mixture ended up being much thinner than that so do not worry if it appears runny because it will still hold the granola together in the end.
As you can see, you will be able to easily stir a spoon through the liquid ingredients even after they have been completely heated.
