Make my easy homemade granola with rolled oats, almonds, honey, and vanilla. Save a little money and make granola at home!
I love making popular store-bought snacks at home. It usually saves a bit of money, and from what I’ve seen, the homemade version almost always tastes better! This homemade granola recipe is fabulous, and while I’ve made mine with honey and almonds, you can easily adapt it to what you love.
I love how this granola recipe keeps the sugar on the lower end and calls for ingredients I already have sitting in my kitchen. For more homemade goodies, try my soft and chewy granola bars, baked granola bars, and these peanut butter granola bars.
Key Ingredients
- Oats: I love old-fashioned rolled oats for this granola. Instant or quick-cooking oats won’t have the same texture.
- Almonds: Sliced almonds are lovely, but you can absolutely substitute your favorite nuts or seeds.
- Olive Oil or Butter: You can use either (coconut oil works, too).
- Honey: I love the floral sweetness of honey, but you can substitute maple syrup or sugar (my favorite being coconut sugar).
- Vanilla, Cinnamon, and Salt: These make our granola taste incredible! I highly recommend them! Feel free to add more spice with warm baking blends like pumpkin spice or apple pie spice.
Making homemade granola is easier than you might think! Simply stir all your ingredients together, spread them onto a baking sheet, and then bake until lightly golden brown.
One trick when making granola is to stir it a few times while it bakes in the oven. Otherwise, you might have some overdone oats around the edges. Once cool, enjoy it alone or with yogurt or milk. It even keeps for up to 2 weeks!
Homemade Honey Almond Granola
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Making granola at home is simple. This granola recipe has a base of rolled oats and sliced almonds, but feel free to change the nuts or add dried fruit like raisins, currants, dried figs, cherries … the list can go on. Think of homemade granola as pantry spring cleaning. Have a tiny bit of nuts left in a bag at the back of your pantry? Add it to your granola.
You Will Need
2 cups (226g) old fashioned rolled oats
3/4 cup (75g) sliced almonds
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, melted coconut oil, or melted butter
3 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Pinch of sea salt
Directions
1Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil.
2Prepare granola: Combine the oats and sliced almonds in a medium bowl. In a small bowl, stir olive oil, honey, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and a pinch of salt, then toss with the oats and nuts until well coated.
3Bake granola: Spread into one layer on the baking sheet, then bake, stirring every 8 to 10 minutes, until golden brown (20 to 30 minutes total). Towards the end of the baking time, check your granola every few minutes to prevent it from over-browning (especially around the edges).
4Transfer to a cooling rack and let the granola cool completely. Store cooled granola in an airtight container for up to two weeks.
Adam and Joanne's Tips
- The nutrition facts provided below are estimates.
Lovely recipe as is all your other recipes eg. Almond butter tahini and humus thankyou kindly. It would really help if you could put your recipes on recipe mode
Wow, thank you very much for this simple and amazing recipe. I really appreciate. God bless you.
I doubled the recipe on 12” x 18” baking sheet, cut the amount of cinnamon by half and put the temperature at 340. Took about 24 minutes to cook.
Im a scientific cook! Meaning i like finding recipes and get a general idea of what to do then add my own things. I was needing a granola that included ingredients that would help lower cholesterol and assist with my chocolate cravings. So i added some raisins, and 100% cocoa powder, cashews, almonds, salted peanuts, honey,coconut oil and a little bit of water. OMGosh, very very delicious ended up with a chewy salty crunchy sweet granola that my kids prefer over candy! Thank you so much for this version it was helpful in me creating a wonderful snack that i feel good about eating and feeding to my children.
Could you share your granola recipe
I followed the directions and it was ready at 20 minutes, with only turning them twice. I used coconut oil instead of butter and it was really tasty, I would like them a bit crunchier, should I avoid the coconut oil? Very easy and very good.
When using butter, should it be clarified due to excess water in the butter?
Hi Jeff, we do not use clarified butter for this.
My son is a yogurt and granola freak and I am non-GMO freak so finding this simple recipe was awesome! We literally just finished making it and love it. Thanks!!
Hi. Tried it twice. Was yummmm!! But it kind of hardened after cooling.. was a jaw exercise to eat! So can u tell me.. at what “chewiness” should we remove it from the oven. Thanks.
Hi there, we remove the granola when it is light golden brown. It should be pretty crunchy.
Could olive oil be used in place of mentioned oils.
Hi Janet, Olive oil should be fine.