follow these steps:
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. You have two options > you can buy the oats already toasted, spread them in a baking dish and heat them in the oven
> or can you toast your own - mix 2 cups of oats, 3/4 cup wheat germ, 3/4 sunflower seeds, 1 cup peanuts (crushed) oast them in the oven for 10-12 minutes, stirring every few minutes so that they don’t get burned
3. Meanwhile, prepare a seperate baking dish (about 11 x 13 inches) for your granola by lining it with waxed paper lightly sprayed with a nonstick spray. Set aside.
4. Put 2/3 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup honey, 4 tablespoons of butter, 2 teaspoons of vanilla, and 2 pinches of salt into a saucepan and bring to a simmer, stirring constantly.
5. Take your toasted grains/oats out the oven, mix everything together in a large bowl (the grains, the liquid “glue,” and if you desire dried fruit -- about 8oz). Oh, and turn off your oven, because you’re finished with it now.
6.After you've mixed it well, dump your granola mixture into your prepared baking dish.
7.Spread out the mixture with a wooden spoon or spatula. Now fold over the sides of the waxed paper or add a sheet on top, and PRESS HARD all over the granola. Basically what you want to do is compact it together so that your bars won’t fall apart when you cut them.
8. Let sit for 2-3hrs until completely cooled.
9. *3hrs later* Unwrap your granola, put it on a cookie sheet and cut however you like!
Of course, you can mix up the recipe. I plan to add flax seeds and more honey next time to make them stickier -- but you can make your granola however you want -- nutless, fruitless, crunchy, sticky, etc. Ooooh the possibilities! lol.
Let me know if you decide to make some -- tell me how they come out! :-)
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