By Linda Martinucci
Prep: 20 mins Serves: 6-8
Start your day deliciously with this healthy gluten-free and refined sugar-free granola. Serve it with your favourite milk or full-fat Greek yogurt for a true taste sensation plus sprinkle over fresh summer berries for an extra burst of flavour. This recipe is great to make in a big batch to portion into fancy glass jars for a beautiful homemade gift that’s sure to impress!
Ingredients
1 cup shredded coconut
1 cup coconut flakes
½ cup flaked almonds
⅓ cup flaxseed meal
⅓ cup pepitas
⅓ cup sunflower seeds
1 tablespoon cinnamon
½ cup Lakanto classic monkfruit sweetener
(or similar granulated sweetener)
80g macadamias, roughly chopped
50g walnuts, roughly chopped
⅓ cup coconut oil, melted
1 tsp vanilla essence
Method
Preheat oven to 160°C and grease and line large biscuit trays with non-stick baking paper.
- Mix all dry ingredients together in large bowl.
- Add coconut oil and vanilla essence to dry ingredients
and mix well. - Spread mixture evenly over lined biscuit tray.
- Bake at 160 degrees for 10 minutes then remove from oven and turn mixture. Bake further 10 minutes then mix again. Bake further 5 minutes at a time, checking constantly until golden brown and toasted.
- Allow to cool completely before storing in an airtight container.
With a background as a food writer and cookbook author, Linda Martinucci has for many years been following nutritional studies and medical research aimed at the best way to fuel our bodies for optimal health.
In 2017, Linda made the decision to overhaul her eating style and was amazed at how much better she felt by simply reducing carbohydrates and increasing healthy fats, also helping her and her husband to not only experience weight loss and increased overall energy, but also severely reducing his inflammatory aches and pains. With Simply Swap Foods products and recipes, you can indulge and feel great too!