Coconut & Peanut Granola Clusters Recipe

,May 20, 2021

Image: Danielle Minnebo

The nut butter in this recipe is crucial as it helps create crunchy clusters once this granola is toasted. You can use a variety of different nuts and seeds, as long you keep the ratios the same. This is approx. 700g of dry ingredients combined with 200g of wet ingredients. For example, you can make this recipe peanut-free but replace the peanut butter with almond butter.

Makes: Approx. 850g

DF, GF, V

Ingredients

Method

300g gluten-free rolled oats
100g desiccated coconut
40g chia seeds
40g flaxseeds
50g walnuts or cashew nuts
175g sultanas
100g coconut palm syrup
75g smooth peanut butter
3 tbsp olive oil

Preheat oven to 180°C and line a baking tray with baking paper.
Add the rolled oats, coconut, chia seeds, flaxseeds, nuts and sultanas to a large bowl and mix until combined.
Add the coconut palm syrup, peanut butter and olive oil to a saucepan and heat over a medium heat. Stir until melted and then pour over the oat mixture. Mix everything together well and spread out across your baking tray.
Bake in the oven for 15 mins, then remove from the oven, stir the granola and bake for a further 15 mins.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely. Break up the granola into clusters and store in an airtight jar.

Danielle is a university-qualified nutritionist, a passionate home cook and founder of Food to Nourish. Danielle’s love affair with cooking started at a very young age in the kitchen where she was taught to cook by her mother. Danielle is passionate about helping people form a better understanding of nutrition and a healthier relationship with the food they eat. In fact, she’s on a mission to help spread the real food message to as many people as possible. Throughout her work as a nutritionist, Danielle’s basic principles have always come back to how we cook and prepare our food. She believes it really is as simple as combining wholefood ingredients in the right way to create tasty dishes that are nutrient-dense and full of flavour.