Salty Sweet Peanut Butter and Jelly Homemade Granola
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Servings: 9 1/3 cup servings
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Ingredients
- 3 cups old fashioned rolled oats
- 3 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup salted peanuts
- 1/2 cup honey or maple syrup
- 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter no salt, sugar or oil added
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoon canola or grapeseed oil
- 1/2 cup apricot jam sweetened with fruit juice instead of sugar if possible
- 1 cup dried cherries, blueberries and/or cranberries fruit juice sweetened or unsweetened
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment/wax paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, blend oats, cinnamon and peanuts.
- In a separate medium mixing bowl, place honey or maple syrup and peanut butter and microwave for 30 seconds. When the mixture is warm, blend together with a wooden spoon. Add vanilla extract and oil.
- Pour wet mixture into dry and blend together.
- Top mixture with jam and fold to combine. There may be dollops of jam within the batter.
- Place the entire mixture onto the parchment lined sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Stir and bake for another 10 minutes. Stir and bake for a final 10 minutes for a total of 30 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and place granola back in a large mixing bowl. Fold in dried fruit then pour warm mixture out onto a foil lined cooling wrack. Mixture will harden as it cools.
- Serve within the following 5-6 days or keep in the freezer to serve for up to two months.
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