The Food Bloggers Breakfast

The food bloggers breakfast must be a thing of wonder. Cold soaked oats, Manuka honey, and exotic berries topped off with superfoods smoothie packed with vitamins. Alas as a working dad heading off on the school run it’s lucky to be a piece of toast with too much butter* and some homemade jam. Now there is nothing wrong at all with toast and at the weekend it is a great start to your day. Sourdough with some smoked salmon and creamy scrambled eggs or with crushed avocado, eggs poached or boiled and a little chilli kick.

Now I will be honest my breakfast aims do tend to aim towards a sky-high pile of bacon, well a full fry up to be honest or a tower of pancakes. I do however like porridge made with milk ( sorry true Scots ) with a little brown sugar sprinkled on top and another favourite made from oats, home baked granola. Granola is a very popular breakfast cereal made from the aforementioned oats with oil and honey or sugar.

So, if you ’ve not already noticed a theme not particularly healthy but very tasty. Factory manufactured granola can be quite expensive and yet it is so very easy to make at home. It is delicious mixed with dried fruits and nuts such as flaked almonds, apricots, raisins, and sultanas or eaten with creamy, natural yoghurt, sliced banana and sprinkled with blueberries.

A bit about Home baked Granola

Granola was invented and trademarked in America by a contemporary of John Harvey Kellogg as a baked breakfast cereal at a similar time to muesli, which is also made from oats although neither sweetened or cooked. With the addition of nuts and dried fruits, granola is often marketed as a ‘healthy option’ however it does contain a lot of sugar. Granola or pressed granola bars ( similar to Flapjack ) are a good source of energy and is often carried by long-distance hikers. Granola can also be used in making and garnishing desserts such as my recipe for Cranachan or served with iced lemon parfait and lemon curd.

*I love butter that much we are almost having a relationship.

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Home baked Crunchy Granola

Oats are gluten free but can cause a similar reaction and may be processed in factories that process wheat and barley.

Course Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Breakfast, Granola

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Total Time 30

Servings gram

Author Christian Gott

Ingredients

300 gram Rolled Oats
120 gram Runny Honey
60 ml Vegetable Oil
3 tablespoons light Brown Sugar
1 teaspoon Natural Vanilla extract
½ teaspoon ground Cinnamon
¼ teaspoon Salt

Instructions

Heat the oven to 300°F / 150 C / Gas mark 2. Place the oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl and stir to combine and set aside.
Place the honey, oil, and vanilla into a jug and mix thoroughly. Pour over the oat mixture and mix until the oats are thoroughly coated.
Spread the mixture in a thin, even layer on a rimmed baking tray lined with greaseproof paper.
Bake for fifteen minutes, then stir, breaking up any large clusters and continue baking until the granola is a very light golden brown, for between five and ten more minutes.

Notes

Extras
Mix and match your favourite flavours.

100 gram dried fruit; Raisins, Sultanas, small diced dried Apricots, freeze dried Strawberries

50 gram toasted flaked Almond Nuts, flaked Coconut or Chocolate pieces

Allergens in this recipe are;

This recipe may contain Flour

Please see the Allergens Page

The Food Bloggers Breakfast and my home baked Granola