Homemade granola with oats, almonds, walnuts, pecans, flax seeds, and dried cranberries

Ingredients

  • 1 to 1 1/2 cups steel cut oats or Quaker Oaks
  • 1/2 to 1 cup whole flax seeds
  • http://theculinarychase.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_0907.jpg1 lb of almonds
  • 1 lb of pecans
  • 1 lb of walnuts
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar (optional)
  • 1/2 to 2/3 cup maple syrup (just until moist)
  • Cinnamon to taste
  • All-spice or nutmeg (optional)
  • 1 or 2 tablespoons of vanilla
  • Dried cranberries or raisins (optional)

Mix dry ingredients together.  Add maple syrup and vanilla.  Spread thinly over a cookie sheet (may use wax paper if desired).  Bake at 250 to 275 degrees for 1 to 1 hour and 40 minutes. (Ovens vary so 1 hour may be sufficient).  Stir periodically and bake until crunchy. Add dried fruit at the end.


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