Blueberry and Almond Granola

For reasons I don’t pretend to understand, Child Tester really wanted her dress in the picture. So there it is behind the granola!

Since you all are probably enjoying your ability to more easily make your thermophils (you mesophil lovers already had it easy!), I expect there’s some yogurt that wants eating! Granola is lovely for this, as we all know, so I made some.

Granola is always awesome, but it's very expensive to buy at the store. Making it at home is inexpensive and just takes a few minutes of active prep time, plus 80-90 minutes in the oven. If you want some clumps, squeeze the mixture well once you've put it in the half sheet pan. Otherwise, it will be more like loose cereal. What I find is also nice is to cut the heat on the oven and let it sit another 10 or so minutes once it’s done cooking, because then you have to scrape it from your pan and you do get some really good clusters that way!

Here’s what you’ll need

4 cups rolled oats
1/4 cup each: wheat germ, wheat bran, flax seeds
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 cup chopped almonds

1 cup dried blueberries

1/2 cup each: vegetable oil, honey

Here’s what you’ll do

Preheat oven to 250. Put together all of the dry ingredients except the berries in a large bowl. Whisk together the wet ingredients until well-combined (this takes a couple of minutes), then stir them into the dry until everything is well coated. Spread your mixture out on a half-sheet pan and put in the oven. Bake for 1h20m, stirring every 15 minutes. Mix in berries when it comes out of the oven. Let cool on a rack in the pan, then transfer to an airtight container. Makes about 7 cups.