Granola

4 cups oats (Original recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups, I like more.)

1 ½ coconut

2 c assorted chopped nuts (1 cup peanuts, 1 c. cashew and pecans)

½ c brown sugar (dissolve with 1 T warm water—just enough to make sauce)

½ c honey

2/3 to 1 c veg. oil (I use 2/3)

Mix everything together. Spread on two lightly oiled cookies sheets. Broil for 5 min. per sheet. (In my oven I put the cookie sheet on the middle rack so it doesn't burn.) Stir and put bake in for 5 more min if you want it be crunchy. (I only bake it once for 5 minutes because I don't like it as crunchy) Watch closely so it doesn’t burn. Let cook. Then add raisins or craisins. Serve with milk, yogurt, plain, with berries--really any way you like

You can sub the same amount of applesauce for oil but then bake at 300 stirring every 10 minutes for an hour.  More work but less calories and just as good.

 

From Shauna Eccles and Lisa Evans