Recipe: Healthy Sourdough Granola with Chocolate Chips
Granola and sourdough sounds like a strange combination at first. But it's actually a pretty perfect match. Sourdough gives your granola flavour and crunch and the recipe is completely vegan. You also have the option of fermenting your granola before baking.
Ingredients
- 500 g rolled oats old fashioned
- 200 g nuts and seeds e.g. linseed, hazelnuts or almonds; whole, chopped, sliced or ground
- 150 g nut butter e.g. almond butter
- about 100 g syrup e.g. date, rice or agave; to taste
- 100 g sourdough starter or discard
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 100 g chocolate chips
- 100 g dried fruit e.g. cranberries or raisins
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Mix the rolled oats, nuts and spices in a bowl.
- Mix the liquid ingredients in a bowl and pour over the dry ingredients. All dry ingredients should be covered with syrup, nut butter and starter.
- Pour the mixture onto a baking tray, spread as flat as possible and bake at 160 degrees for about 40 minutes.
- Spread the chocolate chips and dried fruit over the hot granola and mix in well.
- Leave the granola to cool completely and store in a sealed jar.
- Serve the chocolate granola with yoghurt or oat milk. Bon appétit!
Notes
Fermented granola
Not only does the discard give your granola a special flavour, it also makes it extra crunchy without you having to use more fat and sugar. If you also want to take advantage of all the health benefits of sourdough, you can ferment your granola before baking. To do this, mix the rolled oats with nuts, seeds, spices, syrup and nut butter and leave the mixture in the fridge overnight. The next morning, bake your granola as described in the recipe.