Decadent Maple Pumpkin Granola
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Recipe type: Snacks
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 3 cups
 
Here's a cool spin on an old classic.
Ingredients
  • 2 cups rolled oats
  • ½ cup pumpkin seed, natural, not salted or roasted
  • ¼ cup ground flax seed
  • ½ cup maple syrup
  • ¼ cup melted butter
  • ½ TBSP orange zest
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ½ cup raisins
  • For options on this recipe, I'd toss in almonds or hazelnuts, maybe add a bit of nutmeg or fancy pumpkin spice flavoring, even chocolate!
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 300°F.
  2. In a large bowl, combine rolled oats, pumpkin and flax seed.
  3. Mix well.
  4. For the granola glue, whisk together maple syrup, melted butter, orange zest, vanilla extract and cinnamon.
  5. Pour over oat and seed mixture and mix all ingredients until well blended.
  6. Note: this might be easier done with your hands.
  7. If you like the orange zest, go ahead and add some more. It's a nice compliment to the maple syrup.
  8. Cover baking sheet with foil (I like non-stick foil, especially when working with syrup) and evenly spread granola mixture out over the baking sheet.
  9. Bake for 20 minutes, turning granola mix once or twice during the baking process.
  10. Add raisins, and bake for 5 minutes longer.
  11. Allow granola to cool on metal rack.
Recipe by BloominThyme at https://bloominthyme.com/recipes/sweet/decadent-maple-pumpkin-granola/