Further adventures with beetroot and a lazy bank holiday morning produced this wonderfully colourful granola. It has lovely hints of cardamom and ginger and with no added sugar I can pretend it’s super healthy. It’s certainly lovely with coconut yoghurt. As usual I’ve been snacking on this all day. Granola is not just for brekkie.
Beetroot & red berry granola
Makes a medium kilner jar’s worth.
- 200g rolled oats
- 50g Pumpkin seeds
- 50g linseeds
- 2 teaspoons ground cardamom
- 1 large raw beetroot – peeled – around 160g – chopped into chunks
- 1cm cube of fresh ginger
- 50g coconut oil (before melting – so it’s still solid when you weigh it)
- 2 tablespoons walnut oil (or other oil of choice)
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 50g dried cranberries
- 50g goji berries
First make the beetroot coating. Melt the coconut oil gently in a pan – I find it confusing when a recipe states coconut oil as I never know if that means melted or solid – so I’ve started weighing my solid coconut oil to be clear.
Then put the beetroot, fresh ginger, melted coconut oil and walnut oil in a blender. The texture will look like a very thick smoothie – see the photo below – pre mixing in.
In a large bowl mix together the oats, pumpkin seeds, linseeds and cardamom.
Add the beetroot mix and mix in well – making sure everything is well coated.
Rub some butter on a baking sheet and spread the mix onto the sheet. Bake for 10minutes at 180c/350f/Gas 4
Take it out and shake it up – then add the cranberries, goji berries and ground ginger. Mix it all up again and put back in the oven for another 10 minutes. Leave it to cool then tuck in.
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