Crispy and budget granola with fruit: how to make at home

Those who cannot eat regular oatmeal buy granola. It has a sweet taste, crunches nicely, and goes well with milk or yogurt. It can easily be called a real dessert. But if we are talking about store-bought granola, it is very important to choose a quality product, because it is not easy to recognize what kind of nuts and fruits are in it and whether they are fresh at all. Alternatively, you can use a very budget option and make granola yourself.

The idea of making homemade fruit granola was published on the Instagram page of food blogger Yevhenia Karpiuk.

Ingredients:

• 300 g of oatmeal
• 1 apple
• 50 g of butter
• 50 g of honey
• 1 tsp of winter spice
• a pinch of salt
• 100 g of nuts
• 50 g raisins

Method of preparation:

1. Heat the butter, grated apple, honey, salt, and spices to make a more or less homogeneous mass.

2. You can grate the apple on a fine grater. Or you can take a ready-made puree. Instead of an apple, you can take any fruit or berries. You can even use pumpkin and persimmon. Approximately 100 g of mashed potatoes.

3. Winter spice is a mixture of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. But you can take just cinnamon.

4. Mix the apple mixture with the cereal so that all the cereal is soaked. Put it on a baking sheet. Smooth it out.

5. Put it in the oven at 160 degrees for 30-40 minutes.

6. Stir the cereal every 10 minutes. At the last stage, add nuts and raisins. Nuts can be any kind or a mix. Raisins can also be mixed with different dried fruits. It all depends on which main fruit you use. You can make tropical granola, oriental, and chocolate. There are many options.