Easy Baked Homemade Granola

🧂 Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1/2 cup maple syrup
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 4 cups old fashioned oats
• 1/4 cup wheat germ
• 1/4 cup flax seed
• 1/2 cup walnuts

  use whatever is your favorite or multiple types of nuts
• 1/2 cup dried cherries

  cherries, blueberries, cranberries, apples, raisins, golden raisins, use whatever you have
• 1/2 cup pepitas

  optional

Instructions

• 1 In a sauce pan on stovetop over medium low heat add butter, honey, maple syrup.
  Whisk together until butter has melted and ingredients are combined. Bring to a
  low bowl for 1 minute then turn off heat and add salt and vanilla. Whisk.
• 2 In a large mixing bowl combine oats, wheat germ, and flax. Toss to combine.
• 3 Pour granola coating over oat mixture in large bowl, using a spatula stir to
  combine making all of the oats are covered in coating. Pour out on to parchment
  lined baking sheet.
• 4 Place in preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and move
  around on the sheet pan breaking granola up a bit. Return to oven and bake
  another 15 minutes.
• 5 Remove from oven and add nuts, dried fruit, and pepitas. Toss to mix
  
  * the reason I do not add these in when I make the granola is because the nuts
  will burn and the dried fruit gets really tough
• 6 Let cool on pan and store in an airtight container.

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