Or should it be Muesola?
Yes that’s right – granola meets muesli.
Before now, I have made muesli and I have also made granola. Muesli is great, fine, but I’m not the biggest fan of dried fruits, so my options are limited. Granola is great, very nice in fact, but can be too hard or too chewy and I hate the thought of over-developed jaw muscles. So unseemly…
Wouldn’t it be nice, I pondered, to have the concept of Granola in a more muesli form…

So I tried and I liked it. Oh, yes, I liked it. Slightly sweetened with that toasted oat flapjack aroma; it’s nutritious and tasty. It’s versatile too – change the fruit, increase or omit the nuts, change the sweetness… whatever rings your bell.

Heat oven to GM3/160C/325F

Fetch a large, shallow roasting tin (mine measures 13″ by 11″ – the larger surface area the better)

Into your tin, place porridge oats, desiccated coconut, chopped pecans, soft brown sugar and cinnamon.

Mix it up and drizzle in some maple syrup, some oil and melted butter.

Stir it up (little darling) and bake for 30 mins – stir once or twice during this time to even out the cooking.

Deep golden. Now let it cool completely.

So that’s the gran, now add some more (raw) porridge oats and raisins for the uesli.

Stir well and keep in an airtight box to ensure a tasty breakfast.

Have a very good morning!

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Granuesli

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500g / 6 cups porridge oats – half for the gran, half for the uesli
75g / 1 cup desiccated coconut
90g / 1 mean cup pecan halves, chopped
50g / 1/3 cup light brown soft sugar
1/4 tsp cinnamon
100g / 2oz salted butter, melted
2 tbsp oil
a drizzle (2 tbsp) maple syrup

150g / 1 cup raisins

Preheat oven to GM3/160C/325F
Into a large roasting tin, place HALF the oats – that is 3 cups -, coconut, chopped pecans, sugar and cinnamon. Mix.
Drizzle over the melted butter, oil and maple syrup. Mix.
Bake for 30 mins, stirring once or twice during this time to ensure even cooking.

Remove from oven and cool completely.

Once cold, add the remaining 3 cups porridge oats and raisins. Stir to combine, then store in a airtight tin/box/whatever.

Variations
Well, this can be varied as much as your preferences dictate.
If you want proper granola clumps, then increase the butter to about 5 oz and be sure to squeeze lumps together prior to cooking.

Vary the sweetness – cut it down if you want more uesli than gran, or change the sweetness – reduce the sugar, but increase the maple syrup. Use honey instead or maple syrup. Hey, use Agave nectar if you like. Ooh! Use golden syrup – that’ll nod nicely in the direction of the flapjack.

Don’t like nuts? Leave them out. Live for nuts? Put more in.

Hate raisins? Use a different dried fruit or leave it out altogether and just top your bowl with some fresh fruit instead.
Dollop some spooky yogurt on there too, whilst you’re at it.

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