The theme for this month’s “Tasty Tuesdays” posts will be BREAKFAST, and each featured recipe will be a tasty way to begin your day. This first recipe is for a tasty treat I first discovered in a bulk bin at one of my local supermarkets back when I was living in the High Desert of California decades ago! It was French Vanilla Almond Granola, and I just could NOT get enough of it! Consequently, I tried time and again to recreate the recipe at home, but what I made NEVER tasted as good as what I purchased in bulk from Winco! So… When I heard that my daughter was going to Winco a couple months ago, I asked her to purchase four pounds of it for me. Thankfully, she did — AND she brought it all the way from California to Florida to give to me when she saw me at her recent college graduation. It was just as good as I remembered! However, knowing that I would soon run out of what she’d bought for me, I started looking online to find a recipe that just might turn out as good as what she’d purchased from Winco before her trip, and I found it — on the Delicious As It Looks food blog! And now, without further ado, here is that recipe…
French Vanilla Almond Granola
Ingredients
4 cups old-fashioned oats
1 cup sliced almonds
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup canola oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Heat oven to 200 degrees F. Line a large, rimmed cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, mix together the oats and sliced almonds.
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, stir the sugar and salt into the water. Cook and stir until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat. Stir in canola oil and vanilla. Pour into the oat and almond mixture and stir until thoroughly combined.
- Spread mixture out on the lined cookie sheet and bake for 2 hours, or until dry. * Do not stir! Remove from oven and let it cool before breaking apart into chunks. Store in an air-tight container.
Notes
- I’ve found that when I increase the recipe, it requires more baking time. When I double the recipe, I have to bake it for almost 3 hours total.
So, there you have it: French Vanilla Almond Granola… a recipe for granola that rivals what can be purchased at Winco. Since there are no Winco grocery stores in my “neck of the woods”, I’m so delighted to have found a recipe that will satisfy my cravings for granola AND get my day off to a tasty start. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I feel a craving for some granola!
As always, I’d love to hear what you think of this recipe for French Vanilla Almond Granola as well as what your favorite granola recipe is, so please leave a comment below. In the meantime… Take care!