Strawberry Quinoa Granola
Crispy, crunchy and swirled with sweet strawberries! This is one granola that I dare to put up against any boxed cereal in taste!
Servings: 12 servings
Ingredients
- 6 cups oats
not quick oats! If you are gluten free be sure your oats say gluten free on them likeTHESE
- 2 cups quinoa
I get the linked brand at Costco - the regular color or the red quinoa
work fine - I used the red this time!
- Juice of 2 lemons
- 1 cup coconut flour
- 1 cup blanched almond flour
- 1/2 cup melted friendly fat butter, coconut oil, avocado oil
- 1/3 cup raw honey If your kids are used to a much sweeter cereal go ahead and double this. I get mine from a local farmer. If you don't have access THIS
is a good brand.
- 1 TB vanilla extract
- 4-5 cups strawberries chopped. (I didn't take the time to slice them nicely - I just pulsed them in my food processor!)
Instructions
- Put the oats, quinoa, and lemon juice in a large mixing bowl. Add water to cover the grains, combine, and let the mixture soak 8-12 hours. This soaking process breaks down phytic acid in the grain, makes it easier to digest, and makes the nutrients more available to absorb!
- After the grains have soaked, drain the liquid and return to the mixing bowl. Add the rest of the ingredients and combine.
- Spread onto your dehydrator trays and dehydrate at 135 degrees overnight (Or over the course of a day. I tend to soak during the day and dehydrate overnight). If you are using an oven you can set your oven at the lowest heat and stir throughout the day - or you can go at a higher temp and bake it off, again stirring often until it dries out.
- Once the granola is dried out you can crumble it into containers for storage.