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Tropical Granola
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Description
A healthy tropical granola made with mashed banana and unsweetened applesauce.
Ingredients
- 1 whole Ripe Banana
- ½ cups Unsweetened Applesauce
- ¼ cups Honey
- 1 Tablespoon Canola Oil
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- ½ teaspoons Ground Ginger
- ¼ teaspoons Ground Nutmeg
- ½ teaspoons Salt
- ⅔ cups Shredded Coconut
- ⅔ cups Dried Cranberries
- 1 cup Dried Apricots, Chopped
- 1 cup Dried Pineapple, Chopped
- 4 cups Old Fashioned Rolled Oats
- ½ cups Ground Flax Seed
- 1 cup Pecans, Chopped
- 1 whole Egg White
Preparation
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line 2 large baking sheets with Silpats or parchment paper. Combine banana, applesauce, honey, oil, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt and whisk together until smooth in a large bowl. Add remaining ingredients (except egg white) and stir gently with a wooden spoon until well incorporated. The mixture will be dry but all dry ingredients should be moistened. Beat egg white with a whisk until foamy and pour over mixture. Stir to incorporate.
Spread in an even layer onto prepared pans. If mixture is too deep, it may take longer to bake. Bake about 30 minutes, stir gently making sure to move the granola from the edges into the middle and bake about 20 minutes more. Remove from the oven and cool on the pans. Transfer to storage containers. Recipe yields about 3 quart-size jars of granola.
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homemadebyholman on 6.9.2010
I think its a personal preference, I’ve seen recipes that add the fruit before or after baking. Glad you liked it!
jenniferlynn on 5.25.2010
I made this on the weekend, since I had a cupboard full of dried fruit that I wanted to use up. The mashed banana and the spices gave it a great flavour! I think next time, though, I will add the dried fruit after I bake the granola. My dried cranberries and apricots got a bit crispier than I would have liked.