Recipe:
Chai-spiced Granola with Poached Prunes & Nut ‘Mylk’
Posted in Freshly Picked
Gone are the days of relying on sugar to make a breakfast cereal taste delicious. With some strategic spicing, zesting, and maple-ing, this granola has more flavour than anything you’ll find at the supermarket!
Prep:
20
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cook
10
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bake
20
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serves
10
You will need:
- 2 cups oats
- 1 cup brown rice flakes
- 1 cup coconut flakes
- ½ cup roughly chopped macadamia nuts
- ½ cup roughly crushed almonds
- 1 cup dried apricot
- 1 cup dried cranberry
- ½ cup sunflower seeds
- ½ cup pepitas
- 1 teaspoon salt flakes
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1 orange, zest and juice
- ½ cup maple syrup
- ½ cup vegetable or peanut oil
- 30g wet chai mix (Alice's favourite is Monk's Chai)
- 2 cups raw macadamia nuts
- 4 cups filtered water
- 1 pinch salt flakes
- 250g un-pitted prunes
- 1 cinnamon quill
- 2-3 star anise
- 5-6 cardamom pods
- 5-6 cloves
- 1 cup water, boiled
- Coconut yoghurt
- Banana (or a fruit of your choice), sliced
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Recipe:
Alice Zaslavsky
Directions:
- 1Preheat oven to 160°C and line an oven tray with baking paper.
- 2Pop all of your chosen dry ingredients into a big bowl.
- 3Meanwhile, heat the maple syrup, oil, and chai in a small saucepan until it starts to bubble. Remove from the heat and add your orange juice.
- 4Pour the syrup over the dry ingredients through a fine sieve and stir together with a wooden spoon or silicone spatula.
- 5Spread granola mix over the lined oven tray. Whack into the oven.
- 6After 5 minutes, pull the tray out and stir the mix around. Do this again 3 more times, over 20 minutes in total (or 25 minutes if you prefer slightly more golden granola!). On the final stir around, mix through your orange zest.
- 7Allow the mix to cool on the tray.
- 8Once the granola has cooled, transfer to an airtight container(s) and store in a cool dark place for up to 3 months.
- 9For the macadamia nut milk, blitz macadamias and filtered water together, then pass through a clean muslin cloth or nut milk bag. Store in the fridge for up to 2 days. Nut milks will separate, so give it a little stir before you use it.
- 10For the prunes, boil a cup of water, and pour over prunes and spices in a glass container with a lid (a pyrex is perfect). Allow to steep overnight.
- 11Serve a bowl of granola with macadamia milk, poached prunes, a dollop of coconut yoghurt, and banana — or just scoff straight out of the jar!
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