Basic Maple Peanut Butter Granola
A basic maple peanut butter granola recipe, made with simple ingredients you likely have in your pantry. It requires less than 15 minutes of preparation! Serve it with milk, yogurt, smoothie bowls, oatmeal or more. It's also great on it's own!
Servings 8
Ingredients
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup pumpkin seeds, raw or dry roasted, unsalted
- 1/4 cup hemp hearts
- 2 tablespoons ground flax seeds
- 1/2 cup smooth natural peanut butter (I used salted)
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Add all the ingredients to a medium bowl. Stir until combined.
- Spread the mixture on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 30 minutes, tossing halfway through.
- Let cool on the baking sheet. It will get crispier while cooling.
- Serve with yogurt or milk of choice, on top of smoothie bowls, oatmeal or eat it by the handful.
Notes
You can use different seeds or use nuts instead. I haven't tried other options, but chopped walnuts, pecans, almonds or sunflower seeds should work. You can also omit the ground flax if you don't have any.
To make this recipe nut-free, use sunflower seed butter. Almond butter would also work if you're not allergic.
You don't want to overcrowd the granola on the baking sheet. Make sure to spread it out to get crispier granola. If your baking sheet isn't large enough, bake it in two batches.
This recipe is a good mix of sweet and salty if using salted peanut butter (which I did). If you're not a sweet and salty fan, reduce the salt to 1/8 teaspoon and/or use unsalted peanut butter.