Making granola at home is a lot easier than you may think. Homemade ones taste way better than the store bought ones in my opinion. And you can adjust flavours or make different flavours as per your liking. So there is hardly any reason not to make them at home.
This is a cooling summer granola, so it has got to have some cooling ingredients, doesn’t it?! By cooling I mean ingredients that have a cooling effect on the body. So let’s see what goes into making this granola.
Dry Ingredients
Granola in the most general sense is made with Oats as the main ingredient, followed by some nuts, dried fruits and/or some seeds.
This recipe uses old fashioned rolled oats. These are different from quick cooking oats. For making rolled oats, Oats are steamed and rolled into flakes. Quick cooking oats are oats steamed for longer and rolled thinner. Rolled oats provide a better texture and crunch in recipes like granola.
I have used almonds and cashews in this granola recipe but you can use any other nuts that you like, in the same quantity. Seeds provide a lot of nutrition and healthy fats too. I have used a mix of pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and melon seeds. You can use chia seeds, flaxseeds etc too.
Dried fruits bring a lovely burst of sweetness and nutrition. I have used dates here but dried fruits like raisins or apricot will work beautifully here too.
Flavours
Well the most important thing about a cooling granola should be its cooling spices, isn’t it?!
This recipe uses a blend of green cardamom, fennel and dried edible rose petals. All these ingredients have cooling effects on the body and they taste wonderful when used together!
The main sweetener in this recipe is jaggery, made into a syrup along with some ghee. This syrup coats all the dry ingredients and lets the flavours distribute evenly throughout the granola. When baked, the caramelisation helps in making the granola crunchy.
Here are all the measurements and the detailed written recipe along with some notes!
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