Serves
11
Sweet Potato Granola
This granola is delicious. It’s crunchy with a sweet, spiced flavour and goes really well with milk or yoghurt, or even make a smoothie and pour into a bowl and top with this granola and fresh fruit.
Ingredients
- 300g oats
- 140g cooked sweet potato, blended until smooth
- 100g coconut oil
- 70g maple syrup
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla paste
- 120g pecans, chopped
- 80g pumpkin seeds
Directions
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Pop some baking paper into a roasting dish and add the oats. Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes, until slightly fragrant.
- Blend together the sweet potato, coconut oil, maple syrup, cinnamon, ginger, mixed spice, salt, and vanilla until smooth.
- Place the oats into a large bowl, add the pecans, pumpkin seeds, and blended sweet potato mix and stir well until everything is evenly coated.
- Spread this mixture out onto the same baking sheet you used for the oats and flatten slightly.
- Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes, checking on it every 10 minutes, stirring and breaking it up each time.
- Let it cool completely and store in an air tight container.
- Kcal: 344
- Protein: 6.8g
- Fat: 22g
- Carbs: 27g
- Fibre: 4.1g
