How to Make Tasty Toasted Crunchy Granola Clusters

Toasted Crunchy Granola Clusters. Combine the wet with dry , use your hands here much easier and really press the banana with the dry stuff leaving wee clusters which will toast up perfectly. The easiest oil-free granola loaded with crunchy clusters perfect as a snack, cereal, or topping! Vegan, gluten-free, low fat, and customizable ▽ L I N K S.

Our super grain spin on this classic granola is made with delicious ingredients, including oats, buckwheat, millet, amaranth, quinoa, honey and a touch of toasted coconut. This cereal blends crunchy toasted coconut and almond granola clusters with hearty burgundy sorghum flakes. Dip bread slices into egg mixture then into granola to coat evenly on both sides. You can have Toasted Crunchy Granola Clusters using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Toasted Crunchy Granola Clusters

1. Prepare of Granola.
2. Prepare of corn flakes (see NOTE).
3. Prepare of oats (old fashioned works better than quick-cooking type).
4. You need of nuts (any you like, or a mix of different kinds).
5. Prepare of raisins, dark or golden.
6. You need of dried fruit (see NOTE).
7. It's of flaked sweetened coconut.
8. You need of Coating Mixture.
9. Prepare of butter.
10. You need of brown sugar.
11. Prepare of honey.
12. It's of kosher salt.
13. You need of Other.
14. You need of egg whites.

Crunchy homemade granola is made with a few ingredients from your pantry! Keep them in large pieces or break them into smaller. Clumps, clusters, chunks, whatever you call them, those big pieces of salty-sweet goodness are the building blocks of an addictive granola. BUY IT: Purely Elizabeth Original Ancient Grain Granola.

Toasted Crunchy Granola Clusters step by step

1. NOTE: For the corn flakes, you can use either plain or frosted or flavored. I use the ones pictured here..
2. NOTE: Use your favorite dried fruits (in addition to the raisins). Dried cranberries, cherries, pineapple, prunes, dates -- whatever you like in any combination to equal 1 cup total. Cut up or tear any large pieces so they're about the same size as the raisins for more even distribution in the granola..
3. You'll need a very large mixing bowl that holds at least 32 cups. I use the Tupperware Thatsa Bowl®. Put the corn flakes in the bowl and smash them up a bit. I use a plastic cup to smash mine..
4. Add remaining granola ingredients and toss well with a mixing spoon to evenly distribute the ingredients..
5. Put all the coating mixture ingredients into a small saucepan and heat over medium-low heat until butter is melted, stirring occasionally to combine. Pour about half this mixture evenly over the granola. With the large mixing spoon, stir and toss for about 2 to 3 minutes to evenly coat the granola. Pour the rest of the the coating mixture over the granola and continue mixing until all seems to be coated..
6. In a small bowl, whisk the egg whites until frothy. Pour evenly over the granola. Stir and toss for 2 to 3 minutes to evenly coat the granola with the egg white. The egg whites will give the granola the crunchy clumpiness..
7. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper. Divide the granola evenly between the 2 cookie sheets spreading out with the back of the large mixing spoon or a spatula..
8. Bake in a preheated 300°F oven for 25 minutes, rotating the trays halfway through for even toasting. Turn off the oven, prop open the oven door, and allow the granola to cool in the oven for 3 hours. (You can do make this just before bedtime and allow to cool in the oven overnight, if desired.).
9. With clean hands, gently break the sheets of cooled granola into clusters. Store in ziplock baggies or a covered container..
10. Munch away!!.

When your granola has fully cooled, break the cereal into clusters of various sizes with your fingers. And try not to eat the whole thing in one sitting… This Peanut Butter Granola is an avalanche of roasted peanuts and rolled oats all glued up together into big, crunchy clusters of sweet and salty. Get the crunchy clusters of store-bought granola in this simple recipe you can make at home. Andrew Scrivani for The New Most homemade-cluster granola recipes rely on egg whites to glue the oats, nuts and seeds together. This works, but the texture veers toward sticky.