Kashi Granola
Recipe: #7996
February 04, 2013
Categories: Breakfast, Oats, One-Pot Meal, Oven Bake, Heart Healthy, High Fiber Kosher, Low Fat, No Eggs, Vegan, Vegetarian, more
"Very low fat and delicious, The only problem about these is trying to stop yourself from eating all of it in one sitting! Can add in some peanut butter for extra flavor"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (97.4 g)
- Calories 139.5
- Total Fat - 3.7 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.4 g
- Cholesterol - 5.4 mg
- Sodium - 228.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 26.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.9 g
- Sugars - 14.6 g
- Protein - 2.6 g
- Calcium - 30.9 mg
- Iron - 0.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.7 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (yes a very low temperture oven) and move rack to second position from the bottom.
Step 2
In a large bowl, combine oatmeal and Kashi cereal. In a smaller bowl, thoroughly combine brown sugar, cocoa powder, and salt. Pour dry ingredients into cereal mixture and stir until all cereal has been mixed with chocolate.
Step 3
In the small bowl, combine maple syrup and vanilla extract. Slowly pour maple syrup over the cereal while stirring. Stir until there is no powdered cocoa left and all cereal is evenly coated with chocolate.
Step 4
Spray a large baking sheet with cooking spray. Spread the granola evenly over the baking sheet and place in the oven. Bake for 1 hour stirring occasionally to evenly bake the granola. .
Step 5
Let the granola cool completely and then store in an airtight jar or container.
Tips
No special items needed.