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Nut pulp Granola with Liquorice & Cinnamon

For security purposes, I like to keep a jar of liquorice granola in my cupboard at all times. I’m a better human being when my belly is busy.

The older I get, the more I need my food to fill an emotional crypt too. I get a better burn from lovingly crafted granola than the store-bought stuff. I get a theatrical high knowing my corner café hand-roasts their coffee beans to Shostakovich. Or that my breakfast eggs are served with a wave from the chef. It’s the love and adoration bestowed upon ingredients that really grips me, and makes me want to purr like a homeless kitten at a stranger’s leg.

Food is more than substance. It’s more than fuel. There’s no love in highly processed food – it’s just conveyor belt crap and cannot service you physically or emotionally. Not the way this granola can.

As promised to so many readers, I finally found a worthy way of re-purposing nutpulp, left over from making your very own mylk (inspired by Jodi here). Namaste.

 

 

Nut pulp Granola with Liquorice & Cinnamon

Serves 12-16

 

1/2 cup (125ml) virgin coconut oil

1/2 cup (125ml) good honey or rice malt

1 teaspoon flaky sea salt (sounds a lot, but it reaches 16 portions)

2 cups (300g) nut pulp, left over from making nut milk (or use ground almonds)

3 cups (270g) jumbo oats

5 teabags sweet chai or other caffeine-free tea blend, torn open

 

 

1 Fire up your oven to 160 C. Line your largest tray, or 2 smaller ones, with parchment paper.

2 In a big saucepan, gently melt your coconut oil, the honey and decent smattering of salt. You want them to smooch each other, not violently grumble. Parachute the remaining ingredients into the pan, turn off the heat, and thoroughly coat.

3 Spoon onto your prepared tray and bake for 30 minutes. This recipe requires longer cooking time than regular granola, because the wet nut pulp needs to dry in the oven. If it’s not dry, it won’t store well. Don’t be tempted to crank up the heat – this will only burn the oats.

4 Toss the granola tray twice, while baking, to prevent browning edges.

5 Remove from the oven once cooked. Clouds of warm-scented liquorice and honey will waft through your house, reminding you (and the apartment block) of your culinary wizardry.

Can be stored for up to 3 weeks in a tightly sealed jar, sprinkled over despondent salads or languorous mornings. I added some sprouted buckwheat and cacao nibs a week later, to change it up a little (see photo).

 

 

Taking the hell out of healthy.

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7 Comments

  • Reply Sarah September 1, 2017 at 10:26 am

    Susan sorry there doesn’t seem to be any cinnamon or liquorice in this. Are they missing from the ingredients/instructions?

    • Reply Susan Jane September 2, 2017 at 10:07 am

      Hi Sarah. Nope – it’s in the chai mix 😉 You can buy a stright-up liq & cinnamon chai teabag from Pukka too. Enjoy! It’s crazyass beautiful

    • Reply CORA COSGRAVE September 4, 2017 at 10:42 pm

      Thanks for clarification. I also wondered about the cinnamon & liquorice ?

  • Reply Laurie L. December 1, 2017 at 4:36 am

    Hello Susan,
       I thought that almond pulp doesn’t have much nutrition left in it after making almond mylk because most of the nutrition in the almonds is passed into the mylk.  Please let me know your thoughts.

    • Reply Susan Jane December 6, 2017 at 2:32 pm

      Yes indeed – but there’s lots of fibre that remains, so in times of tight budgets, I use it to bulk out my granola instead of purchasing ground almonds 😉

      • Reply Laurie L. December 20, 2017 at 12:09 pm

        Great idea! 

        Also, I made a half batch a couple of weeks ago as a trial run and found I wolfed it down and my toddler liked it.  So, I just made a full batch because its texture and aroma is irresistible. 

        By the way, I measure it out after baking it and it came to 7.5 cups.

        • Reply Susan Jane December 29, 2017 at 8:43 pm

          Amazing! I’m flirting with different nut pulps, but the hazelnuts are just ace. Hope you find a great Pukka tea to rock your 2018 granola!

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