Granola

Ingredients


4 cups old fashioned oats
3/4 cups slivered almonds (optional)
3/4 to 1 cup dried cranberries (optional)

3/4 cups honey
1/3 cup oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 ripe banana (optional)

Preheat oven to 300 degrees

Mix oats, almonds and cranberries in a large mixing bowl.

In a separate smaller bowl, mix together honey, oil, vanilla and cinnamon. Stir until mixed. Add and mash banana into the wet mixture.

Pour 1/4 of the wet mixture over the oats mixture, and stir until evenly coated. Add 1/4 more, coat evenly, and repeat until wet mixture has evenly coated the oats.

Spread mixture evenly over a greased cookie sheet. Bake in oven for 35 minutes (for mixture without banana) to 40/45 minutes (for mixture with banana), rotating tray every 10 minutes.

Remove from oven (granola will be soft), and let cool on the pan for 10 minutes. Use a spatula to remove granola from the sheet and store in air tight container in the fridge.

Granola pictured is made with almonds and banana.