When I don’t feel like making a smoothie, granola with fruit and yoghurt is my go to breakfast. It’s quick to prepare, nutritious and delicious. This simple recipe for easy vegan honey almond granola uses vegan honey as the backdrop sweetener. You can, of course, easily switch this for normal honey if you’re not a vegan.
Easy Vegan Honey Almond Granola
I can sometimes be guilty of adding too many weird and wonderful ingredients to my recipes, so I tried to make this easy vegan honey almond granola as simple as possible. I wanted the honey and almonds to be the stars of the show with the other ingredients adding a little bit of extra interest and nutrition. It has only ten ingredients, which really isn’t that many for a granola recipe and you could easily leave out or replace some of them.
Dried Fruit
You don’t need to add fruit to make a tasty granola, but a few dried berries create flavoursome bursts of additional sweetness as well as tartness. Blueberries, barberries and goji berries are all particularly nutritious fruit, so I do like to add a few for that reason too. I usually add dried fruit after the granola has been baked. However, occasionally I like to ring the changes and bake the fruit mixed in with the other ingredients. It gives the fruit a chewy and slightly caramelised flavour.
Seeds
There are any number of seeds that can be added to granola, but I opted for chia and pumpkin. Chia seeds are packed with protein and other good things and I like to get plenty of pumpkin seeds into my diet. They contain tyrosine and zinc which are said to be good for thyroid function and I’ve always been a bit suspicious that I have a slightly underactive thyroid.
Vegan Honey
You can now buy vegan honey I believe, but I used my own homemade dandelion honey. It’s surprisingly easy to make if you have access to lots of dandelion flowers in the spring. Make sure they haven’t been sprayed with any chemicals. It looks and tastes just like runny honey. Another alternative I sometimes use is my homemade quince jelly. It doesn’t taste like honey, but it is delicious and gives a nice fruity note to the granola.
This quantity of my easy vegan honey almond granola makes enough to fill a 1 litre sized jar and provides about 14 servings, depending on how much you feel is a reasonable portion.
I usually just bung some granola in a bowl and add fruit and yoghurt, but at the weekend or for special occasions, it’s much nicer layered in a glass like this raspberry granola parfait.
Wake Up To Organic
This is not a sponsored post, but as it happens, today marks the Soil Association campaign, #WakeUpToOrganic. Like most people, I can’t afford to buy everything I’d really like to, but I do try to buy as much organic produce as I can. I feel organic farming is the only way to go to keep us and our planet healthy. When it comes to breakfast, I feel it’s particularly important.
So I make sure we Wake Up To Organic by having a kefir smoothie made with organic milk, homemade bread made with organic flour or granola made with mostly organic ingredients such as this easy vegan honey almond granola.
I buy a few staples in bulk to reduce the cost, but we don’t have a great deal of space for storage, so I limit this to things like oats, rice and quinoa. Suma Wholefoods is a good place to buy bulk items (although there is a minimum spend). They offer a wide range of organic products, as well as non-organic, in varying size packs which can be found online, in whole food or health food shops and various independent retailers.
Most of the ingredients for my easy vegan honey almond granola came from Suma. There’s enough there to make quite a few batches.
Other Granola Recipes You Might Like
- Chocolate granola via Tin and Thyme
- Gorgeous gluten free granola via Tin and Thyme
- Mango pina colada healthy granola recipe via Eats Amazing
- Nut free granola with coconut, cherry and sunflower seed via Sneaky Veg
- Road trip granola (video) via The Hedgecombers
- Slow cooker low carb granola via Recipes From a Pantry
If you’re looking for other breakfast ideas, I have several vegan and vegetarian recipes in my breakfast category. All delicious, of course.
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Easy Vegan Honey Almond Granola. PIN IT.
Easy Vegan Honey Almond Granola – The Recipe
Easy Vegan Honey & Almond Granola
Ingredients
- 80 g coconut oil
- 6 tbsp vegan honey – can swap for ordinary honey
- 400 g jumbo oats
- 25 g chia seeds
- 50 g pumpkin seeds
- 25 g coconut chips
- 100 g whole almonds – roughly chopped
- 25 g dried blueberries
- 25 g goji berries
- 10 g barberries
Instructions
- Turn the oven on to 180℃ (160℃ fan, 350℉, gas mark 4)
- Gently heat the coconut oil and honey in a pan until the oil is melted. Stir.
- Place the remaining ingredients (except for the fruit – see note) in a large bowl and stir.
- Pour in the oil & honey mixture and stir until everything’s well combined.
- Turn out onto an oven tray (or two, depending on how large they are). Bake for 20 mins, stirring half way through, until the oats and almonds are golden.
Notes
Nutrition Estimate
Suma Blogger’s Network & More
This recipe for easy vegan honey almond granola is my fourteenth for the Suma Blogger’s Network.
It also goes to #CookBlogShare which is hosted this week by Recipes Made Easy.
And I’m also sharing this easy vegan honey almond granola with Searching for Spice for #CookOnceEatTwice.
Most of the ingredients for this recipe were provided by Suma Wholefoods. I was not expected to write a positive review and all opinions are, as always, my own. Thanks to my readers for supporting the brands and organisations that help to keep Tin and Thyme blithe and blogging.
Jasmin | VeeatCookBake says
Wow your granola sounds delish. Granola or/ and cereals in general are our go to breakfast on busy days.
Choclette says
Thanks Jasmin. Granola is brilliant for a fast but healthy start to the day.
Janice says
Gosh it’s far too long since I made my own granola, this looks so delicious.
Choclette says
I know what you mean. I go for long periods when I never make it. When I do, it’s so quick, easy and delicious I don’t understand why I don’t make it all the time.
Lesley Smith says
I have the underactive thyroid so always looking for suitable food. Love this.
Choclette says
Thanks Lesley. Pumpkin seeds are ace. I add them to my bread, so I get a few more there too. But I also buy pumpkin seed butter and have that slathered on toast. It took a while to get used to it, but I really like it now.
Jacqueline Meldrum says
I am always up for anything oaty Choclette. I’ve never heard of vegan honey before.
Choclette says
I’m not sure exactly what vegan honey is, but I’ve seen it for sale. The dandelion honey I make is really easy – apart from picking all those dandelion flowers that is!
Nico @ yumsome says
Y’know, I had never in my life tried granola until I lived in Thailand! (Same goes for brownies.) We had a really cool shop at the end of our soi, which sold a lot of locally-made foods, including granola and peanut butter (which was the best I’ve ever bought). I loved the granola from the start! Breakfast (not necessarily eaten in the morning, heheh) was locally-made coconut yoghurt, some fresh fruit from the auntie who had a cart in our condo car park, and a few tablespoons of granola. So perfect!
I make my own now. Since being back in Europe, I’ve tried store-bought but actually, it’s far more cost-effective to make it yourself, isn’t it? And tastier too.
I make apple ‘honey’ – I keep missing the dandelions! – but I sometimes use my miso caramel sauce instead. Both work really, really well!
Choclette says
Only you could first try such American staples as brownies and granola for the first time in Thailand. It all sounds so perfect. So is your apple honey, made with apple blossom? It sounds really good, but I’ve no idea how you’d go about collecting the blossom.
Nico @ yumsome says
You’d think I’d have tried them when I was in California, wouldn’t you?! Ha ha!
No, I make the honey from apple juice – far easier than collecting armfuls of blossoms, especially since I have an excellent juicer at work! 😉 xx
Choclette says
Hmmm, interesting. How do you get the honey flavour from apple juice?
jacqui Bellefontaine says
Homemade granola taste so much better than the stuff you buy. Thank you for linking to #CookBlogShare
Choclette says
Yes it does and you can put into it exactly what you want.
Kate - Gluten Free Alchemist says
You could never be accused of using ‘too many weird and wonderful ingredients’ Choclette. I love that you introduce us to so many flavours, alternative and ‘weird and wonderful ingredients’. I had never heard of Dandelion honey though… Interesting! x
Choclette says
Oh bless you. I shall go back to using my weird and wonderful immediately 😀
Corina Blum says
This granola sounds delicious and it’s so good to make your own. I’ve only ever made it a couple of times but it’s definitely worth it. So easy and satisfying to have exactly what you want in it. Thanks for sharing with #CookOnceEatTwice!
Choclette says
Yes, it really is easy, yet I don’t make it as often as I should either. I’ve even been known, on occasion, to buy some – shhhh!
Camilla Hawkins says
This look yummy! I keep saying I’m going to make granola so really ought to get on with it!
Choclette says
Camilla, I can’t believe you’ve not made granola before. You’ve made just about everything else 🙂
johanna @ green gourmet giraffe says
Sounds really lovely – you are amazing how you make so much from-scratch ingredients such as dandelion honey – and granola is so nice when home made – I have been out of the habit and really need to change that.
Choclette says
I have bouts of making things from scratch, but don’t manage it all the time by any means. I made quite a bit of dandelion honey one year and it keeps remarkably well in the fridge.
Ceri Jones says
What’s vegan honey? Sounds like a greta way to adapt this recipe for vegans. Love all the additions of seeds too!
Choclette says
My vegan honey is made from dandelion flowers and sugar. I’m not sure what the commercial stuff is made of, but I have seen it around.
Emma says
Ive been wanting to make my own granola for.a while now. Its just so bloody expensive in the shops!!! I will definitely be trying this this weekend 🙂
Choclette says
It’s ridiculously expensive to buy granola and I often find the bought stuff is too sweet for me anyway.
angiesrecipes says
I love homemade granola. This is a well balanced combo of nuts, seeds, dried fruits and oats.
Choclette says
Thanks Angie. Homemade really is the way to go, but I don’t always manage to make enough and have to head off to the shops.