This easy grain free granola recipe is delicious and addictive! With natural sweeteners, this homemade granola is the perfect breakfast recipe!

We’ve been making homemade granola at our house for many years. My kids love it when I pull a pan of granola out of the oven.

They love it for a snack as well as a healthy breakfast!

For the past several years we’ve been branching out and trying new recipes without grains. We were thrilled that you can make delicious granola without the oats.

Grain Free Granola

This easy granola recipe features so many healthy and delicious ingredients.

It’s filled with a variety of nuts, coconut flakes, chia seeds, coconut oil, and sweetened with honey or maple syrup.

You can also add optional dried fruit or chocolate chips.

It tastes delicious when eaten as a traditional granola, with milk or nut milk poured over it (we usually use almond milk).

Or, you can also use it as a delicious topper for your yogurt. It’s a very versatile recipe to have on-hand!

Grain Free Granola Recipe

Here’s our favorite grain free granola recipe ever! It’s easy to make and very forgiving.

As I mentioned above, this is a very versatile and easy homemade granola recipe.

If you don’t have some of the ingredients listed above, it’s pretty simple to make substitutions.

For example, you can use any combination of nuts and seeds that you have on-hand.

You can use a combination of honey and maple syrup.

If you don’t have shredded coconut, you can just add more coconut flakes and it will turn out fine.

There are a number of add-in options you can try: chocolate chips, other flavors of chips, or lots of different dried fruits.

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Ingredients

5 cups assorted nuts (almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts, pecans, and cashews all work)
1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
1/2 cup honey or maple syrup
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
1/4 cup chia seeds
3/4 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
1 cup unsweetened coconut, shredded
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon cinnamon

Optional Add-Ins:

1/2 cup dried fruit (cherries, blueberries, raisins, apricots, mangoes, etc.)
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 300° F.

2. Chop nuts coarsely by hand or in a food processor (I prefer to use the food processor, pulsing a few times to chop the nuts into pieces).

3. Combine coconut oil and honey in a small saucepan and heat gently on low until melted. Stir to combine. Add the vanilla extract.

4. In a large mixing bowl, combine the chopped nuts, sunflower and chia seeds…

and the coconut flakes and shredded coconut, salt, and cinnamon. Stir well to combine.

5. Pour melted coconut oil and honey mixture over dry ingredients and mix well.

6. Spread out on two baking sheets in thin layers (one layer on each sheet).

7. Bake at 300° for about 30-45 minutes, or until lightly browned, stirring halfway through.

8. Remove from the oven and stir in dried fruit, if using.

9. Let cool for 15 minutes before serving.

10. Add chocolate chips (if using) right before serving or after granola has cooled completely.

11. Store completely cooled granola in an air-tight container for 1-2 weeks at room temperature (or longer, if refrigerated).

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