Broken Oven Granola

I eat granola every morning, with yogurt, fruit and tea. That is my very best yummy breakfast. Ok, except for the Character Breakfast at Disneyland. But, other than that, granola, yogurt, fruit and tea does it for me.

Last Friday evening, as I was preparing to put a lovely pizza in the oven, the oven quit working. OH NO! (you do not want to know what happened to the pizza..... we ate melted cheese and veggies for dinner that night.) Anyway, a broken oven and here I was almost out of granola. What to do? I decided to venture into the great unknown, and make granola in my crock pot!

I made my granola the way I always do. (you will find the recipe at the bottom of this post.) The recipe is one I have crafted over the years. If I do not have one of the grains, I just toss in a different one. Really, almost anything will work as long as your base is at least 2 cups of rolled oats.

First mix the dry ingredients together.

Rolled oats, and steel cut oats.

Add in the brown sugar, coconut, wheat bran, sunflower seeds, and nuts.

I chop the nuts coarsely. I like pecans the best.

Mix this all together.

Mix the final ingredients in another bowl.

Mixing the oil, water, cinnamon, salt and vanilla.

Mix the two bowls together.

Now this is when I would put the whole thing in a roasting pan, and put it in the oven at 300 degrees, for an hour, stirring every 15 minutes. But, my oven was not working... so...

I put this all in the crock pot on high. I oiled the crock pot first, although I still had a bit of burning on the corners when I was done.

I cooked it for 2 hours, stirring every 20 to 30 minutes. Turned out great!

I keep mine in a big jar in the fridge, and eat about 1/3 cup every morning. Those dark spots are not raisins, but the nuts that got a bit roasted. If you do want to add raisins, I would do it at the end. If you add them before you cook the granola, they get all hard and dry.

BREAKFAST TIME!!