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Make a batch of this homemade sugar free granola and discover how delicious, crunchy, and healthy this breakfast is! It’s naturally sweetened with mashed banana and dates.
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What is Granola? Granola is a popular crunchy muesli made with rolled oats, nuts, and seeds, which is typically served for breakfast or a snack! It especially delights with its crunchiness and the wonderful toasted flavors and texture that comes from baking it. Check out my basis recipe for a homemade low sugar granola!
Granola is usually sweetened with sugar, honey, agave, or maple syrup. However, this healthy granola recipe is made without the added sugar! For sweetening, one banana and two dates are used. The fructose gives the granola a little more flavor.
In addition, a good portion of nuts, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds is added. If you like, mix in a handful of coconut chips.
Serve this homemade sugar-free granola with dairy-free yogurt and fresh fruits. Your kids will love this healthy, protein-rich breakfast with valuable fatty acids and vitamins. It’s also incredibly delicious as a topping for fresh fruit, bircher muesli, or crunchy cereal with oat milk.
Make sure to prepare a large batch of it, it will be gone rather quickly!
If you have to avoid sugar completely, including fructose, due to a diet or illness, you can prepare the granola muesli without the mashed banana and dates. If you still want to sweeten it, add some sweetener (e.g. monk, fruit, erythritol, stevia).
Be aware that store-bought granola often contains high amounts of sugar to make it taste better. Therefore, I recommend making this homemade granola recipe, which is the healthier option for you. Plus, if you mix it with Greek yogurt or fruits, it will be sweet enough.
🛒 Ingredients
See recipe card for quantities.
- Rolled Oats → Use whole grain oats or five grain flakes cereal(sugar-free) to add even more nutrients to this healthy granola.
- Nut Mix → Feel free to use your favorite nuts! I like the combination of hazelnuts, almonds, and pecans.
- Pumpkin Seeds→ Taste spicy and have a particularly high protein content.
- Sunflower Seeds → Provide valuable protein, fiber, minerals, healthy fats (omega-6 and omega-3), and vitamins B and E.
- Coconut Chips → For coconut lovers! Use unsweetened coconut chips.
- Sea Salt → Just a pinch for flavor.
- Ripe Banana & Dates → To naturally sweeten the granola with fruit sugar.
- Ground Cinnamon & Ginger → Provide a great flavor.
- Nut Butter → Use almond, cashew, or peanut butter (whatever you have at home). The recipe also works without nut butter.
- Coconut Oil → Use neutral coconut oil, otherwise, the whole granola tastes like coconut. Also works with extra virgin olive oil.
- Vanilla Extract→ Or the pulp of a scraped vanilla bean.
🍶 Variations
Want to customize this sugar free granola recipe? Then you’ll find plenty of ways to do so:
- Nuts – Mix in pistachios, walnuts, macadamia, peanuts, or cashews.
- Seeds – Add flax seeds, sesame seeds, or chia seeds.
- Dried Fruits – Add coarsely chopped dried fruit such as apricots, raisins, cranberries, or banana chips to your granola after baking.
- Chocolate Lovers – Stir in cocoa nibs or dark chocolate chips one cold (do not bake them).
- Gluten-Free – Use certified gluten-free oats.
👩🍳 Visual Step-by-Step Instructions
This visual step-by-step instruction will help you along the way – definitely recommended if you’re a cooking beginner! → Watch the recipe video to see how easy it is to make at home! 🤓
- Preheat oven to 355°F (180°C).
- Mash banana with a fork. Pit and finely chop dates. → If the dates are too hard, you can soak them in hot water for 10 minutes.
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, warm the mashed banana, dates, dairy-free milk, nut butter, coconut oil, vanilla extract, cinnamon, ginger, and salt. Stir until well combined.
- In a large bowl, combine oats, nuts, seeds, and coconut chips. Stir in the warm banana-date mixture.
- Spread granola on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake for 25 minutes until golden brown, turning once!
- Remove the baking sheet from the oven and let the granola cool completely. Store in a mason jar!
🫙 Storage Instructions
Granola can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for at least 2 weeks.
It also makes a great gift from the kitchen. Therefore, place it in a beautiful mason jar and stick a handwritten label on it!
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📖 Recipe
Sugar Free Granola
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Ingredients
- 1 ripe banana smashed with a fork
- 2 dates pitted & chopped
- ¼ cup (60 ml) dairy-free milk
- 2 tbsp nut butter of choice (almond, cashew, or peanut butter)
- 2 tbsp coconut oil or olive oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ground ginger
- a pinch salt
- 1 ⅛ cup (100 g) rolled oats
- ⅔ cup (100 g) mixed nuts roughly chopped
- ⅓ cup (40 g) pumpkin seeds
- ⅓ cup (40 g) sunflower seeds
- ½ cup (20 g) coconut chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 355°F (180°C).
- Mash banana with a fork. Pit and finely chop dates. → If the dates are too hard, you can soak them in hot water for 10 minutes.
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, warm the mashed banana, dates, dairy-free milk, nut butter, coconut oil, vanilla extract, cinnamon, ginger, and salt. Stir until well combined.
- In a large bowl, combine oats, nuts, seeds, and coconut chips. Stir in the warm banana-date mixture.
- Spread granola on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake for 25 minutes until golden brown, turning once!
- Remove the baking sheet from the oven and let the granola cool completely. Store in a mason jar!
