This homemade banana nut granola is crunchy, naturally sweet, and perfect for a healthy everyday breakfast. It's made without refined sugar and gets all its sweetness from ripe banana and dates - simple ingredients, big flavor.
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 basic recipe for a homemade low sugar granola!
Most granola recipes are sweetened with sugar, honey, or syrups. This version is different: it's naturally sweetened with banana and dates, without any added sugar. Since store-bought granola often contains surprisingly high amounts of sugar, making it at home is a much healthier choice - especially when paired with yogurt or fresh fruit.
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Ingredients
- 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.
See recipe card for quantities.
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.
How To Make
- 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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Banana Nut Granola (Sugar Free)
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Ingredients
- 1 ripe banana, smashed with a fork
- 2 dates, pitted & chopped
- ¼ cup dairy-free milk
- 2 tablespoon nut butter, of choice (almond, cashew, or peanut butter)
- 2 tablespoon coconut oil, or olive oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- a pinch salt
- 1 ⅛ cup rolled oats
- ⅔ cup mixed nuts, roughly chopped
- ⅓ cup pumpkin seeds
- ⅓ cup sunflower seeds
- ½ cup 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!
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