Now is the opportunity to make use of all those dried fruits and nuts lurking at the back of your cupboards in order to create a delicious home made cereal.
INGREDIENTS
- 180gms hard pears & eating apples, diced into small cubes.
- 2 tsp of 2 of your favourite spices, ginger/cinnamon/nutmeg
- 50gms shelled hazelnuts
- 50gms flaked almonds
- 200gms rolled oats
- 30gms light soft brown sugar
- 40gms sultanas
- 2 Tbsp coconut oil
- 3 Tbsp honey
- 80gms Bramley apple unsweetened sauce
- Pinch of salt.
Method
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Don’t feel obliged to use a mix of apples and pears, the recipe works just as well with only one of the fruits.
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Peel apples & pears, cut into ½ cm slices, andthen into cubes. If you are worried about getting the cubes small enough, then use a coarse grater instead. Put into a bowl and sprinkle with the spices, mix, until the fruit is covered.
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Put the hazelnuts in a bag and give a gentle bash with a rolling pin, you don’t want them crushed, but not all whole.
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Add nuts, oats sugar & salt to fruit.
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Measure on the coconut oil, honey and apple sauce, give the mix a good stir, to coat as much of the dry ingredients with the wet.
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Tip into a deep roasting pan, then place on the middle shelf of the oven at 160 degrees.
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After 15 minutes remove and stir thoroughly, return to the oven for a further 15 minutes.
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Remove from the oven, and turn the oven up to 180 degrees. Stir again thoroughly, the mix should still look quite pale.
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Return to the top shelf of the oven for another 15 minutes, remove every 5 minutes and give a good stir. The mix will quickly colour.
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When the nuts have toasted, the oats are a golden colour and the steam has gone remove and leave to cool.
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Once cold, store in an air tight container where it will keep for 2-3 weeks.
