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Gluten Free Quinoa Granola with Dried Cranberries and Apricots

February 27, 2013 by lauren.kelly 19 Comments

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Raise your hand if you love granola! Many of packaged granolas in the grocery stores are filled with added fats, preservatives and chemicals. Make your own and you are in control of the ingredients.
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Gluten Free Quinoa Granola with Dried Cranberries

Quinoa, Granola, Gluten-free, Wheat-free, The everything wheat-free diet cookbook

Ingredients

  • 1 cup organic whole rolled oats
  • 1 cup buckwheat groats
  • 1/3 cup uncooked quinoa
  • 2 T ground chia seeds
  • 3/4 cup raw chopped almonds
  • 1/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds
  • 1/4 cup raw sunflower seeds
  • 1/4 cup raw chopped walnuts
  • 2 tablespoons shredded unsweetened coconut
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/3 cup unsweetened dried cranberries or other unsweetened fruit of your choice or even mini chocolate chips
  • 2 tablespoons chopped unsweetened apricots
  • 1/3 chopped dates
  • 1/2 cup real maple syrup
  • 1/4 cup organic coconut oil melted

Instructions

  1. Mix dry ingredients (first 4 ingredients), then add nuts, seeds and coconut. Mix all together really well adding in the cinnamon.
  2. Mix in maple syrup, melted coconut oil, then dried fruit. Make sure everything is mixed up and coated well.
  3. Spoon and press mixture onto baking sheet lined with wax paper or parchment paper. Bake at 225 degrees for 60 minutes.
  4. Let cool after removing from oven then pull corners of wax paper together to crumble granola.

I suggest putting in individual serving size baggies because this granola is ADDICTIVE! My kids love it too.  I keep in the car, my bag and everywhere!  And there’s quinoa in there, so it’s healthy!

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You can add whatever nuts and dried fruits that you’d like.  I probably make this weekly and I try to mix it up ever time.  Plus, it tastes different each time so the kids won’t get bored.
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I love it in my Greek yogurt, with almond milk or just to snack on.  This is just one of the recipes from my new cookbook, The Everything Wheat-Free Diet Cookbook sold at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and all major book stores.  Go pick up your coy today!  Thank you for all of your support!

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Gluten Free Quinoa Granola with Dried Cranberries

Quinoa, Granola, Gluten-free, Wheat-free, The everything wheat-free diet cookbook

Ingredients

  • 1 cup organic whole rolled oats
  • 1 cup buckwheat groats
  • 1/3 cup uncooked quinoa
  • 2 T ground chia seeds
  • 3/4 cup raw chopped almonds
  • 1/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds
  • 1/4 cup raw sunflower seeds
  • 1/4 cup raw chopped walnuts
  • 2 tablespoons shredded unsweetened coconut
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/3 cup unsweetened dried cranberries or other unsweetened fruit of your choice or even mini chocolate chips
  • 2 tablespoons chopped unsweetened apricots
  • 1/3 chopped dates
  • 1/2 cup real maple syrup
  • 1/4 cup organic coconut oil melted

Instructions

  1. Mix dry ingredients (first 4 ingredients), then add nuts, seeds and coconut. Mix all together really well adding in the cinnamon.
  2. Mix in maple syrup, melted coconut oil, then dried fruit. Make sure everything is mixed up and coated well.
  3. Spoon and press mixture onto baking sheet lined with wax paper or parchment paper. Bake at 225 degrees for 60 minutes.
  4. Let cool after removing from oven then pull corners of wax paper together to crumble granola.

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Comments

  1. Allly says

    February 27, 2013 at 11:07 pm

    Love this, Lauren! Making!! Just tweeted and Google+’d, too! xo

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  2. lauren.kelly says

    February 27, 2013 at 11:23 pm

    Thanks so much sweet Ally 🙂

    Reply
  3. Ann from Sumptuous Spoonfuls says

    March 2, 2013 at 1:50 am

    Lauren I love this! Your photos look so good too … I pinned it for the next granola making round, which has got to happen this weekend because I need something to stir into my yogurt next week at work!

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    • lauren.kelly says

      March 2, 2013 at 1:53 am

      Thanks so much Ann!! It’s one if my favorites! XOXO

      Reply
  4. Leigh Ann says

    April 27, 2013 at 9:53 pm

    Looks good, but I don’t see an amount for chocolate chips?

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  5. lauren.kelly says

    April 27, 2013 at 11:22 pm

    Hi leigh Ann! You can use chocolate chips in place of the dried fruit so it would be 1/3 cup. Thanks so much!

    Reply
  6. Wendy says

    January 24, 2014 at 12:25 am

    Does the quinoa have to be cooked first or us it dry?

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    • lauren says

      January 24, 2014 at 12:34 am

      That’s the beauty of this, the quinoa is uncooked Wendy. Hope you like it!

      Reply
  7. Laurie says

    June 3, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    Do you put your dried fruit in the mixture before it goes in the oven? I did that once on accident and the fruit came out rock hard. I was wondering if you don’t have that problem with this particular recipe.

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    • lauren.kelly says

      June 3, 2014 at 1:25 pm

      Hi Laurie! Yes, I mix everything together and place it in the oven. It comes out great. Maybe you baked it at a higher temperature before? I hope you like it!

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      • Laurie says

        June 3, 2014 at 11:54 pm

        I just looked and your temp is lower! :/ my bad! lol I’ll give it a try

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        • lauren.kelly says

          June 13, 2014 at 1:18 am

          No problem Laurie! Let me know how it comes out! 🙂

          Reply
  8. Kitty says

    March 11, 2015 at 7:13 am

    if I don’t use buckwheat groat, what can I replace it with? The temperature used is F, not C, am I correct?

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    • lauren.kelly says

      March 11, 2015 at 11:45 am

      Hello Kitty! Yes I mean t F not C, thank you 🙂 As for substituting buckwheat groats, you can easily use another grain or nut if you’d like. Thanks for stopping by!

      Reply

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