Molasses Maple Granola - Big Batch! (can Be Reduced!)

Total Time: 2 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 90
• 13 cups thick old fashioned oats, not quick oats
• 3 cups walnuts, chopped
• 3 cups pecans, chopped
• 3 cups pumpkin seeds
• 3 cups unsweetened dried shredded coconut
• 1 cup flax seed
• 2 cups unsulfured blackstrap molasses
• 1 1/2 cups maple syrup
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup vanilla
• 1/2 cup peanut oil
• 1/4 cup water
• 2 tablespoons cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 3 cups dried fruit, your choice

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl, mix oats, flax, nuts & coconut.
• 2 in a second bowl, mix all wet ingredients, including cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar & salt. mix until blended with spatula or wooden spoon.
• 3 pour wet onto dry and stir thoroughly. stir, stir & stir.
• 4 preheat oven to 300 degrees f.
• 5 line cookie sheets (the sided kind) with aluminum foil & layer granola onto prepared sheets about 1/2 inch thick. multiple sheets allow cooking to go faster.
• 6 toast 30 minutes, stirring once.
• 7 remove from oven & cool (i use another cookie sheet & put 1/2 of toasted mix on it to speed cooling.
• 8 repeat until granola all toasted.
• 9 when cooled, return to original big mixing bowl & add dried fruit of choice & mix thoroughly. alternatively, leave fruit out & add at serving time (harder for me to remember).
• 10 bag in amounts that are workable for you & freeze until used. may recrisp 5 minutes in 300 degree oven if it softens with storage.