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Grain-Free Soaked Maple-Nut Granola

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Do you like granola but find many store-bought (and even homemade) varieties include ingredients you’d rather avoid? If so, I think you’ll enjoy this soaked maple-nut granola. It’s grain-free, uses nourishing ingredients, is packed with nuts, and is bursting with flavor. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Do you like granola but find many store-bought (and even homemade) varieties include ingredients you’d rather avoid?

If so, I think you’ll enjoy this soaked maple-nut granola. It’s grain free, uses nourishing ingredients, is packed with nuts, and is bursting with flavor.

Why Soaked?

Nuts contain enzyme inhibitors, which make it difficult to digest them or absorb the nutrients contained within. So, it’s important to soak them before use. The soaking helps activate the nut and removes the enzyme inhibitors, making them easier to digest and more nutritious. So, don’t skip this step.

Soaking nuts does require some time, but very little effort. Simply pour water over the nuts, add salt, and leave overnight (further directions are included below).

This granola is an excellent gluten-free or grain-free treat, and can be used as a breakfast cereal option or topping over yogurt (or any other way you would use granola). Dried fruit, berries, or raisins can be added at the very end, if you desire. Use honey, and less of it, to make it GAPS-friendly.

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Soaked Maple-Nut Granola

Yields 8 cups (approx.) granola. Adapted from Against All Grain.

Course Breakfast, Snacks
Author Stacy Karen

Ingredients

  • 2 cups raw almonds
  • 2 cups raw walnuts
  • 1 cup raw pecans
  • 1 cup raw cashews
  • 3-1/2 teaspoons sea salt
  • 1-1/3 cup maple syrup
  • 1/4 cup coconut oil melted
  • 3 tablespoons vanilla extract
  • 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
  • 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut

Instructions

  1. Place all nuts in a large bowl or jar.
  2. Pour clean water over the nuts until they are well covered (at least an inch of water above the nuts).
  3. Add 2 teaspoons of the salt and gently stir to combine.
  4. Cover and let sit for about 24 hours.
  5. Pour the nuts into a colander and drain out the water.
  6. Rinse briefly.
  7. Place nuts on a kitchen towel and cover with a second towel.
  8. Press gently to absorb as much water as possible.
  9. Place half the nuts in a food processor and pulse until the nuts are fairly small (about the size of oats).
  10. Pour into a large bowl and add the rest of the nuts to the food processor and pulse until the nuts are small.
  11. Add these nuts to the large bowl with the others.
  12. Add the maple syrup, coconut oil, cinnamon, vanilla, and remaining 1-1/2 teaspoon salt to the nuts and stir to combine. Stir in the coconut until evenly distributed.
  13. Spread granola over dehydrator trays lined with drying sheets or parchment paper.
  14. Turn dehydrator to 120 degrees Fahrenheit and leave for 24 hours.
  15. Turn off the dehydrator and allow granola to cool before placing in an airtight container for storage.
  16. Granola will crisp further as it cools.

Recipe Notes

Don't have a dehydrator? Use the oven.

A dehydrator will make a superior granola since the lower temperature allows the nuts to maintain much of their nutritional value.
Heating in the oven will destroy some of the nutrients, but it is still a method you can use if you don't currently own a dehydrator (although I highly recommend you try to get one in the future. They are so useful!).

To dry in the oven, preheat to 170 degrees Fahrenheit.
Place granola on trays lined with parchment paper.
Make sure the granola is in a thin layer and not piled high.
Put trays in oven and leave the oven door propped open a crack to let the moisture out.
Bake for 2 hours, then stir with a wooden spoon and bake for another hour.
Turn the oven off and close the door all the way.
Let dry for one more hour.

Do you like granola? What is your favorite flavor? Favorite ingredients? Favorite recipe? Feel free to share links!

Interested in more help with grain-free or other allergen-free cooking? Check out our Allergy-Free Cooking eCourse.

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About Stacy Karen

Stacy is a Holistic Health Practitioner on a mission to simplify health and wellness. She used real food to overcome autoimmune disease and believes food has the power to energize, heal, and soothe. Born and raised in Australia, Stacy now calls Missouri home (where she lives with her husband and three children). Interested in all areas of natural living, Stacy loves creating home remedies and natural body care products. She is the founder of the Natural Body Care Club, a fun community focused on learning how to make natural products. Find her blogging at No Fuss Natural and sharing quick and easy DIYs on Instagram.

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  1. Guro says

    October 3, 2013 at 9:40 am

    This looks yummy- been a long time since I made granola so this recipt just made me want to make a batch šŸ™‚ Do you store this in the refrigerator and can it also be stored in the freezer if you make a large batch that will not be eaten up too quickly as nuts seem to go rancid quickly?

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  2. Trish says

    October 11, 2013 at 9:28 am

    Hi,
    This recipe sounds wonderful. In fact I have most of the raw nuts soaking now. My comment is that I have heard from a number of sources that raw cashews should NOT be soaked for longer than 6 hours. If they are, they get slimy. I can vouch for this because I had soaked them for longer thinking that I was doing great and my cashews were so slimy that I had to discard them. This recipe calls for all nuts (including the cashews) to be soaked for 24 hours. Did you really mean ALL nuts should be soaked for 24 hours??

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  3. Trish says

    October 13, 2013 at 2:12 pm

    I just got through making this recipe. It was by far the MOST delicious granola I have ever tasted!!! Wow!!! I won’t be able to make this a lot because I could set down and eat the whole batch of it.

    I did only soak my cashews for only 4 hours. This recipes was easy to make and so-o-o-o very yummy.

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  4. Denise says

    May 8, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    Can I add oatmeal to this? Thanks!

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  5. Melissa says

    May 27, 2014 at 10:00 am

    I’m going too-it’s not a granola without oats šŸ™‚

    I love nuts, love eating healthy; but some of these “healthy” recipes bother me because they can’t even be ranked amongst ‘fakeout’ foods. It won’t taste anywhere NEAR the real food because one or all of the core ingredients are removed.

    Oats are high in fiber, B vitamins, as well as a host of other benefits. A little bit in your diet is healthy, n
    ot this villified food that it’s weirdly become! Lol

    Happy granola making ?

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  6. tracie says

    December 19, 2019 at 12:19 pm

    I have read your link on soaking and drying nuts and you recommend 100 degrees in an oven. Here you recommend 170 degrees for a series of hours but not 24 like in the dehydrator. If my oven is a convection oven and I can set the temp at 100, would you recommend I do this for the granola and heat for 24 hours? Or still follow the recommendations in your recipe above. Thanks so much!

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