Laurent Tourondel's Favorite Granola Recipe (2024)

The steel cut oats add a nice crunch. It's very sweet with the maple syrup and honey and takes about 35 minutes to bake, if using whole almonds, in order to toast the nuts. I added a cup of dried sour cherries and toasted sunflower seeds to cut the sugar rush.
For those of you who don't think you like maple syrup, try Grade B not Grade A. It has a completely different and fuller flavor and costs far less. And, yes, if you want to nix the maple syrup, do not double the honey.

I followed this recipe exactly except I only used 1/4 cup of honey and it turned out delicious and not too sweet. I used organic corn flakes that had some cane sugar so it all balanced out in the end. Highly recommend and plan to make this all the time. The orange zest, vanilla, cinnamon combo is really delicious.

2 vanilla beans! Has he considered what a vanilla bean costs these days? You spend $14 on vanilla beans for granola! Get real. paste or extract.

The grading system for maple syrup in the US has changed to match international standards; what was called Grade B is now called Grade A dark color. Essentially, buy now by color, not by grade.

My family likes flaked or shredded coconut added to the granola mix. When available we also add chopped cashews. After baking in the oven, we add raisins or dried cranberries and whole-wheat flakes .

We really liked the orange flavor of this granola. We prefer our granola only moderately sweet, so I cut the honey to about 1/4 of a cup and omitted the maple syrup (even though, unlike some other reviewers, we are big fans of maple syrup). I didn't have corn flakes so substituted a multigrain flake. It was a bit salty, so I will probably cut the salt to 1 tsp next time.

why can you only store for a week? i make granola (oats, almonds, sesame and sunflower, honey (or agave) vanilla and oil) for months in glass jars w rubber seals. and it's delicious month later.

I follow the 6:1 rule - 6 C solids to 1 C liquid - for the liquid try 1/3 C oil, 1/3 C honey and 1/3 C molasses! Can just add 1 tsp of vanilla to the liquids. Also add 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp ginger or cardamon or cinnamon (or any combination of the above. Can also switch out cashew bits for some of the almonds!

I make a batch of this every few weeks — once I came across this recipe I stopped experimenting with others. I think it could be heavy if you were eating it like cereal with milk, but I use it for yogurt parfaits and it goes so well against the tang. I’ll change it up by using rye flakes instead of oats, hazelnuts instead of almonds, etc, and it’s always great. These are solid ratios. Sometimes when I’m on a budget I’ll just use vanilla extract. The world does not end.

As I was getting ready to make another batch for the nth time I noticed I had a bag of muesli: good news is you can use the liquid ingredients with 5 cups of good quality store-bought muesli, then follow instructions and get similar yummy flavor with even less work:)

Try the Eleven Madison Park granola (can also be found in Cooking). I thinks I like it better.

Insanely good. This is granola crack

I added a cup of unsweetened coconut halfway through the cooking. Would add it a little later next time. Also added dried cherries and sunflower seeds,

Might be me but I used 1 1/2 tsp fine sea salt and it was way too salty. Going to make it with half as much and see how it goes. Otherwise, great.

used only rolled oatsadded sour cherries and pumpkin seedssubbed walnuts for almondsTakes much longer to bake 35 or so

Way too sweet!!! Try using the cup of sweetener (maple syrup honey or whatever) with half cup of oil, no need to boil unless you’re particularly fussy or your honey is hard and mix with 8-10 cups of dry ingredients. Not cornflakes. Instead rolled spelt or rye flakes or other rolled grains as well as nuts, coconuts flakes.

We love this granola! I use vanilla extract and it’s fine, plus zest from one big orange. Be sure to stir thoroughly halfway through. Really, it’s candied cereal but so what. I like it with unsweetened coconut yogurt.

This has become my go-to granola; we use it as cereal. Love that it’s homemade without all the junk and not as sweet as the store bought cereals we’re used to. I call it “baklava granola” because the sweet honey and orange are somehow reminiscent of baklava to me. The salt here is the most genius addition. It’s what every other granola is missing, a proper amount of salt to make it properly addicting and delicious! Obviously every salt is different so don’t mind the comments and experiment!

Love the crunch but found this to be way too salty. And it was excessively bitter from the orange. Next time I’ll cut salt by 1/3, reduce orange by half ... and maybe add a bit of cardamom.

-This reminds me of a homemade version of "honey bunches of oats" cereal. -Good idea using the steel cut oats - they stick to the other stuff and add crunch.-Even just using 1/2 tsp table salt, I found this too salty. Next time, use just a scant 1/4 tsp salt.-I added some unsweetened coconut flakes in place of some of the rolled oats.-Use just 1/4 cup each of the honey & maple syrup. The orange zest is a nice touch. I used some vanilla extract in place of vanilla bean.

Really lovely texture, but too sweet for my liking. Will cut the sweeteners next time as others have suggested!

My husband made this for our family. It is delicious. He said it was the best granola recipe he had ever tasted. And, he said the orange zest is really what made it.

a bit hit- but yes, very sweet, even with 1/4 cup honey (worth it)

I use 5 c rolled oats, 1 c unprocessed wheat bran, 1 c raw sunflower seeds, 1 c raw wheat germ, 1 c unsweetened coconut; 1 c of maple syrup is all you need for this amount of dry ingredients. I combine the syrup with 1 c of raw coconut oil, 1/2 c water and 2 t of vanilla extract. Bake 1 hr (maybe more) at 250. This gives you all the fiber you'll need! When I want to make GF version, I use 1 c oat bran instead of wheat, & add flax seed powder instead of wheat germ.

I can’t eat corn flakes. Has anyone tried using Rice Krispies or some other gf cereal in this recipe?

Why does everyone keep commenting about steel cut oats? This recipe calls for Rolled Oats, completely different.