{"id":2672,"date":"2010-04-02T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T20:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2010-04-02T14:02:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T20:02:05","slug":"ginger-pecan-granola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/02\/ginger-pecan-granola\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginger Pecan Granola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greek yogurt and granola is one of my favorite snacks.\u00c2\u00a0 I got a little burnt out on granola after making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/pumpkin-spice-granola\/\">Pumpkin Spice Granola<\/a> many, many times last fall, so I took a little break.\u00c2\u00a0 I switched to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/strawberry-banana-smoothie\/\">smoothies<\/a> instead.\u00c2\u00a0 But now I&#8217;m getting tired of smoothies, so it&#8217;s back to granola.\u00c2\u00a0 I love the ginger and pecans of this granola, combined with the sweetness of the dried cranberries.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes a delicious breakfast, snack, or dessert!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2674\" title=\"Ginger Pecan Granola\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Ginger-Pecan-Granola.jpg\" alt=\"Ginger Pecan Granola\" width=\"557\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Ginger-Pecan-Granola.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Ginger-Pecan-Granola-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Ginger Pecan Granola<\/h4>\n<p>from The Houston Chronicle, December 16, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Makes 10 cups <em>(I halved the recipe, and had plenty for a couple of weeks!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nonstick cooking spray<\/li>\n<li>6 cups whole oats<\/li>\n<li>2 1\/2 cups unsalted pecans<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup ground flax or flax meal (optional)<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup pure maple syrup<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/3 cup canola oil <em>(I used coconut oil)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>1\/3 cup water<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon kosher salt<\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh ginger<\/li>\n<li>2 cups dried cranberries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preheat oven to 275 degrees F.\u00c2\u00a0 Coat two baking sheets with non-stick cooking spray.\u00c2\u00a0 In a large bowl, mix together oats, pecans, and flax.\u00c2\u00a0 In a medium bowl, whisk together syrup, brown sugar, oil, water, salt and ginger.\u00c2\u00a0 Pour liquid over oats and stir until evenly coated.<\/p>\n<p>Distribute granola on baking sheets and bake until it is a rich brown color, about 1\u00c2\u00a0 to 1 1\/4 hours.\u00c2\u00a0 Turn pans during baking if granola is not cooking evenly.\u00c2\u00a0 Remove from oven, pour into a large bowl and toss with dried cranberries.\u00c2\u00a0 Let cook before storing in an airtight container.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/02\/ginger-pecan-granola\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek yogurt and granola is one of my favorite snacks.\u00c2\u00a0 I got a little burnt out on granola after making Pumpkin Spice Granola many, many times last fall, so I took a little break.\u00c2\u00a0 I switched to smoothies instead.\u00c2\u00a0 But now I&#8217;m getting tired of smoothies, so it&#8217;s back to granola.\u00c2\u00a0 I love the ginger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20,32,48,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast","category-dessert","category-pecans","category-recipes","category-snacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2677,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}