Best Low Fat Granola Recipes

SUPER LOW-FAT GRANOLA CEREAL

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the oats, raisins, apricots and cranberries; set aside. In a small saucepan, combine the brown sugar, water and salt. Cook and stir over medium heat for 3-4 minutes or until brown sugar is dissolved. Remove from the heat; stir in maple flavoring and vanilla. Pour over oat mixture; stir to coat., Transfer to two greased 15x10x1-in. baking pans. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until crisp, stirring every 10 minutes. Cool completely on wire racks. Store in an airtight container. Serve with milk or yogurt.

HIGH-PROTEIN LOW-FAT GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a mini muffin tin with cooking spray.
• Combine chickpeas and egg whites in a food processor; blend until well mixed.
• Pour chickpea mixture into a bowl. Add apple, oats, puffed wheat, applesauce, chocolate chips, honey, almond butter, cranberries, almonds, and cinnamon; stir until batter is evenly mixed.
• Drop tablespoonfuls of batter into the prepared muffin tin; press down to flatten.
• Bake in the preheated oven until sides are golden, about 12 minutes.

LOW-FAT GRANOLA

Steps:

• Heat oven to 300 degrees.with rack in center. In a large mixing bowl, combine oats, wheat germ, flax seed, cinnamon, ginger, sunflower seeds, and walnuts. In a small bowl, combine molasses, oil, and 1/3 cup water, and pour over the oat mixture; stir until well coated. Spread evenly in two baking pans.
• Bake, stirring every 20 minutes or so for even cooking, until dry and lightly browned, about 45 minutes. Let granola cool to room temperature, then store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 month.

EASY, LOW-FAT GRANOLA

Steps:

• Heat oven to 300°F.
• In large bowl combine dry ingredients. Slowly stir in the vanilla, honey and applesauce until combined.
• Spread the mixture evenly on a lightly sprayed baking sheet.
• Bake for 20 minutes. Add in the cranberries, pressing them into the granola. (If you want the cranberries to cook and be a little firm, which the husband and I do, stir them in after 20 minutes. If you're like my brother, leave the cranberries out and add once the granola has cooked completely so they'll stay moist.) Continue cooking for a total of 30 minutes to an hour - stirring every 15 minutes - or until golden brown. If you stir less often, you'll have more clumps in your granola.
• Cool completely and store in an airtight container or divide into individual portions. I divided my batch into 2-ounce servings, 8 servings in all.

LOW FAT CRUNCHY GRANOLA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 275º.
• Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
• Combine brown sugar and water in a 4-cup microwave proof glass measuring cup or bowl.
• Place in microwave on high for 5 minutes and cook until sugar is completely dissolved.
• Remove from microwave, add vanilla and salt.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine oats, nuts, wheat bran, oat bran, wheat germ, coconut, sunflower seeds, and brown sugar syrup mixture.
• Stir until thoroughly mixed.
• Spread the granola onto cookie sheets and bake 45 minutes to 1 hour or until golden and crunchy.
• Stir every fifteen minutes.
• (I use a very large stainless steel bowl instead of a cookie sheet) After baking you may add raisins, dates, or any other dried fruit.
• Yield 14 cups (before adding fruit).

LOW-FAT GRANOLA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
• Combine sugar and water in a 4 cup microwave safe dish and microwave for 5 minutes or until all sugar is dissolved.
• Add vanilla and salt to sugar mixture.
• Place oats and nuts in extra large mixing bowl.
• Add sugar mixture into the oats and nuts and mix VERY thoroughly.
• Spread on 2 cookie sheets sprayed with cooking spray.
• Bake at 275 degrees for 1 hour stirring every 15 minutes.
• Allow to cool completely and store in an airtight container.

LOW-FAT CITRUS GRANOLA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
• Combine oatmeal,almonds, sunflower seeds, wheat germ and cinnamon.
• In a saucepan, combine brown sugar and honey. Bring to a boil.
• Remove from heat and add lemon and orange rind and juice.
• Toss liquid mixture with dry mixture.
• Spray large pan, spread with granola and bake at 300 degrees F for 30 minutes. Stir every 10 minutes until golden brown.
• Cool.
• Add dried fruit.
• Store in airtight container.

LOW-FAT GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Coat an 8-inch square pan using nonstick cooking spray.
• Combine oats, flour, wheat germ, and cinnamon. Stir until well mixed.
• Add honey, stirring until mixture is moist and crumbly.
• Fold in raisins.
• Press mixture into pan and bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Cool to room temperature, Cut into 12 bars and serve.

LOW FAT CRANBERRY CHOCOLATE CHIP GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees farenheit.
• Spray an 8" square pan with cooking oil spray or coat sides and bottom of pan with canola oil.
• In a large bowl, combine oats, flour, wheat germ, and cinnamon.
• Stir in honey until dry ingredients are well coated.
• Stir in dried cranberries and 1/3 cup of the chocolate chips.
• Pat mixture into oiled pan.
• Top mixture with remaining 1/3 cup of chocolate chips.
• Bake for 18 - 20 minutes or until top is golden.
• Cool in pan, then cut into squares.

PASSOVER LOW-FAT GRANOLA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine farfel, coconut and nuts in a large bowl.
• Spread onto non-stick cookie sheet.
• Bake 20 minutes, tossing several times.
• Meanwhile, in a two-quart saucepan combine oil, sweetener and salt.
• Simmer, stirring constantly.
• Add farfel mixture.
• Stir until coated evenly.
• Add cinnamon and grated orange peel.
• Spread onto non-stick cookie sheet.
• Bake 20 minutes, stirring frequently until brown.
• Remove and cool.
• Add raisins.
• Break up any large chunks with a spatula.
• Store in closed container in the refrigerator until served.

LOW-FAT GRANOLA CEREAL-HOT DIRECTIONS

Steps:

• MICROWAVE DIRECTIONSPlace cereal and milk in microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at HIGH for 2 minutes or until mixture starts to boil. Remove from microwave. Stir, let stand 1 1/2 minutes or until desired consistency. Stir again before serving. To add crunch, add additional cereal on top before serving.NOTE: * To make 2 servings increase HEALTHY CHOICE from KELLOGG'S Low-Fat Granola with Raisins cereal to 1 1/3 cups, milk to 1 cup and heating time to 2 1/2 minutes.* To make 3 servings increase HEALTHY CHOICE from KELLOGG'S Low-Fat Granola with Raisins cereal to 2 cups, milk to 1 1/2 cups and heating time to 3 minutes.