Line a sieve with cheesecloth or paper towels and suspend it over a bowl. Pour the yogurt into the sieve and allow it to drain, refrigerated, for 3 hours or overnight.
Place the thickened yogurt into a medium bowl and stir in the currants or raisins, vanilla, honey, and orange zest.
Thin with orange juice until it is a desirable consistency.
Divide yogurt among 4 dessert dishes or parfait glasses, spooning yogurt in alternating with granola. Garnish with sections of orange and serve.
o lift and flip the granola. Sprinkle the almonds over the
Place 1/3 cup of granola in a parfait glass. Top with half of the yogurt.
Repeat layers.
Top with remaining granola.
Note, mix any of your favorite fruits into the yogurt before assembling or layer fruit in between yogurt and granola layers if so desired.
Preheat oven to 300\u00b0.
In a bowl, stir together the oats, wheat germ and sunflower seeds.
In a small saucepan, heat, stirring until hot, then remove from heat.
Stir in vanilla, peanut butter and oat mixture until combined well.
Spread granola evenly in bottom of a jelly roll pan (15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1-inch) and bake in middle of oven, stirring occasionally.
Cook 40 minutes or until golden.
Cool granola and stir in raisins and nuts.
Granola can be kept in an airtight container, chilled. Makes about 4 1/2 cups.
epends how you like your granola to taste.
Add oats
ooking, let cool on stove. Granola will dry out a little
5 minutes.
Remove the granola from the oven and allow
o 350. Put your dry granola ingredients including coconut and cinnamon
ake mix: Use in any recipe calling for a yellow cake
inutes yields a slightly moist granola.
Bake longer for a
ake mix: Use in any recipe calling for a white cake
nch square baking pan [for recipe making 12 bars] or coat
bout 45 minutes.
Remove granola from oven and allow to
ith a wooden spoon. Pour granola onto sheet pan and spread
ontainer.
To make holiday granola, start by preheating oven to
Butter a 9\" square pan.
In a 3 qt saucepan boil corn syrup for 1 minute only, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat.
Stir in peanut butter.
Stir in granola and grated carrot if using.
Work fast as it hardens quickly.
Transfer to pan.
Spread and pat in place with a spoon or dampened spatula.
Cool for an hour before cutting into bars.
Preheat oven to 300\u00b0.
In blender, mix together eggs, butter, sweetener and vanilla.
In large bowl, mix together remaining ingredients.
Stir in liquid ingredients from blender.
Press in a 12 x 18 x 1-inch cookie pan.
Bake at 300\u00b0 for 15 minutes, checking the bars to make sure they do not burn on bottom.
Let cool and cut into 2 x 3-inch bars.
Serve 12.
Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
Mix oats, flour, honey, wheat germ, cashews, almonds, vegetable oil, coconut, brown sugar, vanilla, and salt together in a large bowl; spread onto a baking sheet.
Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes, stir, and increase heat to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Continue cooking until the granola is golden brown, about 10 minutes more. Cool granola completely before storing in an air-tight container.
Heat oven to 350\u00b0. Line an 8 or 9-inch square baking pan with foil. Lightly grease foil. Beat butter, honey and vanilla in a large bowl with electric mixer until well blended. With mixer on low speed, add egg, flour, granola and raisins and beat just until blended. Spread in prepared pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes until pick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan on rack. Drizzle glaze over top. When glaze has set, lift foil by ends to cutting board. Cut into bars. Makes 24.
nto the dish.
Refrigerate granola bars until solid, about 30