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Chocolate Granola, Crock-pot Option

Servings 14 cups
Author Sonja

Ingredients

  • 8 cups organic rolled oats
  • 3 cups chopped nuts-walnuts almonds or pecans (I use 1 cup of each)
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • optional 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds
  • optional 1/4 cup hemp hearts (raw shelled hemp seeds)
  • 1 cup coconut oil
  • 3/4 cup honey maple syrup for vegan
  • 1 cup chocolate chips make sure they are dairy-free for vegan
  • 1-2 cups unsweetened coconut flakes
  • 1-2 cups dried cranberries dried blueberries, dried cherries (or dried fruit of choice)

Instructions

Crock-pot Directions

  1. Grease bottom and side of crock-pot with coconut oil.
  2. Place oats, cocoa powder, nuts, and seeds in the crock-pot, and stir.
  3. Heat coconut oil until melted (about 1 minute in the microwave).
  4. Pour coconut oil and honey over the oat mixture, and stir.
  5. Cover and cook on high with the lid slightly cracked (I use a popsicle stick).
  6. Stir well every 15 minutes, making sure you stir the granola off the bottom of the crock-pot well.
  7. Cook until desired (I usually cook it for 45 minutes to 1 hour, but you could go longer to get a more dried, golden brown look, about 2-2 1/2 hours).
  8. In the last 15 minutes of cooking add the chocolate chips.
  9. Stir in coconut flakes and dried fruit when finished cooking.
  10. For a crunchier granola, cool for about 3 hours in the crock-pot in the "off" position with the lid off, stirring every hour or so before placing it in an airtight container.
  11. Store in airtight containers for up to a month.

Oven Directions

  1. Halve the recipe or use the full recipe with two baking sheets.
  2. Preheat the oven to 300.
  3. Stir dry ingredients together in a large bowl (minus chocolate chips), stir wet ingredients together in a separate bowl, and pour onto dry ingredients.
  4. Grease baking sheet, and place granola on baking sheet.
  5. Bake for 30-45 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes or until golden brown.
  6. In the last 10 minutes of cooking add the chocolate chips.
  7. Cool and store in an air tight container.