There are always loads of recipes I'd like to try but lose them before I do. This is where I can record recipes I find interesting and keep notes on my experiments with them.

I have a system that I've adopted for working through recipes:

1 - New recipes are saved to the Experimental Mouffette and is labeled : Untested
2 - As I'm working out the changes I'd like to make (if any) it is labeled : Testing
3 - Once I think I've got the correct formula it is labeled : Test 1
4 - IF I am able to reproduce the effect a second time it is labeled : Test 2 - if I am not able to reproduce the effect, it remains Test 1
5 - The same process as step 4 is used to graduate it to Test 3
6 - Once I have been able to reproduce the effect successfully 3 times, it graduates to my main blog, La Mouffette Gourmande

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Monday, June 15, 2020

Granola - Untested


4 cups / 360 g rolled oats (not steel cut or quick cooking)
1 cup coconut flakes (or more nuts or oats)
4 Tbsps sunflower seeds
4 Tbsps pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup chopped nuts (hazelnuts)
1/2 cup dried fruit (eg. chopped apricots, apple, pineapple, raisins)
1 tsp Poudre Douce
1 pinch salt
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup fat melted butter or grapeseed oil or sunflower oil
1 1/2 tsp flavouring (eg. vanilla, almond essence, orange blossom)
2 egg whites
  1. Preheat oven to 140C/280F. Line a large baking tray with baking paper.
  2. Combine Wet excluding egg whites.
  3. Combine Dry including dried fruit.
  4. Whisk egg whites with fork until foamy.
  5. Mix Wet and Dry in a large bowl, then mix through egg whites.
  6. Spread granola on the tray, making a hole in the centre, like a doughnut (see photo in post).
  7. Bake for 45 minutes - DO NOT STIR - until golden. Check at 35 minutes. 
  8. Then turn the oven off, leave the granola in the oven, and open the oven door open a bit. Leave the granola to cool. The colour will deepen and it will firm up.
  9. Once cool, break into clusters. Store in an airtight container.

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