Maple Quinoa Granola Recipe

comment icon 48 more comments Crunchy, naturally sweet, with big clusters that stick together for easy bite-by-bite snacking? This is exactly how I like my granola. Granola is one of those things that always requires a bit of a reminder for me each year. Remember? Remember granola? Remember how good it is, how versatile, how long-lasting it can be (hello, freezer), how fun for gifting, how easy to make, how nutritious, how delicious for breakfast, and snacks, and dessert? It’s like every year I forget but I come back around to it with renewed passion as we enter the season where it starts to feel really good to have the oven on and the smells of cinnamon and maple and toasted nuts swirling around the house. This quinoa granola was brought into my life by the new-ish Well Plated cookbook (affiliate link), and I haven’t been able to get enough of it ever since. If you’ve never made anything with raw quinoa before, you are in for a crunchy little treat. The quinoa gives a little nutty flavor and an extra-big crunch, along with the chia seeds, and generally gives your mouth a little something to go, ooh, that’s interesting! before being overtaken by the mapley sweet oats and toasty nuts and dried fruit.

How To Serve This Granola

Not like you need any ideas but in case you need some ideas, here’s how I love to eat this granola:

By the cluster. Like, one jumbo mapley cluster at a time, out of the container. I’m just being real with you.Over yogurt, for breakfast.With fruit, for a snack.With milk! Like, cereal style, as a totally normal bedtime treat.Crumbled over these little individual apple crisps. It sounds like I just made that up, but I definitely have done this.

What a treat – the cozy, nutritious, gloriously yummy simple pleasure of food. That is what maple quinoa granola is all about.

Watch How To Make This Recipe:

This recipe is republished with permission from The Well Plated Cookbook by Erin Clarke! It’s a super fun cookbook with fast, healthy, easy recipes – this maple quinoa granola being one of my favorites!