If you want to control what goes into your toasted muesli (and also half the price of the supermarket box), you can make your own. Â It does not require specific equipment: an oven and a small food processor, a chopping board and a knife. Â You can even do without the food processor.
This recipe uses some dry fruits and nuts. Â Feel free to adapt the ingredients, for example you may want more nuts of various kinds and no dry fruits, or you may substitute the apricots with shredded coconut. Â I did not write down my first attempt to toasted muesli, it was a lot of nuts, chia seeds and coconut. Â One guiding rule: use (based on weight) round 60% weight of rolled oats. Commercial toasted muesli are most often 80% rolled oats.
Ingredients:
- 750 g rolled oats
- 150 g dry apricots
- 150 g dry figs
- 150 g pepitas
- 150 g hazelnuts
- 150 g raw macadamia
- 1/4 cup olive oil (use any good vegetable oil of your choice)
- 1/4 cup of liquid honey
- 1/2 tsp salt
Method:
- With a large knife, cut the figs in strips and the apricots in small pieces up to 5 mm long
- Place the nuts (macadamia and hazelnuts) in a small food processor and blend to reach small to medium size. For example, you want each hazelnut cut at least in two and each macadamia at least in four. Â I find that there will be some full nuts left and I will cut those with the knife on the chopping board. Â There may be a few whole nuts left, that’s all right.
- In a large baking tray, place all dry ingredients, roughly mix.
- Put the honey and oil in a small bowl, heat up 15 seconds in the microwave and pour over the mix. Â Using your hands, coat all the ingredients as much as you can.
- Then bake on 180-200°C. After 10 minutes, use a fork to move the muesli around. Repeat every 10 minutes until toasted.
- Once cooled down, transfer in a storage jar .
