Chocolate and nuts toasted muesli

This is my second toasted muesli recipe.  The first one was with nuts and dry fruits.  This one is a chocolate and nuts toasted muesli.  Not much difference in the doing really, just in the combination of ingredients.  I love toasted museli with yogurt and a little milk.  This is one of my favourite breakfast.  I have been doing mine to be able to control the amount of sugar (I like it with only a little sugar much less than commercial toasted muesli) and the nuts of my choice of course! 

This recipe uses rolled oats, seeds, nuts, cocoa and good quality dark chocolate.  Feel free to adapt the ingredients.

Ingredients:

• 750 g rolled oats
• 200 g good cooking chocolate (I use the 70% Nestle Plaistowe which can now be found in most supermarkets in Australia)
• 2 large tablespoons of cocoa
• 1 cup of walnuts kernels
• 1 cup of whole hazelnuts
• 1 tsp of cinamon
• 1/2 cup of pepitas
• 1/4 cup of poppy seeds
• 1/4 cup olive oil (use any good vegetable oil of your choice)
• 1/4 cup of liquid honey
• 1/2 tsp salt

You could use almonds also or swap walnuts for almonds.  If your taste tend to be on the sweet side, add 2 tablespoons of demanura sugar to the oat mix.

Method:

1. For the hazelnuts, place in a shallow baking dish at 160 degrees for 15-20 minutes.  Then remove, and place the hazelnuts in a tea towel, wrap the tea towel around and rub the nuts to get the skins off. Once the skins are removed, chop on a large choping board with a large knive to about a quarter size.
2. In a large roasting tray, place the oats, poppy seeds, cocoa, salt, cinamon.
3. Pour honey and oil over the oats. If the honey is not liquid, put the honey and oil in a small bowl, heat up 15 seconds in the microwave. Using your hands, coat all the ingredients

   

   as much as you can.

4. Then, bake on 170°C for about 20-30 minutes until just toasted. Every 10 minutes, use a fork to move the muesli around. You will know when toasted when the colour is slightly darker.
5. Once cooled down, add the pepitas, toasted hazelnuts, walnuts, and chocolate cut into little chunks.