Diabetes-Friendly Breakfast: Warm Spiced Granola

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Warm Spiced Granola recipe

Serves: 4

Granola ingredients:

• ½ cup coconut flakes
• ½ cup seeds: pumpkin, sunflower, sesame, flaxseed 
• ½ cup whole oats
• ½ cup nuts

Sauce ingredients:

• 3T coconut oil
• 3T warm spiced tea or rooibos
• 1t cinnamon
• Pinch of salt  
• ½T honey (optional)

Method:

• Heat oven to 180°C.
• Mix all granola ingredients. 
• Melt coconut oil and mix with other sauce ingredients in a separate bowl.
• Add sauce to dry ingredients. Mix well.
• Place mix on baking tray and bake for 30 minutes. 
• Stir every 10 minutes so it doesn’t burn.
• Allow to cool and store in airtight container.
• Serve with plain yoghurt.

Top tip:

Get creative and add vanilla, chia seeds, peanut butter, turmeric or black pepper.

Diabetes-friendly breakfast ideas

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