Banana Bread Granola with Coconut and Pecans

I'm a big fan of granola- I'd take it over a boring bowl of cornflakes any day. But I don't mean those boring old ones with dried fruit and dry bits of bran. I like the ones with big crunchy clusters of nuts, oats and coconut that hold bags of flavour.

And this granola is just that! With the warm, spicy notes of a good piece of banana bread, and toasty flavours from the pecans, it seems almost illegal to have it for breakfast... (just almost).

Recipe-

Ingredients

1 overripe banana

85g liquid sweetener (such as maple syrup, honey, rice malt syrup etc)

2 tbs peanut butter

1 tsp cinnamon

½ tsp vanilla essence

150g rolled oats

25g shredded coconut

40g pecans

Preheat oven to 180°C, or 350°F. Lightly grease a high sided baking tray.

Mash the banana with the syrup, peanut butter, cinnamon and vanilla in a mixing bowl. Once smooth, add the rest of the ingredients and toss to combine.

Pour out into a high sided baking tray and bake for 25-30 minutes, tossing the granola every 10 minutes, until golden brown.

Leave to cool in the tray, then store in an airtight container.

DIFFICULTY	INGREDIENTS	PREP TIME	COOK TIME
Easy	8	5 minutes	25-30 minutes