Gluten-Free Homemade Granola

There’s a lot to love about having a jar of homemade granola sitting on the counter. It’s crunchy, lightly sweet, extremely versatile and perfect for busy mornings, afternoon snacks, or sprinkling over yogurt. This Gluten-Free Homemade Granola is simple to make, packed with wholesome ingredients, and always tastes so much better than anything you’ll find at the store. It’s naturally dairy-free, easily gluten-free, and able to be adjusted for any food allergies.

Why You’ll Love This Granola

Once you make your own granola at home, it’s hard to go back to the packaged kind. This granola has the perfect balance of crunchy clusters and toasted oats, with just the right amount of sweetness. It’s hearty enough to keep you full but still light and delicious.

Not only does it taste fresher, one of the best parts about homemade granola is how customizable it is. You can adjust the sweetness and add your favorite nuts, seeds, or dried fruit to make it exactly how you like it.

Plus, when you make it yourself, you can easily ensure everything is certified gluten-free, which is important if you’re gluten sensitive or have celiac disease.

Substitutions & Favorite Add-Ins:

The best part about homemade granola is you can do a “pantry clean out” and add almost any seeds, nuts, grains, dried fruits, and more! These are all suggestions that we’ve tried:

Sweeteners – You can skip sugar all together or swap maple syrup for agave or honey and brown sugar for coconut sugar. Or use applesauce or a well-mashed overripe banana.

Oil – Swap oil for coconut oil or hazelnut oil or leave it out.

Nuts & Coconut – swap coconut flakes for sweetened or unsweetened shredded coconut. Use any nuts like pumpkin seeds, Brazil nuts, walnuts, almonds, pistachios, etc.

Spices, extracts, etc – Add in vanilla, Himalayan salt, smoked grey salt, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, or any other spices you’d love.

Seeds & Grains – Add any seeds or grains like oat bran, chia seeds, toasted wheat germ, flax seeds, quinoa.

Dried fruits – Pretty much any dried fruit you’d like can go in like banana chips, dried cranberries, apricots, dates, raisins, mulberries, blueberries, pineapple, candied ginger, etc.

Extras – add in almond butter, or once it’s cooled mix in chocolate chips or broken yogurt covered pretzels, anything is possible!

So Many Ways to Enjoy It

One batch of homemade granola can be used in so many different ways! Some of our favorite ways to use granola:

• Sprinkled over yogurt with fresh fruit
• Poured into a bowl with milk, like cereal
• Added to acai smoothie bowls for extra crunch
• Top ice cream with a handful of granola
• Use as a topping on apple crisp
• Packed as an easy grab-and-go snack
• Layered into parfaits

Notes:

Clumpy granola? Stir the granola less often then press down and let granola cool unbothered.

Storage: Keep in an airtight container and store at room temperature for at least one month. I love to use two large 1/2 gallon mason jars for one batch.

More Recipes You’ll Love:

• Gluten-Free Breakfast Casserole
• Strawberry Mango Glow Smoothie
• Grandma’s Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Waffles
• Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Pasta Caesar Salad