(For about 3-4 servings)
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups rolled oats (I now grind my own oat berries, on coarsest setting)
a handful of walnuts
a handful of almonds
about a dozen cashews
about a dozen pecans
a tablespoon of sesame seeds
1/2 t cinnamon powder
2 T ghee
a generous 1/3 cup sugar or as desired
1/4 cups water
a handful of raisins
PREPARATION:
Put the oats in a baking pan
Coarsely chop up all the nuts and add to the oats
Add the sesame seeds and cinnamon
Bring the water and sugar to a boil in a saucepan and stir until sugar is dissoved, then add the ghee.
After cooling a bit, pour over the oats mixture and stir well
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes to bake evenly.
Stir in the raisins last 5 mintures or at the end of baking.
Cool and then offer to Krishna in a big bowl with fresh, creamy milk poured on top.
VARIATIONS: So many recipes out there give more ideas for ingredients like sunflower seeds, coconut, dried fruits and brown sugar. Also this was a super rich banana bread and the extras got cut up and dried on low heat into cereal type pieces, then added to finished granola which was finally topped with fresh fruit, namely bananas. You could taste cinnamon, too, which was in the banana
bread.
