Best Granola

Claiming best is dangerous when it comes to recipes but..
this is my favorite granola recipe and it's the best.

I got this recipe from Molly at Orangette. She adapted the recipe from Nigella Lawson’s Feast. I used sorghum syrup because I had it and a friend made it locally.

Go make this now, you'll never buy granola again.

Dry ingredients:
5 cups rolled oats
2 to 3 cups raw almonds
1 cup hulled raw sunflower seeds
¾ cup sesame seeds
¾ cup light brown sugar
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. salt

Wet ingredients:
¾ cup unsweetened apple sauce
1/3 cup sorghum syrup or brown rice syrup
¼ cup honey
2 Tbsp. vegetable or nut oil (I used macadamia nut oil)

Set racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven. Preheat the oven to 300°F.

In a large bowl, combine all of the dry ingredients. Stir to mix well. In a small bowl, combine all of the wet ingredients. Stir to mix well. Pour the wet ingredients over the dry ones, and stir well.

Spread the mixture evenly on two rimmed baking sheets. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until evenly golden brown. Set a timer to go off every ten minutes while the granola bakes, so you can rotate the pans and give the granola a good stir; this helps it to cook evenly. When it’s ready, remove the pans from the oven, stir well – this will keep it from cooling into a hard, solid sheet – and set aside to cool. The finished granola may still feel slightly soft when it comes out of the oven, but it will crisp as it cools.

Scoop cooled granola into to a large zipper-lock plastic bag or other airtight container. Store in the refrigerator indefinitely.

Yield: about 10 cups