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Yes! You can totally make granola with steel-cut oats! This Honey Nut Steel-Cut Granola is packed full of flavor and healthy nuts and will make you forget all about rolled oats in your granola!

Yes! You can totally make granola with steel-cut oats! This Honey Nut Steel-Cut Granola will make you forget all about rolled oats and will quickly become a breakfast staple. Growing up we only ever ate steel-cut oats. It wasn’t until I got really into healthy living blogs that I discovered that most people didn’t eat steel-cut oats. I honestly believed that rolled oats were called “quaker oats” since I only ever saw them come from those horrible quaker oat packets.

Feel free to judge.

But suddenly I found myself buying enormous bags of Trader Joe’s Rolled Oats, making overnight oatmeal and completely neglecting my beloved steel-cut oats. Truth is, once you discover the convenience of rolled oats (aka ready in under 10 mins!) it’s difficult to justify spending 30 minutes cooking steel-cut.

Yes! You can totally make granola with steel-cut oats! This Honey Nut Steel-Cut Granola is packed full of flavor and healthy nuts and will make you forget all about rolled oats in your granola!But I really do miss the crunchiness of steel-cut oats. Though to be fair, I think that I mostly miss how my mom used to make it with milk and brown sugar…so good.

Speaking of moms, have I mentioned that mine is wonderful? Mom, I can already feel you typing your response to this…

Allow me to explain.

Not only is she responsible for introducing me to steel-cut oats, but also for that delicious manuka honey you see in the background of those photos. She brought it back for me after her recent trip to New Zealand (where manuka-pollinating bees live) and I’ve basically been rationing it out every single day since.

Yes! You can totally make granola with steel-cut oats! This Honey Nut Steel-Cut Granola is packed full of flavor and healthy nuts and will make you forget all about rolled oats in your granola!This stuff is like gold. If you’ve never tried manuka honey, start saving your pennies and then invest in a little jar of this magic. The best way for me to describe it is like “the most honey-filled honey you have ever tasted”. Does this make sense?

Confession: I totally didn’t use the manuka honey in this Honey Nut Steel-Cut Granola. It is far too precious for that. But I DID top the granola with a bit of manuka honey for an added sweet and antioxidant-filled boost!

Apparently manuka honey has all sorts of health-benefits and its encouraged you have a spoonful a day. An excuse to eat a spoonful of honey everyday? Thanks Mom!

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Honey Nut Steel-Cut Granola

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Yes! You can totally make granola with steel-cut oats! This Honey Nut Steel-Cut Granola is packed full of flavor and healthy nuts and will make you forget all about rolled oats in your granola!

  • Author: Davida Lederle
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 40 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
  • Yield: 8 servings 1x
  • Category: Breakfast
  • Method: Bake
  • Diet: Gluten Free

Ingredients

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Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
  2. In a large bowl combine steel-cut oats, nuts, cinnamon and sea salt.
  3. In a separate bowl combine coconut oil, applesauce, honey and vanilla.
  4. Stir wet ingredients into dry and mix until combined.
  5. Spread granola over a parchment or silicone-lined baking sheet.
  6. Bake for 20 mins.
  7. Remove from oven and flip and the bake for another 20 mins.
  8. Remove from oven once again, flip and then bake for another 15 mins.
  9. Remove from oven and flatten granola with the back of a spatula.
  10. LET SIT FOR ONE HOUR. Do not try to move granola off tray.
  11. After an hour, you can take the granola and break it up into clusters.
  12. Combine with raisins.
  13. Keep in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks (if it ever lasts that long…)

Yes! You can totally make granola with steel-cut oats! This Honey Nut Steel-Cut Granola is packed full of flavor and healthy nuts and will make you forget all about rolled oats in your granola!Have you ever tried manuka honey? What foods did your Mom introduce you to?

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75 Comments

  1. In my case the bottom came out toasted, almost burnt, in the first 20-min flip. We used 1.5 cups of nuts and added flax seeds, sesame seeds, and chia seeds. Maybe it was too dry? Either way, i recommend either following the recipe EXACTLY or if you’re feeling adventurous like I was, maybe lower the temp a bit and keep an eye on it. Good luck!






  2. I made this today and it looks and smells great. I swapped out one cup of steel cut oats for rolled oats, and used slivered almonds and walnuts, with some shredded coconut. I did not catch that I should have held the raisins out — will fix that next time.

    I used a tip in the comments about flipping between two baking trays, and that worked well. Didn’t use parchment. Instead of baking 3 times, I extended the bake time on each side a bit. Look forward to trying it.

  3. Put another baking pan (parchment paper and pan) over top the mixture, simply flip the pans. This will allow the bottom of the granola from the first pan to brown as well.

  4. I have sooooooo much steel cut oats so tried this recipe. I like the taste, though wish that it would be less crumbly.

    I did not have all the ingredients so had to substitute like mad, but kept the quantities the same.
    1. I used mashed bananas instead of applesauce
    2. I used canola oil instead of coconut oil
    3. I used agave nectar instead of honey

    Similar to some of the other posts, I was not able to ‘flip’ the granola because it was too crumbly, I simply gave it a stir.

    I wish the granola stuck a bit more together. I wonder if flax seed meal or an egg would be a good binding agent?

    Thanks for the recipe!






  5. when you say FLIP IT, does that just mean stir it up? as it does NOT flip at any of the stages.. Please answer as 2 others also asked

  6. Great recipe…I needed to make granola but only had steel cut oats..I subbed several things because we are only shopping when necessary. Used a combination of seeds and nuts..added coconut and ginger and did not have coconut oil so subbed with a bit of lemon infused olive oil..very yummy…

  7. I had lots of steel cut oatmeal I needed to use up and this recipe delivered! I modified by substituting half the applesauce with peanut butter and the honey for maple syrup. I also added coconut ribbons for the last 10 minutes. I initially pressed the granola into the pan and found this helped to create more clusters. Thanks!