Sherie's Granola

My granola recipe. This is a very flexible recipe. Use what you have, exclude what you don't, add something new if desired. 

12 cups old fashioned oats or other rolled grain (oats works best but a 9 grain mix also works well)
4 1/2 cups nuts (pecans, almonds, or walnuts work best, put in plastic bag and go over it with a rolling pin to crush them a bit)
1 cup sunflower seeds

1/2-1 cup of flax seeds

1 cup or less Organic Whole Grain Sugar (Rapunzel brand on Amazon.com)
1 1/2 t. salt
1 1/2 t. cinnamon
3/4 cup coconut or Extra virgin olive oil
3/4 cup honey
3 t. vanilla

2 1/2 cups of raisins

Combine dry ingredients except raisins.  Heat oil and honey but do not boil.  Remove from heat, add the vanilla and mix well.  Pour the wet ingredients over the dry and toss together for a few minutes.  Spread a quarter of the mixture at a time on a cookie sheet/jelly roll pan and bake at 350 degrees beginning at 5-6 minutes--I like crunchier granola so mine is double the time.  Take the pan out of the oven, use a pancake turner and spread the granola around and bake again for similar minutes (watch that it doesn't get too brown but start with the lower time and then keep flipping and adding minutes until it is your desired crispness). Add raisins after granola cools.

--Sherie

PS.  I don't know why it formatted this way.  Sorry.