We don’t take superfood lightly over here at Nutrition By Mia. We add them to cookies, eat them for dinner and now use them to top our yogurt and oatmeal. Granola is great to have on hand for busy mornings and easy to prepare. This recipe features just a few ingredients that you may already have on hand, requires just a couple of tosses and into the oven it goes!
Nutrition:
Pumpkin seeds: Pumpkin seeds are rich in magnesium, our mineral linked to better sleep, elevated mood, and activation of more than 300 reactions in the body including metabolizing our food to energy and maintaining bone integrity. Our collagen-forming, healthy-skin-maintaining best friend, manganese (yes, they do sound similar) also happens to be particularly rich in these seasonal seedlings. And that just scratches the surface– vitamin E, phosphorous, copper, zinc, iron and protein are major standouts as well.
Hemp seeds:Hemp seeds are a vegetarians best friend when it comes to high quality protein. They happen to be one of the only plant-based sources of a complete protein meaning they contain the essential amino acids that our body cannot make (and therefore must obtain from food). Amino acids are the building blocks of protein.
- 1 cup oats
- 1/4 cup sliced almonds
- 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds (pepitas)
- 1 tbsp hemp seeds
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1/4 cup medium coconut flakes, unsweetened
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- Preheat the oven to 250 F.
- In a large bowl, mix your dry ingredients and coat ingredients with coconut oil and maple syrup.
- Spread mixture evenly on a greased or lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 20 minutes then turn with a spatula and bake for another 20 minutes.
