This low calorie homemade granola recipe comes with 5 flavors for the best healthy granola recipes. This way you can keep your tastebuds happy, and make a different flavor each week.
My low calorie homemade recipe for granola is easy to make and perfectly crunchy. Plus it’s packed full of good for you ingredients that can help you in weight loss and weight maintenance.
This is the best granola recipe! It’s healthy, vegan, gluten free, and has lots of modifications for different yummy DIY granola recipes.
To keep this homemade granola healthy, I picked only all natural, whole ingredients. These pantry staples can help you make granola for months on end after a single purchase. Be sure to see the shopping list for links to great sales on ingredients.
This healthy homemade granola recipe is just 203 calories for 1/2 cup…
Low Calorie Granola Recipes
To make this granola recipe easy, I’ve supplied you with a printable recipe card, a nutrition label and even a shopping list!
This easy granola recipe is even mixed in the same dish you bake it in… so the cleanup is minimal. You get healthy homemade granola, without making a huge kitchen mess.
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Ingredients in Healthy Granola Recipes
What makes this recipe for granola best, is the whole ingredients. This healthy packed granola mix will keep you full for hours, and will give you a well rounded grouping of nuts, seeds, granola oats and more depending on the flavor you choose.
These basic granola recipes are the best baked granola pairings. So you can take your favorite flavor combinations, and turn them into your own granola creation.
Granola Ingredients Shopping List:
Basic Granola Recipe:
- Old-fashioned rolled oats (or gluten-free rolled oats)
- Coconut oil
- Brown sugar
- Raw sunflower seeds
- Flax seeds
- Unsweetened apple sauce
- Vanilla extract
- Salt
Coconut Cashew Granola (Add to Basic Granola Recipe Ingredients)
- Chopped cashews
- Unsweetened flaked coconut
- Coconut extract
Berry Granola (Add to Basic Granola Recipe Ingredients)
- Strawberries, freeze dried
- Raspberries, freeze dried
- Blueberries, freeze dried
Vanilla Almond Granola (Add to Basic Granola Recipe Ingredients)
- Sliced almonds
- Almond extract
Cinnamon Pecan Granola (Add to Basic Granola Recipe Ingredients)
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Chopped pecans
How to Make Healthy Granola
This homemade healthy granola is simple and easy to make. You actually do all the mixing, baking, and cooling/crisping all in the same 9×9 baking dish!
All of the 5 best granola recipes are made the same way… except one. For the Berry Granola, you’ll want to add the berries in after the granola is done baking.
How to Make Granola DIY Recipes:
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- In a 9 x 9 casserole dish, combine all the granola ingredients (except for the berry granola), and mix well.
- Bake for 15 to 18 minutes, stirring twice, until golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and leave uncovered on the countertop overnight to crisp up. Then store in a cool dry place for up to a week.
5 Low Calorie Granola Recipes
Below you will find the 5 best granola recipes. They are all low in calories, easy to make and clean up, and completely delicious.
These healthy homemade granola recipes are vegan and gluten free (for GF be sure to get GF Oats!)
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5 Low Calorie Granola Recipes
Ingredients
Basic Granola Recipe:
- 2 ½ cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons raw sunflower seeds
- 2 tablespoons flax seeds
- ½ cup unsweetened apple sauce
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
Coconut Cashew Granola (Add to Basic Granola Recipe Ingredients)
- ½ cup chopped cashews
- ½ cup unsweetened flaked coconut
- 1 teaspoon coconut extract
Berry Granola (Add to Basic Granola Recipe Ingredients)
- ⅓ cup freeze dried strawberries (add after baking)
- ⅓ cup freeze dried raspberries (add after baking)
- ⅓ cup freeze dried blueberries (add after baking)
Vanilla Almond Granola (Add to Basic Granola Recipe Ingredients)
- ½ cup sliced almonds
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
Cinnamon Pecan Granola (Add to Basic Granola Recipe Ingredients)
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- In a 9 x 9 casserole dish, combine all the granola ingredients, and mix well.
- Bake for 15 to 18 minutes, stirring twice, until golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and leave uncovered on the countertop overnight to crisp up. Then store in a cool dry place for up to a week.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Granola Recipes
Many granola recipes call for lots of sugar and butter… but not this one! I cut the sugar down to almost nothing with the help of metabolism boosting apple sauce. Then I cut the butter (again thanks to the apple sauce) and used a tiny bit of coconut oil to help the granola crisp up.
What you end up with is a super healthy, yummy granola recipe that is great for your diet! The nutrition below is based off 1 serving (1/2 cup) of the Basic Granola Recipe above.
Important Note: As a reminder, at Lose Weight By Eating it is my goal to make you healthier, all-natural versions of your favorite recipes… not all will be “diet worthy” depending on the diet you are on. But they will be healthier versions to help curb your cravings.
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Article History:
- Originally written and published on May 12, 2021 by Audrey Johns
- Updated on March 16, 2023 by Audrey Johns
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