Granola. How to make it at home

Granola is perfect for a good breakfast, a snack. Can be served with yogurt, milk, soy milk …., with the addition of fresh fruit, chopped chocolate . It is an evolution of muesli.
The recipe for the granola is simple. It can be prepared in quantity and store in a closed container for several days.

ricetta granola

Ingredients:
300 g oatmeal
Honey 100 g
100 g maple syrup
100 g brown sugar Muscovado or Demerara
100 ml water
100 g peeled almonds and chopped
100 g peeled hazelnuts (I used Noccio Cialda)
20 ml noccioolio (hazelnut oil)
4 g salt

Toast the oats in the oven at 180°C  for about 10 minutes, stirring often.
In a large saucepan and capacious put honey, maple syrup, sugar and water. Melt, simmer and withdraw slightly.
Let it cool down.
Add oats and salt and mix well.
Spread the mixture in one or more baking sheets lined with baking paper.
Place in oven for 15 minutes at 160˚C.
Combine also noccioolio, almonds, hazelnuts and put in oven for about 10 minutes.
Allow to cool and break up the granola.
The ingredients are approximate and can be customized by adding dried fruit of every kind. At the end you can add raisins, dark chocolate, dates, dried figs, goji berries …

granola

Raw zucchini spaghetti, pumpkin seed pesto, cherry tomatoes and goji

Spaghetti, yes, but made with zucchini! Fresh, tasty, healthy and easy to make!

spaghetti di verdura

 

Ingredients for 4 people:

4 zucchini clear fresh and boiled
20 cherry tomatoes
50 g pumpkin seeds
20 basil leaves
20 g goji berries
extra virgin olive oil
flax seeds
salt

First, prepare the pesto. Blend first pumpkin seeds. In a cold blender container , put the basil (keep aside 4 bunches for garnish) and cover with cold extra virgin olive oil . Add the pumpkin seeds and blend . Season with salt.

Take the zucchini, wash and with the special sharpener create spaghetti zucchini. Put them in a large bowl. Add the cherry tomatoes, washed and cut in half, the goji berries and season with salt and extra virgin olive oil

Divide the Zucchini spaghetti on 4 plates zucchini. Pour the pesto pumpkin seeds. Sprinkle flax seeds previously crushed in a mortar.

Complete with a few leaves of basil.

I use this:

Seared tuna, avocado, tomato, onions, macadamia nuts and sprouts

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Ingredients for 4 people:
480 g tuna steak red or yellow fin fresh
1 hard red tomato
1 ripe avocado
¼ onion
50 g toasted and coarsely chopped macadamia
80 g alfalfa sprouts
10 ml apple cider vinegar
maldon salt
extra virgin olive oil

Breaking down the tuna at -20˚C for at least 24 hours. This precaution should be taken for all the fish dishes that will be served raw or partially cooked.
Decongelarlo in the refrigerator.
Blanch the tomatoes for 12 seconds and cool in ice water. Peel it, cut it in half, remove seeds and cut into small squares regular. Season with a pinch of salt and a little oil.
Halve the avocado. Remove the stones. Pull out all the pulp and place in a bowl. With the help of a fork, mash the pulp, season with salt and very little oil, creating a smooth cream and dense.
Peel the onion and cut finely julienne. Put it in a container and add the apple cider vinegar. Allow the onion to marinate for an hour, then drain it.
Take the tuna steak, cut into 4 strips as regular as possible and dress with extra virgin olive oil.
Heat a non-stick pan and lay the strips of tuna. Leave them for a little over a minute, then turn them from the opposite side. Leave this part for a minute. Remove from heat and cut the tuna into cubes, (at least 5 per strip).
Arrange for each dish 5 tufts of cream of avocado, place the tuna, above which will put the diced tomatoes, onion, sprouts and macadamia.
Finish with a drizzle of olive oil and a bit ‘of Maldon salt.