Who says you can’t have your granola and eat it too? Well, actually nobody because that’s not a saying, but in this featured recipe from the popular food blog alldayidreamaboutfood, we think you’ll discover a new breakfast favorite. For all of you granola lovers out there looking for a low-carb option, this one’s for you!
Servings: # 12
Ingredients:
- 1½ cups almonds
- 1½ cups pecans
- 1 cup shredded coconut or almond flour
- ¼ cup sunflower seeds
- 1/3 cup Swerve Sweetener
- 1/3 cup vanilla whey protein powder or collagen protein powder
- 1/3 cup peanut butter
- ¼ cup butter
- ¼ cup water
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 300F and line a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a food processor, process almonds and pecans until they resemble coarse crumbs with some larger pieces. Transfer to a large bowl and stir in shredded coconut, sunflower seeds, sweetener, and vanilla protein powder.
- In a microwave safe bowl, melt the peanut butter and butter together.
- Pour melted peanut butter mixture over nut mixture and stir well, tossing lightly. Stir in water. Mixture will clump together.
- Spread mixture evenly on prepared baking sheet and bake 30 minutes, stirring halfway through. Remove and let cool completely.
Nutritional Info per serving (recipe makes 12 servings):
Calories: 338, fat: 30g, carbs: 10g, fiber: 5, protein: 9g
Recipe shared with permission from alldayidreamaboutfood. Click here to see the original recipe and notes.
Re the peanut butter granola, that recipe would result in servings only 1/4 Cup in size.
At 30 grams of carbs per serving it doesn’t see a good “low carb” food to me.
Gaye Stennett
I agree with you Gaye Stennett
I think you meant 10g per 1/4 c. Serving. But I agree this is probably too high for a low carb diet.
Look again, Gaye – it says 30 grams of fat and 10 grams of carbs per serving. That’s still too much carb for me at breakfast, but it’s a long way from 30 grams.
Agree. So what are we missing.
I think you might be looking at the grams of fat, which is 30. It is 10g of carbs per 1/2 cup (5.5 cups of dry ingredients (water will be cooked off during baking) divided by 12, equals approx. 1/2 cup serving size (0.46) if I’m not mistaken). Commercial granolas are often 40-50g of carbs per 1/2 cup, so this, at 10g per 1/2 cup is significantly reduced, if not low.
I think you might be looking at the grams of fat, which is 30. It is 10g of carbs per 1/2 cup serving (5.5 cups of ingredents (water bakes off) divided by 12 equals approx 1/2 cup (0.46 cup) serving size). Many commercial granolas are 40-50g of carbs per 1/2 cup serving, so this is definitely reduced at 10g, if not “low.”
It’s 10 grams of carbs. Still a pretty small breakfast at 1/4 cup.