Low FODMAP Chocolate Granola

This delicious granola offers a cornucopia of plant-based goodness for your gut. Your good gut bacteria will love the fibre in the nuts and seeds and the polyphenols in the cocoa. Plus, it contains 10 plant-based foods and chocolate. Your gut will love the variety. And you will love the gut-friendly goodness.

Ingredients (Makes 1kg. A low fodmap single serve is 40-50g):

Main ingredients:

• 110g almonds, roughly chopped      

• 62g macadamias, roughly chopped

• 230g organic brown puffed rice          

• 130g puffed rice (I used Gluten-Free Kellogg’s Rice Bubbles)

• 110g puffed quinoa

Wet ingredients:

• 125g coconut oil, melted

• 80g maple syrup

• 95g brown rice syrup

• 10g unsweetened cocoa powder (I used Pana Cocoa)

Dry ingredients:

• 30g sunflower seeds

• 62g golden (or brown) linseeds

• 16g sesame seeds

• 100g pepitas (pumpkin seeds)

• 20g dark chocolate, roughly chopped

• 20g cocoa nibs   

• 5g (extra) cocoa powder

• 65g coconut flaked or shredded (or a combination of both!)

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 170C and line 2 trays with baking paper.

2. Roughly chop almonds and macadamias.

3. Mix the first 5 dry ingredients in a large bowl.

4. Then add the wet ingredients into a small jug with 10g cocoa powder.

5. Put all the liquid ingredients in the microwave for 30 seconds to loosen up the rice syrup and stir.

6. Mix wet and dry ingredients and then place on lined baking trays.

7. Cook in a slow-moderate oven for 12 mins. When the timer goes, swap trays around and cook for another 3 mins.

8. While cooling, stir in the remaining ingredients (extra cocoa & coconut).

9. Cool for at last 40 minutes (depending on how thin/thick it’s laid out. Ensure the tray is cool and the middle of the granola pile has cooled, before storing in an airtight container).