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RECIPE

Salted cocoa, tahini and buckwheat crunch

Use up leftover nuts and seeds in this gorgeous granola

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Photo: Facundo Bustamante

  • place PRE 5 minutes
  • place COOK 1 hour
  • place SERVES 350 grams
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This is the best way I know of to use up odds and ends of packets and nuts and seeds, especially those that have gone a little soft. It also makes delicious use of an egg white. The buckwheat isn’t essential, but it adds a lovely depth of flavour and crunch. Enjoy as a rich chocolate-scented breakfast cereal or a crunchy topping for ice cream and/or cooked fruit.

Method:

  • Preheat the oven to 150°C/130°C fan and line a baking sheet with baking paper.
  • Put all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl and stir well with a fork to distribute everything evenly.
  • Mix together the honey, tahini, oil and egg white. Pour into the nut mixture and stir to coat all the dry ingredients.
  • Spread the mixture out as thinly and evenly as possible on the prepared baking sheet – use the back of a dessertspoon. Bake for 30 minutes then remove from the oven and stir the mixture well, turning it over so the mixture at the bottom is at the top.
  • Bake for a further 30 minutes, turning again after 15 minutes.
  • Leave to cool on the baking sheet – it will crisp up nicely – then stir through the dried fruit.

    Adapted from Second Helpings (Quadrille)
Ingredients

3 tbsp buckwheat (or mixed seeds)

100g porridge oats (rolled oats)

60g mixed seeds

60g mixed nuts, roughly chopped (not too small)

40g soft light brown sugar

15g cocoa powder

A good pinch of fine sea salt

80g honey

2 tsp tahini

2 tsp olive oil

1 egg white

A handful of dried fruit, chopped if large (optional)

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