Skinny Maple Granola Yogurt Parfaits1
The pie has been eaten.
The Peanut Butter Cup Banana Bread can no longer be made into french toast for breakfast time. Tragic!
Now that the holiday season are almost over, we’ve got to get our skinny in. Let’s get enthusiastic about oats, nuts, and fruit!
Granola will be the picture of wellness, right?
Before we put our skinny jeans on, let’s laugh over Xmas stories.
So on Christmas eve, I drank rich burgandy or merlot wine with my family and baked a pie in my new horse mystic night-shirt. We sang tunes from the Audio of Music and ate way too much apple & pear pie. We’re totally strange and I love it.
Singing music and cooking pies in horse night shirts… Whatever!
On a serious note: Christmas morning hours got even better when my Grandma gave me personally a hummingbird pin. She’s very cute. Another showcase? Making banana breads into french toast! Like.
My cycling trainer informed me which the next thing to anticipate is bikini period… I cannot decide if that’s interesting or completely scary.
Before I understand it I’ll be drinking margaritas, painting my toes pink, and making strawberry shortcake. I have to get summer from my mind for a bit though.
We need to put our healthy jeans on!
The only thing I could suggest is eating butterless breakfasts and forgetting the top cinema popcorn.
We made us something to start off our day right. It’s got whole grains, fruit, yogurt, and nuts. Fruit and yogurt granola parfaits!
Maple syrup and apple sauce make this granola special without adding extra glucose.
Pecans and almonds keep it crunchy and gluten free cheesecake mini nutty.
I actually also added a bit of coconut at the top which became a toasted golden dark brown when baked. Great tasting.
Granola party!
McDonald’s fruit and yogurt parfait has nothing on these. Be sure you say goodbye to sugars overloaded cereal from your grocery store.
This granola is skinny!
Make it your own. Add toppings of your choice like pumpkin seed products, white chocolates, and dried blueberries or apples.
Pile it right into a cup and layer with greek yogurt and fruit. Absolutely healthy.
3 1/2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup canned pumpkin
bananas or other fresh fruit of choice
To create granola:
Preheat oven to 325°F. Collection a cooking sheet with parchment paper.
In a big bowl, mix collectively oats, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and sodium. Add cranberries, raisins, pecans and almonds to dish. Stir to combine.
In a medium bowl, whisk jointly maple syrup, vanilla, pumpkin and apple sauce until well combined.
Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir until equally coated. Spread granola within a slim layer over baking sheet. Sprinkle coconut on top.
To make parfaits:
Slice 1 banana and reserve. Place 1/2 cup of greek yogurt in glass. Best yogurt with 1/4 glass of granola. Add a handful of banana slices. Place another 1/4 glass granola together with bananas. Add a tablespoon or two of yogurt together with granola. Sprinkle a bit more granola at the top and add even more bananas. Drizzle honey at the top if desired.
Repeat for every parfait you intend to make.
Store granola in airtight pot.
Enjoy your new favorite breakfast!
Monique Volz