Usual disclaimer: If your teeth are delicate, and if any of them are porcelain, they might need a more consistent tender texture in the finished product. My groatnola came out with a few random tiny harder bits after baking. The fault might be in my cooking technique. I would need to soften this by cooking it in with oatmeal, which kind-o defeats the purpose of granola.
Still, it's a nice recipe -- a ready to eat granola with no salt, no sweetener, and no oil. It's wholesome and filling with pleasant-tasting groatiness, and a good unique use of the ingredients. One can make a batch and keep it in the fridge or freezer, to sprinkle in while you're cooking porridge.
For the YouTube video, search for "Dr. Greger in the Kitchen: Groatnola." He's a much more entertaining as a performer than I am as a recipe reporter, and his presentation is fun to watch. (The burpee joke referred to his other clip "Dr. Greger in the Kitchen: My New Favorite Beverage." In that clip he powers through 10 burpees on the floor while waiting for the blender to spin out the beverage.)
So okay. I steamed, mashed, and peeled the sweet potatoes. I soaked the raw buckwheat groats for a few hours, then drained and cooked them soft. Then I mashed the two together with a good dose of vanilla and (my own notion) a little teaspoon of coconut oil. I used a smaller amount of rolled oats than the ratio shown in the video, mixing it first with cinnamon and cloves. Then I mixed and kneaded all the ingredients together and spread it on parchment paper on cookie sheets. In the oven that baked at 250 F for two hours plus the half hour it took for the oven to cool. My mixture was softer than Dr. Greger's, a little more chewy than flaky.
Dogs: As Dr. Greger points out, you can feed this to dogs first, and then add the spices later. It's easy to see that dogs would like this. Of course, dogs are a good sport about food in general. We needn't name the many other things that dogs enjoy putting in their mouths. But of course Angelina is getting a sample for her own snack and a taste test for Super Pup and Bingo. They prolly won't mind a little spice. (Last week, the doggos were very enthusiastic about my soaked & sprouted & boiled & roasted chickpeas. Maybe that's just because there was Bragg's Aminos sauce on them. Maybe the dogs were crawling all over me not for my cooking but only to get at the salt.)
I'm eating a bowlful right now with rice milk and blueberries. This has a pleasant gently subtle sweetness, and makes a nice cereal.
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