Home-made granola

I recently told you about my love of breakfast. While during the week I quickly gobble up a bowl of industrial cereals (not fantastic, let's be honest), I love to shake up my routine and treat myself to a little kiff at the weekend. So, after porridge, I wanted to try out another breakfast recipe that's popping up all over the blogosphere: homemade granola. Strangely enough, I had this idea that it was going to be complicated, but in fact it wasn't at all (yes, I can sometimes spend 4 hours on a cake, but I freak out at the idea of preparing a cereal mix, don't look now...). In the end, the most time-consuming part is deciding what to put in it! Granola, then, is a mixture of oven-baked oat flakes topped with whatever you fancy: walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, dried fruit, chocolate, fresh fruit... Everyone has their own recipe and can add whatever they like, which is a concept I love. Depending on your mood and what's left in the fridge/ cupboard, you can twist the base to your liking. As you can see from the photo, I added hazelnuts and almonds to mine. I started with a basic recipe from Clotilde of the lovely blog Chocolate and Zucchini (who did manage to get me to read a recipe with "gluten-free" in the title, which was no easy feat). There's nothing complicated or tricky about it: just mix all the ingredients together and bake in the oven for around 30 minutes. Clotilde uses fleur de sel in her recipe and I did too, but as I'm not a fan of sweet and sour, I'll do without it next time. Otherwise, the recipe is perfect. I added dark chocolate once and fresh banana another time, so I'll try red fruit next time.