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It takes just 5 minutes to prep this soft, delicious peanut butter granola. No baking required!
Peanut Butter Granola (No Bake)
Ingredients
- 2 cups rolled or instant oats
- 1/2 cup peanut butter or almond butter
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 3 Tbsp honey
- 1 Tbsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp salt
Instructions
- Line an 8×8 pan with parchment paper
- Mix ingredients in medium bowl and pour into pan. Press down with spatula. Let chill in refridgerater for 2 or more hours, covered.
- After chilled, remove parchment paper with granola and start slicing into small squares. Granola will crumble as you slice. Pour into air tight container or bag and refrigerate for up to 1 week.
Delicious Parfaits Here We Come
This peanut butter granola pairs oh so well with some nice yogurt of choice and fruit (I love berries in mine)! Have you ever put together a yogurt parfait and just weren’t feeling the extra crunchy granola? This stuff hits the spot. I tend to like a more soft granola, I can never find many options in the store. Since it only takes 5 minutes to throw together, the Soft Peanut Butter Granola recipe is a good alternative.
Chill Time
Before cutting up/crumbling the granola, make sure to refrigerate for about 2 hours (or more) covered to solidify some of those bigger pieces!
Other Uses for Soft Peanut Butter Granola
It can also be a great snack on it’s own, sort of eaten like a trail mix. I have it pictured in bars below, but that is mostly so we can crumble it more easily. You can eat it as a bar, but it will be a little messy!
I’ve also been told it’s a great cereal with milk sort of option (though it will get soggy in milk sooner than crunchy granola).
Why is the Recipe First?
I’m glad you asked! I know it can get overwhelming to be excited about a recipe, then have to scroll through a seemingly never-ending life story before finally finding the recipe. I started to notice it becoming a difficulty for some of my nutrition counseling clients. So that’s why I’ve created No Guilt Nutrition Recipes – a place where finding the actual recipe isn’t so difficult or cumbersome. Usually the recipe is hidden in a blog post or you have to pay a subscription to see the recipe quickly, but here you’ll find it first on the page!
Why Do You Call Your Recipes “Intuitive Eating Recipes”?
No Guilt Nutrition recipes are definitely not the only thing you can eat if you are eating intuitively (really, you can eat anything that you want/feels good to your body!), but I noticed there are way too many diet culture entrenched recipes out there. These recipes give you good food without potentially triggering numbers or diet talk. They also provide a gentle nutrition approach by encouraging balance in your meals without having strict requirements for what that may look like for you as an individual.
