It always feels like I am on the eternal quest to find the perfect granola. A granola that has just the right amount of clumps, not too many ingredients, and works well from yogurt parfaits to a crunchy salad topping. It's a lot to ask from a granola and while I've yet to reach that granola perfection, this clumpy granola recipe comes close. This recipe comes from Lindsey Love's (Dolly and Oatmeal) new cookbook: Chickpea Flour Does It All. Which as you can guess, contains all recipes that use chickpea flour in some facet. For this granola, the chickpea flour acts as a binding agent, creating the perfect clumpy granola. I loved this technique so much that I updated my minimal 5-ingredient granola to use a bit of oat flour. I'll never go back to using a granola recipe that requires eggs!
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Recipe from Chickpea Flour Does It All: Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Vegetarian Recipes for Every Taste and Season ©Lindsey S. Love, 2016. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, The Experiment. Available wherever books are sold. theexperimentpublishing.com
As mentioned above, Lindsey's book spans recipes from every meal through every season. It's one of the more creative cookbooks that's landed on my desk recently and I feel really inspired to try a few new techniques. If you've never really played around with chickpea flour before but want to, I highly recommend this cookbook. Plus, chickpea flour is a flour you can grind at home- either through a flour mill or even a high-powered blender (loud and needs sifting- but it works!) A few other recipes from this cookbook:
Herb and Garlic Vegetarian Crumble
Chickpea Flour Pizza with Asparagus
Chickpea Flour Matzo Ball Soup
Oooh this is like, my dream breakfast recipe! Soooo good!
Mmmm, that stewed rhubarb sounds divine! I've been meaning to try my hand at homemade granola and this looks like the perfect recipe!
Looks like the most awesomest start of the day!
Your pictures are just beautiful! Everything looks delicious!
I haven't been on the site in a while but I'm loving the new look! And this clumpy granola with stewed rhubarb sounds like the best spring breakfast ever <3
I am a granola junkie. I have one with almond butter, honey, quinoa, and olive oil that I love. I make it all the time and had some this morning with a smoothie. It's the best! This is my recipe http://piesandplots.net/almond-butter-granola/. I just swap the vegetable oil for olive oil most time. This last time I used pumpkin seeds and pecans as the nuts. Amazing! I've also made it with millet instead of quinoa.
This looks so delicious and healthy! My mom used to make Rhubarb pie all the time, so I love Rhubarb and this dish looks especially yummy without all the calories.
i'm so glad you enjoyed this recipe, erin! it was such a revelation finding out that there was no need for egg whites to make granola more clumpy! thank you so much for all your support! xoxo