The Best Chunky Peanut Butter Granola (Oil-Free)

If you are a lover of crunchy granola clusters then this chunky peanut butter granola is for you! It's loaded with flavour and satisfying crunch!

Oil-free
Ready in 30 minutes
And half the price of store-bought granola

Ingredients

Most granola recipes suggest using only large flake rolled oats but I actually prefer a combination of rolled oats and quick cooking oats for this granola. That said, this recipe will work just as well using all rolled oats OR all quick cooking oats!

Besides the oats, I like to pack this granola with flavour:

• Shredded coconut
• Sliced almonds
• Dried Cranberries
• Pumpkin Seeds
• Chia Seeds
• And ground cinnamon

The almonds and seeds add a little boost of protein to this snack and the different flavours and textures make every bite interesting.

If you are new to making homemade snacks, take a look at my Pantry Tips page. I find it so helpful to keep these pantry staples on hand for snacks like this chunky peanut butter granola. It's tempting to buy store-bought snacks for the convenience but if you want to save money at the grocery store, this is a great way to do so!

Wet Ingredients

To keep this recipe oil-free, I use the following ingredients to bind this granola into crunchy clusters!

• Peanut butter
• And maple syrup

Feel free to substitute another nut butter for the peanut butter or use another liquid sweetener.

If having a clustery granola is not your goal then feel free to reduce the amount of nut butter and maple syrup I use. If you do want those big clusters though, using any less then the amounts I have listed won't provide quite as much binding power.

Take a look at the notes in my recipe card for some more options if you're looking for alternatives to these two binders.

Baking The Chunky Peanut Butter Granola

Preparing this chunky peanut butter granola is as easy as mixing the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients.

All that's left is to bake it. And for that:

1. Spread the granola on a lined baking sheet and pat it down as much as you can, making sure all the granola is touching.
   • Keeping the granola in a solid mass will ensure that it clumps together as it bakes.
2. Bake at 350 F for 10 minutes.
3. Give it a stir so all the granola will brown evenly, and pat it back down into a thin rectangle with all the pieces touching.
4. Bake for an additional 10 minutes until fragrant and golden.
5. Remove from the oven and DON'T STIR the granola! Let it cool completely on the baking sheet. This is the key to getting clustery granola! Once the granola is completely cooled, you can break it apart and store it!

Recipe Cost

This chunky peanut butter granola recipe makes 550 grams and costs me under $4.50 CAD.

At roughly $0.80/100g this homemade granola is about half the cost of the store-bought granola options available to me which average $1.60/100g.

Before I started making my own homemade snacks, I never would have thought I would be saving as much as I do. It always seemed like buying all the individual ingredients would add up to more in the end. But once I started keeping track of my recipe costs and comparing them with the store-bought options, I saw the true extent of the savings.

And having all of these pantry ingredients on hand has meant that I can be creative and make something new whenever I feel like it!

Make sure to let me know in the comments below how you like this oil-free peanut butter granola!

These Puffed Rice Granola Bars use many of the same ingredients and so do these Banana Oat Breakfast Cookies!

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