Easy Homemade Muesli

Packed with toasted oats, and your choices of nuts, seeds and dried fruit, this super easy homemade muesli recipe is quick and simple to make. It’s also so much cheaper than buying muesli – plus you get to add exactly what muesli ingredients you like (and leave out those you don’t like!)

In the summer I love Swiss bircher muesli or refreshing raspberry Bircher. But you can’t beat a homemade granola recipe, or this simple toasted muesli without sugar for breakfast throughout the whole year.

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• Why we love this recipe
• Ingredients notes and substitutions
• How to make this muesli recipe
• FAQ
• My recipe tips
• Use the oven when it’s cooling or been on to cook something else.
• Add More Oats or more oats and seeds
• Storage
• Variations
• Serving Ideas
• More easy breakfast recipes
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Why we love this recipe

• Making homemade muesli is much cheaper than buying it. You can really make it a budget breakfast – oats are an economical ingredient, and you can add the add ins which suit your budget.
• This is a sugar free muesli – it really doesn’t need any added sugar as the dried fruit adds all the sweetness you need. If you are making a nut and seed muesli without dried fruit then it is a completely no sugar muesli!
• Quick and easy recipe – takes 15 minutes to make, whip a batch up at the weekend and you have breakfast sorted for the next week. It is such a versatile recipe, you can play around with quantities and ratios to achieve the best muesli for you.
• Toasting the oats not only adds a lovely flavour and makes them slightly chewy, but also makes them easier to eat, stopping them from turning thick and heavy when mixed with milk.
• You can easily vary and alter this muesli recipe to suit your family’s tastes, or what ingredients you have in the cupboard. When you make your own muesli, you get to decide exactly what you want in it: lots of nuts, no nuts, different dried fruit. I used to make this for my young toddler son, leaving out the nuts, then as he’s got older adding chopped nuts.
• This recipe is vegan and, as long as your oats are gluten free, it is gluten free too.

Ingredients notes and substitutions

• Oats – after testing I have found that using a mixture of porridge oats / quick oats and rolled oats or jumbo oats makes the best muesli. However you can use which you prefer and suits your budget.
• Nuts – I often use almonds or cashews as they are cheaper nuts, but walnuts, pecans or hazelnuts would be delicious too. (Muesli is a useful recipe for using up the odds and ends in packets of nuts to save them going rancid.)
• Seeds – seeds add flavour and are great if you want a nut free muesli, and are also cheaper than nuts. I like to use pumpkin seeds (pepitas) and raw sunflower seeds.
• Dried fruit – sultanas or raisins are good for adding sweetness. You can use chopped dried apricots or dried figs or dates too.

How to make this muesli recipe

1. Preheat the oven and roughly chop the almonds.
2. Sprinkle the quick cook oats over a baking tray in an even layer and place in to the preheated oven for 3 minutes.
   1. TIP: You don’t need to line the tray.
   2. TIP: The oats should smell ‘oaty’ after 3 minutes in the oven. You want to remove them before they start to get any colour.

3. Take the tray out of the oven, stir the oats, then sprinkle over the chopped almonds, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds. Place back in the oven and cook for 5 minutes.
4. When cold, stir in the chia seeds and sultanas or raisins.

5. Store in an airtight jar or container for up to 3 weeks.

FAQ

My recipe tips

• Roughly chop the almonds to make them easier to eat, otherwise you can end up with a mouthful of almonds that take a long time to chew. Plus it helps spread the nuts throughout the muesli so you can get away with slightly less nuts.
• You don’t want the oats to become too dark in colour as this will change their taste and make them tough to eat.

Storage

Store in an airtight container such as a Tupperware, or plastic container with lid. You can also store muesli in a glass jar.

Variations

• Nut Free muesli: Leave out the nuts and add some more seeds.
• Fruit free muesli: Replace the fruit with extra nuts and seeds.
• Other add ins: chocolate chips, dried apple, blueberries, or cranberries.
• Coconut: coconut flakes or desiccated coconut is delicious in this muesli too! Sprinkle the coconut in about 2 minutes before the end of the cooking time – it only takes a minute or two to toast. Stir halfway through to ensure even cooking.
• Sweeter – if you like a sweeter breakfast, serve with a drizzle of honey or maple syrup.

Serving Ideas

• Take a jar of muesli in to work and top with milk before eating – the perfect portable breakfast!
• I love it with some fresh berries in the summer, and stewed pears in Autumn / winter.
• A spoonful of Greek yogurt and berry compote.
• For a vegan / dairy free breakfast – pour over dairy free milk such as unsweetened almond milk.
• Sprinkle it on top of yogurt for a healthy snack.
• Add a couple of handfuls of muesli to a crumble topping.

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