Nut-free granola
- Age: 2–3 years (Little cook)
- Texture: Finger food
- Prep: 6 min
- Cook: 25 min
- Makes: 1 jar
Ingredients
- 200 g porridge oats
- 3 tbsp sunflower seeds
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp apple purée
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 3 tbsp raisins, chopped
Contains: Wheat
Method
- Your child stirs the oats, seeds, oil, apple purée and cinnamon together.
- Spread on a tray and bake at 160 °C for 25 minutes, stirring once, until golden. Stir in the raisins and cool.
- Serve with yoghurt and fruit.
Safety: Raisins chopped. No nuts; sunflower seeds are small and soft when baked. Whole grapes, cherry tomatoes and blueberries are quartered lengthways until at least four. Whole nuts wait until five.
Storage: Airtight jar 2 weeks.
Tip: Jobs for small hands: stirring. Granola with no sugar and no nuts, so it can go to nursery.
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