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Fresh Cherry Grain-free Granola recipe. Pureed fresh cherries and honey mixed into shredded coconut, sliced almonds, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, hemp seeds, and almond flour.

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Cherry season is the absolute best. I have been putting cherries IN and ON practically everything! And because of that, I have quite a few new recipes to show for it. 🙂

Like this Fresh Cherry Grain-free Granola recipe. It has quickly become my new favorite way to make granola because it involves using FRESH cherries. That’s right. There is no dried fruit in this granola!

Pureed fresh cherries and honey are mixed into shredded coconut, sliced almonds, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, hemp seeds, and a bit of almond flour. It’s Paleo, grain-free, gluten-free magic.

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I am super excited about the role of fresh cherries in this recipe!

Why? Well normally, dried fruit is added to granola part way through baking… but I find that this actually make dried fruit even harder… so you end up biting hard pieces that make you think you just chipped your tooth!

Like why would I want to eat a hard raisin? haha

And sometimes dried fruit can be added after the rest of the granola has baked but this reminds me more of muesli and less of granola.

Ingredients needed to make this Fresh Cherry Grain-free Granola:

  • shredded coconut
  • sliced almonds
  • pumpkin seeds
  • chia seeds
  • hemp seeds
  • almond flour
  • cinnamon 
  • honey
  • cherries
  • vanilla
  • olive oil
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How to make this Fresh Cherry Grain-free Granola:

I pitted a bunch of beautiful summer cherries and put them into a food processor. I made a puree of sorts, but it was still a bit chunky, with some larger pieces.

Then I mixed the pureed cherries with honey, olive oil and vanilla and heated it up on the stove for about a minute.

After that, I mixed the cherry mixture into a big bowl of shredded coconut, sliced almonds, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, hemp seeds, almond flour, and cinnamon.

Soooo much goodness in a bowl!

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I spread this mixture onto a large cookie sheet and baked everything at 300 degrees F for 30 minutes. I mixed everything half way through and then removed it after 30 minutes.

At 30 minutes you might think this granola isn’t done yet, because it’s still a bit wet/damp. But do not worry. If you mix it and then leave it out for 10 minutes everything hardens so well!

I made the mistake of thinking that this granola needed more time to bake and then cooking it for an extra 10 minutes and this realllllllllly toasted the granola. Too much for me, though I had some test tasters say they liked it toasted.

So if after the 10 minute waiting period, you decide you want to toast it more, go for it. 🙂

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Anyways, once the granola hardens, you’ll notice that the chunks of cherries in the granola have turned into dried fruit. But it’s not hard, it’s actually quite soft!

And the cherry juices infuse into the rest of the granola, giving a nice subtle cherry taste to everything.

It’s soooo yummy and soooo perfect for cherry season. Well, it’s perfect for summer really because I kind of think everything should have a nice subtle cherry taste to it in the summer.

How else would you know it’s summer?! (Besides the weather haha)

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I’ve been adding almond milk to this Fresh Cherry Grain-free Granola and eating it for breakfast.

It also tastes ridiculously good on top of ice-cream or yogurt.

Hope you guys love it! Let me know how it turns out for you. 🙂

Other granola recipes you may enjoy:

Gluten-free Chia-Almond Granola

Paleo Strawberry Almond Granola (GF)

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5 from 4 votes

Fresh Cherry Grain-free Granola {Paleo, GF}

Servings: 8
Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 30 minutes
Total: 40 minutes
Fresh Cherry Grain-free Granola {Paleo, GF} | Perchance to Cook, www.perchancetocook.com
Pureed fresh cherries and honey mixed into shredded coconut, sliced almonds, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, hemp seeds, and almond flour… Paleo, Grain-free, Gluten-free magic!

Ingredients 

Instructions 

  • Preheat oven to 300°F. Line a baking cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  • Mix shredded coconut, almonds, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, hemp seeds, almond flour and cinnamon together in a large bowl.
  • Put honey, pureed cherries, vanilla, and olive oil in a small pot and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the mixture is hot, has dissolved into the mixture, about 1 minute. 
  • Pour the honey cherry liquid mixture on top of the coconut granola mixture and stir to combine.
  • Spread the mixture evenly on the cookie sheet and bake, stirring once halfway through, until a bit crispy on the edges, about 30 minutes. 
  • Mix and let the mixture sit for 10 minutes in the pan when out of the oven and it will harden during this time. If after 10 minutes, you would like the granola to be a bit more toasted put it back in the oven for no more than 10 minutes, but make sure to keep an eye on it.

Nutrition

Calories: 404kcalCarbohydrates: 25gProtein: 12gFat: 31gSaturated Fat: 9gPolyunsaturated Fat: 8gMonounsaturated Fat: 10gTrans Fat: 0.01gSodium: 7mgPotassium: 304mgFiber: 8gSugar: 15gVitamin A: 43IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 113mgIron: 3mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
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28 Comments

  1. It’s cherry season – so excited to make this as I bought a huge bag on sale! I love this combo!

  2. I never tried make homemade granola before but I love the combination of coconut , almonds and cherries! I think I am gonna have to give it a try as the recepie sound easy and delicious!