Chocolate and Peanut Granola

ValerieL :)

I love this recipe and make it every few weeks and store it in a cereal-sized Tupperware container. My boyfriend likes crunchy, chunky cereals, especially granola, but he finds all the store bought ones far too sweet. The sugar content in many of them are almost as bad as a can of soda. Since he eats it with flavoured yoghurt, which is already sweet, I've never had any complaints of not enough chocolate/sugar. I believe more sugar would make it easier to burn anyway.<br /><br />I don't change this recipe much, I only substitute chopped almonds and cashews and leave out the salt. I get the rice syrup from a co-op health food store which charges around $2/lb so it doesn't break the bank. I also bake it in a smaller tray than I maybe should - I've found that when you lay it on a bit thick (an inch or so; you wouldn't need multiple trays), it tends to stick together more but takes longer to get crispy, maybe just over an hour. It won't come out of the oven super crispy, but it will as it cools.