Sawaddee ka welcome to hot thai kitchen so a while back i shared with you a recipe from my favorite granola
and many of you have made it and have reported back happily so i'm super happy to hear about that
but today i've got one more for you and this is new and this has become our new favorite one
in my family and this one is thai inspired yes so the idea of this came from a thai
snack called grayasat which is basically our version of a chewy sticky granola bar except
instead of oats we use puffed rice so i thought what if i use the flavor of kriyasan and apply
it to the western granola using oatmeal how would that work i tried it out and it worked
out so well and i thought i have to share this with you guys it's so good all right let's get
started first let's make the syrup for our oats so i've got here some thai palm sugar that i've
chopped but you can also just use light brown sugar if you want but the palm sugar if you
have it really adds a nice thai flavor to this granola and that's going into our pot right here
and now a little bit of coconut milk and instead of using regular neutral flavored
oil that i normally use in my granola i'm going to add virgin coconut oil and you want to use
virgin coconut oil not refined coconut oil because refined coconut oil has no flavor in it so that's
good for cooking when you don't want the coconut flavor but now we definitely do and a little bit
of salt to balance out all that sweetness and i'm just gonna bring this to a simmer
and i'm gonna cook this just until the sugar is completely dissolved
okay so it really does not need to be boiling like this but this stove is so strong it doesn't
do low heat very well but it's okay that it does it's just hard when it's foaming so much to see
whether the sugar has been dissolved so i just want to keep checking that there's no more
lumps of sugar yeah i think we're good there all right i'm going to turn that off that smell
ah reminds me of thai grilled bananas and they basically grill thai bananas and then pour a
syrup of palm sugar and coconut over it's one of my favorite things and this just smells so
much like that very nice oh so that is our syrup how simple is that now key ingredient in this
recipe sesame seeds i'm going to add both black and white sesame seeds you can just add one but
if you only add white you won't really be able to see them at the end because they'll just kind of
blend in with everything else so i like a little bit of black make sure you toast these first so
that they are aromatic just in a dry saute pan until they start to pop and smoke a little bit and
become really aromatic you can tell it'll smell really good now if i throw the sesame into the
cooked granola what's going to happen is they're not going to stick they're going to just like fall
to the bottom of the bag right so you don't want to do that what you want to do is add them to the
syrup and the syrup will help the sesame seeds stick to the oats at the end and you want to
do this to any small thing that you want to add to granola granola is very flexible you can add
chia seeds whatever little seeds you want right but if they're really small you want to put them
in the syrup all right so that's it now let's get the oats so i've got some regular rolled oats here
but quick oats if that's what you already have for your oatmeal that'll work as well quick oats
will actually be a little bit more crisp and delicate where these will have a firmer crunch
so whatever you want now pour the syrup all over the oats oh yes so good now you want to quickly
mix that in you don't want the syrup to cool down otherwise they'll have a hard time sort of
being distributed at this point you might be tempted to add cinnamon add vanilla and
whatever spices you want but i'm telling you if you want to experience the pure flavor of kriyasat
don't add anything don't add cinnamon don't add anything just the flavor of palm sugar and coconut
and sesame is what you want to shine in this okay oh that looks so good that looks so good
you want to spread it out onto a baking sheet that's been lined with either silicone pad or
parchment paper and you want to get it as evenly spread out as possible
and i like to actually make a hole in the middle just for more even baking because i find
that it'll bake evenly around the edge and there's always a patch in the middle that's not quite as
cooked so if i just don't put anything there then i don't have to deal with that problem
so this is going to go into a 325 degree oven for about 30 to 35 minutes and you want to stir it
halfway through to make sure everything is evenly distributed so it's only been halfway through so
it does not look like much has happened but you want to give them a stir and redistribute anyway
to make sure you have an even even cooking so i just bring the outside in to a pile
and then sort of like redistribute from there and you want these as thinly spread
out as possible so they cook faster all right back into the oven for another 15 minutes or
really at this point however long it's gonna take until these become a little bit darker and crispy
so while the granola is baking i wanna talk you through our add-ins so when it comes to granola
you can add whatever dried fruits or nuts you want but if you want the thai flavor a couple
things that you want to have first and i would say the most important is toasted coconut so i've got
these flakes right here which i like the look of also moska yasad uses this shape of coconuts
so it's a little bit more reminiscent but you can also just use the shredded finely shredded coconut
but if you use those again you want to add it to the syrup with the sesame seeds otherwise they're
not going to stick will just fall out to the bottom and i just toasted this in a dry saute pan
until they're nice and dark none of that's blonde golden coconut okay golden coconut has no flavor
you want dark brown toasted like this okay now for a true grayasat flavor you also want to have
some peanuts i've got here some roasted peanuts i leave them in the skins because just you know
nice pops of color that way but they definitely don't have to be in the skin again i roasted these
in the oven just for about 20 minutes at 350. if you're allergic to peanuts cashews will work as
well cashew is the other thai nut i suppose and in addition to that i'm also going to throw in
some pumpkin seeds because i like the green that pumpkin seeds add to granola so that's just an
aesthetic thing you don't have to add it now when it comes to dried fruit i want to add a thai
dried fruit that i just recently got a hold of and that is dried longans yes so these are thai dried
longans and lankans are the sweet juicy super fragrant fruit and the dried version is to me just
as delicious as the fresh one you can actually buy the chinese dried lankans at most big asian
supermarkets you want to choose ones that are dried out of the shell because you can also buy
whole dried lungs that's not what we want and you want to pick ones that are lighter in color more
golden those are fresher as they become older and over they do get darker a little bit so just go
for the lighter ones if you want to buy thai dried longans you can get them on amazon if you're in
the us so i'll put a link to that maybe if i can find it and then i'm also going to add some tart
cranberries just because the these are not thai obviously but because the lankans are super sweet
a little bit tartness is a nice contrast look at this the color has darkened and you want to make
sure that it's crispy so if i take the end here you can obviously see this is crispy right but
when it first comes out of the oven it's not going to be crispy because it's hot so you can only
check for crispness after it's cooled down so if you're not sure you can always take a little bit
and blow on it really quickly to check if it's crispy or not but i find that if the color has
darkened significantly visibly chances are it's already crispy look ah so good so good
so good not too sweet it has that iconic
three assad flavor and it's even going to taste more like a yasad once we add our coconut okay
so this has cooled i'm just gonna add it all to my mixing bowl what you want some
adam cannot wait i'm just gonna take all of this stuck together now don't worry
we'll break it up in the bowl
yes listen to the sound of crispiness now this is enough i mean you can just put this in a
container and just snack on it but to make it complete we've got to add all our other stuff
we just want to break the big chunks down a little bit it's a little more manageable
in goes our coconut the most important thing some peanuts
and some cashews why not it looks like a bit much
pumpkin seeds and of course the star of the show some dried longans
and when it comes to granola you can add as much or as little of the fruits and nuts as you want
it's completely up to you it doesn't affect the recipe at all there we go give it a nice toss
a bigger bowl would be nice
how pretty is this so now i want to do a final taste with all the little components
i want to make sure i get some peanuts in there some definitely some coconut
in there i got a long end maybe a
cranberry
it's a little bit it's kind of surreal actually like because you know in my head i'm eating it and
as the flavors come like oh my god this tastes exactly like assad but at the same time it's
different you know like same same but different because it's oatmeal and there's other stuff in
it but it's so good it's such a unique flavor the coconut the palm sugar and it's a simple
combination that really produces a unique tasting granola this will go great on yogurt you can eat
it on its own you can top ice cream with it you can put it on top of muffins and then bake i mean
there's so many different uses for granola most of the time i eat it with yogurt or just on its own
just like that and that is it i hope you give this a try and i hope you really enjoy it let me know
what you think once you've made it and the recipe as always will be on hotthaikitchen.com and if
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i will see you next time for your next delicious thai meal did you see that fell out of my mouth