As much as I love to cook and experiment with food I actually do not get bored of food easily. When I find something I like I stick with it and I am not apt to become adventurous. In fact, believe it or not, I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch every school day of my life for 6 years. No deviation. I didn’t like lunchmeat and I sure as anything wasn’t going to eat a school lunch so that is what I had. Every day.
When I began AIP last November I started out making breakfast stir-fry like my sweet potato apple and turkey stir-fry and I loved it. It filled me up, it gave me energy, I was satisfied, why change? So, here is a confession, until about two weeks ago I ate that breakfast stir-fry ( or one very similar) every morning, for six months. I suppose that is a bad thing for a food blogger to admit. However, a few weeks ago I woke up one morning and I just had no desire to cook or eat that stir-fry. In fact, if someone had handed me a sweet potato right then I probably would have chucked it at them. I was done. So, I started experimenting with some new breakfast ideas, looking up so inspirational recipes online, and I decided I wanted to try and make a cereal. Summer has arrived and it was time for something lighter.
This coconut cereal is super easy and simple. It is also really versatile. It is great with any fruit added and it is great with or without coconut milk, in fact I might even prefer it without milk because it seems more like a granola type concept. For this recipe you will need larger flakes of coconut I like this
brand or this
brand. No matter which way you want it this recipe is a great base for some summertime breakfast inspiration. We’ll see if this lasts me another six months 😉
- 1.5-2 lbs of coconut flakes
- ½ cup of water
- 1 TBS Cinnamon
- 1 TBS of Honey
- Pre-heat oven to 300 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl combine water cinnamon and honey.
- Add in your coconut flakes and toss them until thoroughly coated in the cinnamon mixture.
- Spread coconut flakes in a single layer across three lined cookie sheets, making sure there are no clumps.
- Then bake for ten minutes.
- After ten minutes take them out and stir them around.
- Bake for another 10 minutes, or until they are just starting to turn golden.
- Remove from the oven and allow them to cool.
- Store in a sealed container in the refrigerator for about a week.
- I really like adding fruit and eating with or without coconut milk.
- The flakes also make a great base for an AIP granola.
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AIP cereal! You are a goddess. Would you mind sharing it at this week’s Paleo AIP Recipe Roundtable? Just click the blue button at the bottom of this post to link up (readers will be directed back to your blog to read the recipe). http://www.phoenixhelix.com/2014/06/04/paleo-aip-recipe-roundtable-29/
Hey Eileen, I would love to share it at the round up! Thank you so much for stopping by my blog. I absolutely love your blog, so I am really flattered that you found mine.
Your cereal was a reader favorite, and I’ve featured it on this week’s roundtable. Thanks so much for linking up, and if you have any other AIP-friendly recipes, I hope you’ll join us again. 🙂
Thanks! I definitely will add some of my other recipes 🙂
do you think it would work to use maple syrup for this instead of the honey?
I think maple syrup would definitely work and probably be downright delicious!
Is this recipe sweet or just a hint of sweetness? If I wanted to use coconut sugar how much should I use?
This recipe only has a slight hint of sweetness. I would not recommend using coconut sugar because it won’t coat the coconut flakes, you really need a liquid like honey or maple syrup.
This looked amazing and I just tried it, but 20 minutes total was WAY too long, my coconut granola was burned. I will try it again but I just wanted to confirm if others had used that cooking time?
Hi! Looks and sounds yummy! What is the 1/2 cup of water for?
to keep the flakes from burning and to help the honey and cinnamon stick all over.
What are three lines cookie sheets?
Thank you.
lined cookie sheets, I apologize for the typo
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