What are you guys talking about. I eat my spent grain! It's delicious! My wife is extremely resourceful.
Spent Grain Granola (low fat version)
158 calories per 1/2 cup
Tasty and chewy
3 cups of spent grain from brewing beer (i.e., used malted barley)
2 cups of dry oatmeal (not quick cooking kind, just regular oats)
1/2 cup of wheat germ
1 oz. chopped walnuts
1 1/2 oz. sliced almonds
1/2 cup sucanat
2/3 cup honey
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1/2 cup of applesauce
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon blackstrap molasses
salt to taste
1/2 cup raisins
24 dried apricots (cut into small pieces)
1) Preheat oven to 350°F.
2) Mix the following: (spent grain, dry oatmeal, wheat germ, chopped walnuts, sliced almonds)
3) In a sauce pan, heat the sucanat, honey, vanilla extract, applesauce, olive oil, molasses until it's all well combined and the sucanat is melted.
4) Add the sugar mixture from step 3 to the dry ingedients.
5) Spread into a thin layer onto two large cookie sheets.
6) Apply a sprinkle of salt over the ingredients on the cookie sheets.
7) Place coookie sheets on racks in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
8) Remove the cookie sheets and stir the granola on the sheets.
9) Place back in oven on reversed oven racks (the sheet that was on the bottom rack place on the top rack).
10) Bake for another 20 minutes.
11) Remove the cookie sheets and stir the granola on the cookie sheets again as in step 8.
12) Place back in oven on reversed oven racks and bake for another 10 minutes (for a total baking time of 50 minutes) Note: if you want the granola more crunchy bake longer.
13) Remove sheets from oven and cool to room temperature.
14) In bowl, mix granola with raisin and apricots (or any other fruit of your choosing).
15) Store the granola in an airtight container.
Add other fruits and nuts that you might like. Can be made crunchy by baking it longer but I like it chewy. Try it!
LOL! just kidding, he has a compost pile and he asked me to dump my spent grains in there
