Start your day on a healthy note with this delicious Homemade No Bake Granola (without Sugar) breakfast cereal.
Made with hearty oats, crunchy nuts, dried fruits and honey, this wholesome cereal is a perfect refined sugar-free alternative to traditional boxed options. Quick to prepare and fully customizable, this no-bake recipe delivers all the crunch and flavor you love—without the guilt.
This granola, also known as pan granola or skillet granola, is made in a pan or skillet. It is also very easy to make, and you can customize it to your own taste.
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Why Make No Bake Granola Recipe
- This recipe doesn’t require an oven, making it perfect for those without oven access.
- Typically takes less than 30 minutes to prepare.
- You can customize it: use natural sweeteners (like honey, maple syrup), avoid preservatives, and add your favorite nuts, seeds, or dried fruits.
- You can also make small, easy-to-carry breakfast or snack bars that you can store.
Ingredients for Quick Stovetop Granola
As I mentioned earlier, the granola contains grains, varieties of nuts, seeds, dried fruits, sweetener, and oil or butter. Predominantly, oats are used in granola and sometimes wheat flakes, barley flakes, cornflakes, etc. are also used as grains.
You can use any nuts or mixed nuts of your choice. People normally use almonds, walnuts, pecans, etc. in their granola.
There are varieties of dry fruits including golden & black raisins, berries (blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, etc.), dried kiwi, etc. or any dried fruits of your choice can be added to granola.
Similarly, different types of seeds including pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, melon seeds, etc. can be part of your granola.
Any sweetener especially honey and maple syrup are used in granola.
Butter or oil is also used while cooking granola.
Apart from the above ingredients many add certain fun ingredients including Choco chips, M&M etc. to make their granola more interesting. Many add sea salt or spice like cinnamon to add a different taste to their granola.
Step-by-step Making of No Bake Granola
Making your own granola at home gives you complete control over the ingredients, allowing you to create a version that is truly sugar-free. Follow the below instructions and learn to make granola without sugar.
Start by dry roasting the almonds until fragrant, then slice them finely and set aside.
In a small bowl, melt the butter and stir in the honey to create a smooth mixture.
Separately, dry roast the rolled oats and sunflower seeds in a pan over medium heat until they turn lightly golden and aromatic.
Once toasted, pour the honey-butter mixture over the oats and seeds. Stir thoroughly to ensure everything is evenly coated.
This homemade no-bake granola contains no added refined sugar—I have used honey as the natural sweetener.
Continue cooking on low heat for 2 to 3 minutes, allowing the mixture to turn a rich golden brown.
Turn off the heat and let the mixture cool slightly. As it cools, it will begin to clump together—gently break it apart with your fingers into bite-sized clusters.
Finally, add the chopped roasted almonds and your choice of dried fruits, mixing well to combine.
Pour your granola into an airtight container, and just like that, your crunchy, wholesome stovetop granola is ready to enjoy!
How to use Granola?
This is a common question people often ask that how to eat granola or how do I use granola. Here I am sharing various ways to eat granola:
1. Breakfast: Granola is a great breakfast option. You can add yogurt or milk to it and top it with fresh fruits like banana, apple, kiwi, etc and have it for breakfast which is the most popular way to eat granola.
2. Granola Bars: Have you heard of granola bars? These are really great to have as snacks. It gives instant energy and perfect for kids when they come home after playing.
3. Smoothies: If you love smoothies, you can top your smoothies with a fistful of granola and this will make your smoothies more tasty and filling.
4. Salads: You can also add granola to your salad bowls and it will give you an extra crunch!
5. Desserts: Summers are for popsicles! Isn't it? You can add granola to your popsicles too. Apart from that, you can add it your breakfast muffins or to your truffles or add an extra layer in your parfait! Basically, granola is pretty flexible! You can add granola to anything and everything and enjoy your meal. If you do not like any of the options, you can simply munch them (the way I do it sometimes).
FAQ
Muesli and Granola both are great breakfast options and can be either served with milk or yogurt. Muesli is an uncooked breakfast cereal which contains different types of grains (oats and mostly in the form of flakes like corn flakes, wheat flakes, rice flakes etc.), nuts, seeds and dried fruits.
On the other hand, granola is a cooked (baked) cereal which consists of grains, nuts, seeds, dried fruits with added sweeteners and oils for binding them together. As granola has binding agents, here oats stick together in clusters whereas muesli is a loose type of mixture.
You might say granola is readily available in any supermarket or departmental store so why should I prepare Granola at home. My answer to this question is the homemade tastes the best! Also, you can customize the ingredients as per your choice which will not be possible for the store-bought granola. You can also adjust the sweetener when you are making at your own kitchen. Do you agree with me now?
Most of the granola recipes available in the internet calls for baking. However, many of the Indian household does not have oven till date as Indian recipes mostly done on stovetop. So, they should not be deprived from the taste of homemade granola.
Now let's learn how to make granola without oven. I'm going to share the simplest skillet granola recipe on the stovetop that you can make at home without using an oven.
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Homemade No Bake Granola (without Sugar)
Equipment
- Non-stick Pan
Materials
- 2 cups Rolled Oats
- 2 tablespoon Sunflower Seeds
- ⅔ cup Dry Fruit Mix (golden& black raisins, cranberries)
- 10-15 nos Almonds
- ¼ cup Honey
- 3 tablespoon Butter
Instructions
- Dry roast the almonds and finely slice them.
- Now melt butter and add the melted butter with honey in a bowl.
- Also dry roast rolled oats and sunflower seeds until the color changes slightly.
- Next add honey-butter mixture into it and coat the oats mixture nicely.
- Cook the mixture for 2 to 3 minutes under low flame.
- The color of the mixture will turn into golden brown. Switch off the gas and allow the mixture to cool.
- Now the granola mixture becomes chunky so break the chunks using your fingers.
- Next add the chopped almond and dry fruits in the granola mixture. Mix well.
- Store it in an airtight container. Easy homemade stovetop granola mixture is ready.
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Mayuri Patel
Interesting stove top granola recipe. I usually bake it in the oven. Will have to try your stove top version as it gets ready in less than five minutes.
Ruxana Gafoor
Healthy and an easy recipe...
Shantana
Your post was really interesting. Will be back for more.
Wish you a lovely day!!
Natalia
Yum, love granola for breakfast or as a snack,but I usually make it in the oven. Great tip, have a lovely weekend ☺
Julie
I have tried making the granola bars in oven, this looks simple to be done on stove top..healthy too!
Angie's Recipes
Have never made granola with stovetop...it surely looks delicious and perfect for the breakfast.