I’m getting to the point where Sylvie Shirazi of Gourmande in the Kitchen can do no wrong with her recipes. Virtually all of them are entirely grain-free and focus on real food ingredients — near perfect in my book.
This post for a Grain-Free Chocolate Granola is no different than the rest of her amazing library of delicious and healthy recipes and points out the fact that breakfast can be a really hard adjustment for those on a gluten-free diet and even harder still if you’re on a grain-free diet. This recipe deftly creates a breakfast favorite with nuts, seeds, coconut, and a few other fantastically healthy ingredients. My favorite tip of hers is to eat it with yogurt (I’d do it with Greek yogurt) — there really are few other choices that are as tasty as granola and yogurt — even better when it’s a grain-free granola not filled with corn, soy, rice, and sugar like most of the store-bought brands.
This is not your typical granola. There are no oats to be found which means it’s not only gluten-free its grain-free as well. But what it does have is chocolate, and let me tell you, that is always a good way to start the day.
For those following a grain-free or gluten-free diet, breakfast can be the hardest meal to adjust to. Most of us have spent our lives eating cereal, oatmeal, toast and pancakes in the morning, but my breakfasts lately consist of smoothies, leftover frittata, coconut flour crepes or this granola with homemade yogurt.
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