A sweet touch of honey and divine chocolate dip turns this crunchy mixture of seeds, rice and granola into a guilty pleasure. Substitute blueberries with your favourite dried berry.
Ingredients
1 cup canola oil
1 1/2 cup John Russell honey
1 cup brown sugar
5 cups granola mix
2 cups Rice Krisipies
1 cup wild rice
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
3/4 cup dried blueberries
1 cup dark chocolate, broken into pieces
Method
- Preheat oven to 350˚F.
- In a heavy bottomed sauce pot, bring oil, sugar and honey to a boil on high heat and set aside.
- In a small sauce pot on medium heat, cook wild rice in water for 35 mins until rice blooms.
- In a pan, add 1 Tbsp of oil and fry rice for 1 min.
- Place wild rice on baking sheet and bake for 15 mins.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine granola, Rice Krispies, wild rice, sunflower seeds and dried berries. Stir in hot sugar and honey mix.
- Line baking sheet with wax paper and spread out mixture. Cool for at least 2 hrs.
- Cut into squares and again into triangles.
- In a microwave-safe dish, heat chocolate in 20 secs bursts, stirring in between until chocolate is melted.
- Dip half of triangles into chocolate. Allow chocolate to harden on wax paper.
Yield 24 triangles