Healthy Yogurt Parfaits

Healthy Yogurt Parfaits

Suzy Lewis

This is a perfect, balanced breakfast or snack that can be prepped ahead of time or thrown together on the spot. Making your own granola is a clean way to add crunch and flavor without the added fat and additives. It’s so easy!

Ingredients:
Parfait:
1 C Plain Greek Yogurt
1 C mixed berries
1 C Granola, store bought, or use recipe below

Granola:
4.5 C old fashioned rolled oats – not quick cooking or steel cut
½ C sunflower seeds
1 C unsweetened flaked coconut
1/3 C flax seeds
1/3 C butter
1/3 C brown sugar
1/3 C agave nectar
½ tsp salt
1.5 tsp vanilla extract
¾ tsp baking soda

Instructions:

1. Make Granola.
2. Heat oven to 325 and line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper or spray with cooking spray.
3. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl.
4. Make syrup by adding butter to a large saucepan over med heat, stir in brown sugar, agave nectar, and salt. Bring to a boil, remove from heat, and stir in baking soda and vanilla.
5. Pour syrup over the dry oat mixture and mix until everything in evenly coated.
6. Spread onto the prepared pan and bake for 8 minutes.
7. Remove from oven and toss, then gently press down on granola with your spatula to flatten. Bake for another 8-10 minutes until golden brown.
8. Remove pan and use the back of a metal spatula to press the hot granola firmly down into the pan. Allow granola to cool completely and then stir and break up for clusters that stick together.
9. Assemble parfait.
10. Add ½ C yogurt to two mason jars.
11. Layer ½ C mixed berries.
12. Top with ½ C granola.
13. Mix and enjoy!