What I’m about to give you may look like a recipe, but it’s actually more like a key. Are you ready? All you need to unlock a great granola at home is equal parts of cereals/grains/roughage (like oats or quinoa/rice flakes for gluten freedom) to nuts/seeds/fruit (I love almonds and pecans, but the sky’s the limit here!). Whatever’s in your pantry that needs to get used up – from scroggin mixes to slightly dodgy looking bags of nuts, the heat of the oven will render them good as new. Then just add equal parts of oil to honey or maple syrup (1/2 a cup of each makes a kilo of granola). Capped off with a teaspoon of salt and the same again of spices (cardamom is the hero here for me!). If you feel like using a zest – like lemon or orange, this is best added closer to the end of cooking, so that you can retain the colour and intensity. Now, if you’re reading this and your eyeballs are swirling about your head because straight up recipes are more your bag, then fear not! Here’s one I prepared earlier, just for you.