Monday Morning Muesli - By Gynelle Alves

If you’re one of those people who wake up in the middle of the night sometimes just craving a bowl of breakfast cereal, sometimes craving chocolate... then you’ll love this recipe I came up with… uhhh, at four o’clock one morning. Thinking about it now, if Mary Poppins made muesli, it might go something like this…

Ingredients:

2 cups rolled oats

1/2 cup poppy seeds

1 cup chopped almonds + 1/2 cup ground almonds (skin on!)

6 tbsp brown sugar

3 tbsp butter

1 cup puffed rice

1 cup cornflakes

2 tbsp cocoa powder

1/2 cup raisins (optional)

1 tsp cinnamon powder (optional)

Pinch of salt

Method:

Heat a frying pan and on a medium flame toast the oats, ground almonds and poppy seeds with a nice pinch of salt. Remove to a big mixing bowl to cool.

On low heat, add 1 tbsp butter, chopped almonds and 2 tbsp brown sugar. Put it back over a gentle flame and toast almonds till nicely browned and the sugar has melted over them.

Remove this to a plate to cool.

Again, on low heat, with a tbsp of butter toast your rice puffs with 2 tbsp brown sugar for a minute. Add the cocoa powder, toss around to coat the puffs and add to the oats to cool.

Next, toast the cornflakes with the remaining butter and sugar till lightly caramelized and very crisp. Add to the oats and puffs and mix well. Break up the crunchy almonds and mix it all in. Store it all in a clean, dry, air-tight jar. Add to cold soy or regular milk…or as a topping to chopped bananas and cream.