Muesli recipe

Brighten up your breakfast table with this homemade fruit and nut muesli – a delicious family favourite!

This quick and easy muesli, with sultanas and cherries, almonds and hazelnuts, makes a deliciously healthy breakfast that's filling too.

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Ingredients

• 60g (2oz) hazelnuts, chopped
• 60g (2oz) flaked almonds
• 60g (2oz) sultanas
• 60g (2oz) bran flakes
• 170g pack dried berries and cherries, or cranberries
• 500g (1lb) jumbo oats or porridge oats
• Semi-skimmed milk (300ml/½ pint per person — 75ml/5 tablespoons if soaking, plus extra for serving)

To serve:

• Greek yogurt
• Fresh seasonal fruit: mango slivers, apple slices or bananas, pineapple and red grapes
• Honey or maple syrup

Method

1. Toast the nuts in the oven, under the grill or in a frying pan, watching to make sure that they don’t burn. Leave to cool in a large bowl.
2. Add all the other ingredients and mix together. Store the mixture in an airtight tin or large jar.
3. Use about 75g (2½oz) muesli per person. For serving as traditional (Bircher) muesli, add 75ml (5 tablespoons) semi-skimmed milk per person. Leave covered in the fridge overnight (it will still be crunchy in the morning — promise!).
4. Serve in bowls with more milk, topped with a good spoonful of yogurt and fresh fruit. Drizzle with honey or maple syrup.