Can I lower the sugar content (currently 1 cup brown sugar : 450g oats) of the Lip Lady's Secret Granola without losing clumps?
https://food52.com/blog... Inspired by this post to give the Lip Lady's granola a try with 1/2 quick oats and 1/2 ground oats. But in spite of the warnings in the recipe, I want to mess with the sugar and make something a little lower on the glycemic scale. First instinct was to try 1/2 cup brown sugar with 1/4 brown rice syrup and 30ml water. Could I go even lower? Could I eliminate the brown sugar entirely and do all brown rice syrup or a mix of brown rice and maple?
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I can refer you to my recipe here and you can compare the dry ingreds/syrup ratio w/ your granola idea. this ratio in mine does stick together well. It's 1 cup syrup for 6 cups dry(plus almond butter). I applaud any efforts to lower the sugar and up the nutrition.This world of ours just has to get off this sugar thing; it's everywhere, and once one starts reading food labels, it is just overwhelming. end of rant!
https://food52.com/recipes/16714-maple-almond-butter-krisped-rice-treats
Have you considered using olive oil in place of some of the butter? That would give it a lovely flavor, too.
Finally, if I were playing with this recipe, I'd cut it in half and experiment on a smaller scale until I figured out what worked.
I hope this helps. ;o) P.S. Let us know what you do!