Healthy Homemade Cereal Recipe is whole grain cold cereal with cinnamon, coconut sugar, oats, hemp and chia seeds.
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My healthy homemade cereal is simple. Made with rolled oats or quick oats coated in maple syrup and cinnamon, toasted in the oven and then dusted with coconut palm sugar.
I then added chia seeds and shelled hemp seeds to keep my belly full for more than an hour because we all know cereals don’t do that job well. I also added nuts which were good for nutrition but kinda dulled the cinnamon taste. So, this time I left them out.
It’s perfect healthy breakfast!
Ingredients for Healthy Homemade Cereal
To make this healthy homemade cereal recipe you will need just a handful of simple ingredients.
- Oats
- Maple syrup
- Cinnamon
- Hemp seeds
- Chia seeds
- Vanilla extract
- Sugar
- Salt
How to Make Healthy Homemade Cereal
Here’s a quick overview how to make healthy homemade cereal at home.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. In a large mixing bowl, add oats, cinnamon, salt and mix well. Add vanilla and maple syrup, stir very well to coat oats with syrup.
Place in a large rimmed baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes.
Remove oats from the oven and stir, breaking with spatula into small pieces. Transfer to previously used bowl along with remaining cinnamon, hemp and chia seeds, flaxseed and coconut sugar.
Stir well and adjust cinnamon and sugar to taste if desired. Serve cold with milk of choice.
More Breakfast Recipes to Try
- Healthy granola
- Quinoa granola
- Quinoa granola bars
- Chia pudding
- Instant pot steel cut oats
- Overnight oats
Healthy Homemade Cereal
Ingredients
- 2 cups quick or rolled oats *
- 4 tsp cinnamon divided
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 4 tbsp maple syrup **
- 1/2 cup hemp seeds
- 1/2 cup chia seeds
- 2 tbsp flaxseed ground (optional)
- 2 tbsp sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. In a large mixing bowl, add oats, 3 tsp cinnamon, salt and mix well. Add vanilla and maple syrup, stir very well to coat oats with syrup.
- Place in a large rimmed baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes.
- Remove oats from the oven and stir, breaking with spatula into small pieces. Transfer to previously used bowl along with remaining 1 tsp cinnamon, hemp and chia seeds, flaxseed and coconut sugar. Stir well and adjust cinnamon and sugar to taste if desired.
- Serve cold with milk of choice.
Notes
- Store: Store in a cool dry place in an airtight container for months (I bet it will be gone sooner).
- *I prefer rolled (old fashioned) oats because of their larger size and nutrition.
- **You can use honey. Just make sure to stir well as honey is thicker than maple syrup (unless you have a runny consistency honey).
Fast, easy and delicious!
Could I switch the coconut sugar for honey also can I not add in the Hemp seed would that effect the taste or cereal
I have substituted honey for the maple syrup, but not for coconut sugar. If you don’t like hemp seed, you can omit it. The taste will be different.
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Are chia sees in this cereal safe to be eaten? I thought chia seeds have to be soaked in liquid at least 15 minutes.
No they don’t have to be.
Olena you are so funny ? I love your little stories before your recipes. They always make me laugh.. I’ve just bought a load of ingredients to try and make some of your recipes because they all look soooooo delicious. But I must admit I’ve never cooked/baked with a lot of these ingredients before so it will be a new experience for me. Thanks so much for this website, I stumbled upon it by accident because I was looking for healthy on the go breakfasts. You’ve done a really good job putting all of this together, and the photos you have taken of your food are outstanding and makes my mouth water every time I look at them. Good job!
Awe, you are so welcome and thank you for your kind words! So happy to hear you are enjoying my recipes and stories haha! Please don’t be shy to leave me a comment with a star review once you make any recipe. Have a great week!
Excellent but I totally eliminated the sugar and decrease the maple syrup by 1 Tablespoon. I’m trying to cut down on my sugars.
Fantastic! Glad you enjoyed the recipe, Kathy!
Yum! This is very good! I subbed turbinado sugar in place of the coconut palm sugar, because I can have a bit of unrefined sugars per day. I used cashew milk and the chia seeds absorbed all the milk, which was neat. I never had chia seeds in cereal before. I also added dried goji berries and raisins in mine and it was very tasty and filling.
Sounds super loaded.:)
Olena,
OMFG this is so good! I used Bob’s red mill gluten free steel cut oats and it was a success. It was crunchy, slightly sweet and oh so cinnamony. I added 1 more tsp of cinnamon in the last step and 1/4 cup coconut shreds. I think next time I will toast it with the oats. It was a last minute addition. 🙂
Haha. Good, huh?! Totally satisfies the craving for junk cereal. I have it when that craving hits me. With almond milk.
I can’t find the hemp seed where I live ?. Could I omit it? Or is there a substitute?
Hi Jackie. Yes, you can omit shelled hemp seeds or replace with sunflower seeds.
I LOVE this recipe! So many nutrients with a great taste!
You just took Cinnamon Toast Crunch to a whole other level! As a big fan of cinnamon, cereal, AND (use to be) cinnamon toast crunch… I am obsessed with this recipe!! xx
Hi Erin. Good, huh?! I love it! It fills that void for me. Had it this morning in my son’s unfinished bowl of milk from cereal. So good OMG. Glad you enjoyed it. I love having a jar of dry healthy cereal in the pantry.