I honestly don’t know why I didn’t think of this before! I love making my Bircher Muesli recipe, but recently I was going away and wanted to have a breakfast option that would travel well. And it hit me: let’s make a dried muesli mix. Duh! This is what I came up with; it can take 5 minutes, it’s packed full of plant variety, fibre and a good amount of protein, plus it tastes great…

INGREDIENTS

Nuts:

Pistachios

Cashews

Pecans

Almonds

(Feel free to switch this up, depending on what you have in, I like to use a mix of 3-4 different nuts)

Seeds:

Sunflower seeds

Pumpkin seeds

Chia seeds

Hemp seed hearts

Ground flaxseed

Everything else:

Whole rolled oats

Goji berries (raisins also work)

Desiccated coconut (optional)

Ground cinnamon (optional)

TIPS & NOTES

Personally, I like to lightly toast my nuts and large whole seeds lightly in a frying an on a low heat for 5 mins to release their natural oils (which means more flavour) then roughly chop the nuts. If you’re in a rush, you can skip these steps!

I keep this at room temperature for around 1 week. For longer-term storage (2 weeks), you can omit the flaxseed and hemp seed (you can replace them with the equivalent weight in walnuts if you want to boost the omega-3 content) or store your muesli an airtight container in the fridge. I prefer to soak it overnight by adding 1 part liquid (kefir or milk of your choice) to 1 part dry muesli for a firm pudding texture. However, you can also whip this up on the day. When I do this, I prefer to let it soak for 10-15 mins in the liquid before eating (usually I’ll go get us a coffee or something in this time).

I even often make this for travel because you add the liquid later so it works for hand luggage and often when we go on trips, we’re not staying in luxury accommodation, but you will basically always have some milk, yoghurt, honey and maybe even fruit. You can also soak this in orange juice (or even a mix of orange juice and milk). This means I have a healthy, balanced breakfast even when staying in some pretty random places! (Instead of a suspiciously shelf-stable individually-packaged croissant…)

Feel free to adapt this to your preferences! I use whatever nuts I have on hand rather than strictly following this exact recipe every time. I recently did it with almonds, pecans, walnuts and brazil nuts. I also swapped the coconut and goji berries for raisins.

Let me know if you try my homemade dried muesli!