Toasted Muesli

I love toasted muesli but prefer not to load my breakfast up with too much fat content. The thermie gets a look in as a mere food processor with this recipe, but it's worth sharing as its delicious and a little bit healthy to boot!

Use the thermomix on speed 4, just 2 or 3 seconds at a time to chop a mix of nuts about 2 cups in all. I used peanuts, cashews, almonds and pepitas for this blend. I warn you it does change each time, so just use what you have in the pantry.

Mix through 2 cups of chopped dried fruit using reverse speed 2, again whatever you like. In this case I used apricots, pears, sultanas and craisons.

Combine the fruit and nuts along with 4 cups of rolled oats in a large bowl, then spread onto an oven tray lined with baking paper. Spray lightly with a low flavor oil- I use rice bran oil spray. Drizzle about 1tbs of maple syrup over before baking at 170 degrees for up to 30 mins or until golden and toasted. Every 5 minutes stir it around and reapply oil and maple so all sides toast, and you can monitor to make sure it doesn't burn.

If you like the flavor add 1/2 cup shredded coconut after 20 mins.

Return to the bowl to cool, and add some other cereal for texture. II used 1 cup of puffed wheat, 1 rice bubbles and 1 of Special K. You can add anything you like here to suit your palate and diet.

Once completely cool store in a sealed container.