We’ve done endless oatmeal variations, cereal, pancakes, French toast, and even coffee. Today? We’re checking off Protein Granola! It’s crunchy, packed with healthy macros, cheap to make, and made in 5 minutes or less with 6 simple ingredients. If you’re looking for a new snack, breakfast topper, or to level up your yogurt bowls, this one is worth a try!

Start this one by adding into a mixing bowl 1 cup of rolled oats, 2 scoops of protein powder, 2 tablespoons of a syrup (maple, brown rice, or sugar free work great), or honey, 1 large egg white, 1 teaspoons of vanilla extract, and anything else you want in your granola.

Some of my favorite granola add ins?

• Raisins
• Dried cranberries
• Dried cherries
• Chocolate chips (sugar free!)
• Peanut butter chips
• Sprinkles (sugar free!)
• Hemp seeds
• Pumpkin seeds
• Chia seeds
• Coconut flakes
• Pumpkin seeds
• Nuts
• Ground cinnamon

If you want your protein granola “super” clumpy you can add in an additional 1-2 egg whites.

In a small microwave safe bowl, microwave 2 tablespoons of a nut butter in :30 second intervals until melted. You can also melt it over low heat on the stove.

Add that melted nut butter into your mixing bowl and mix everything together.

Optionally, if you melted your nut butter on the stove you can add in the rest of your ingredients right into your pan and mix it in there.

Oven or Air Fryer

From here, take out a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or air fryer basket and spread out your soon to be protein granola over it in a single layer, it should look like this.

Put that into either the oven on 325/162C for 15-18 minutes or your air fryer on 300F/148C for around 7-9 minutes. You’ll know it’s done once it starts to turn a golden brown color.

Remove your granola from the oven or air fryer and let it cool. As it cools, it should crisp up even more.

Pro tip? If you’re making this in the oven you can flip everything around half way through (ultimate granola crunch). You don’t need to do this in the air fryer.

Protein Granola Combinations

Think outside the box to change up the flavors or macros even more!

• Salted caramel protein powder, cashew butter, raisins
• Chocolate protein powder, pistachio butter, coconut flakes
• Birthday cake protein powder, peanut butter, sugar free sprinkles
• Vanilla protein powder, almond butter, sugar free chocolate chips
• Banana protein powder, hemp seeds, dried cherries

You can store this in either an airtight container or bag and it should last around a month. You can also freeze it and it’ll last 5-6 months, if not longer.

A “single” serving with the listed amounts here will work great in your air fryer. If you’re planning to scale this and make it in bulk, the oven will be much quicker with a larger baking sheet. With that said, you can easily scale the recipe below.

Try our Protein Oat Cups next!