Suzette’s South African Granola

A versatile granola recipe that can be eaten for breakfast, as a snack or baked on top fruit for a quick and easy dessert.
By Nicole Criss

There are recipes that bring us back to our mother’s kitchens, family barbecues, or to our college apartments. This granola takes me back to a few unforgettable mornings spent in Cape Town, South Africa. We watched the fog roll over Table Mountain and learned that the South Africans call that the “table cloth”. We were treated to Suzette’s granola, with rich yogurt and fresh fruit. We savored each bite, knowing it would give us the sustenance to tour the coast later that day.

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We stayed with Suzette and her husband in a residential neighborhood of Cape Town, and Table Mountain was literally in their back yard. They run a small bed and breakfast and were happy to sit and share stories with us over meals. These types of hosts always enhance the experience in a foreign country. We spent our days basking in the beauty of Cape Town and the majesty of the rugged Cape of Good Hope.

Suzette readily shared her granola recipe with me and the taste brings me back to those mornings when we were brimming with excitement to be discovering such a stunning place. I find that through recipes, like photographs, I can extend my vacation, savoring it all again, even years later. And I can share it all with friends, too.