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healthy blueberry muffins recipe

Healthy Blueberry Muffins Recipe

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Healthy blueberry muffins recipe using no refined flour or sugar. Perfect to make as a toddler snack.
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 20 mini muffins

Ingredients
  

  • 1 and 3/4 cup atta or spelt flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • A pinch of salt
  • 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil I have used regular olive oil and veg oil with success
  • 1/3 cup honey can be increased to 1/2 cup
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup plain yogurt Greek yogurt works better
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup blueberries fresh or frozen

Instructions
 

  • Pre-heat oven to 350 F / 180 C. Line or grease your muffin pan as needed. I used my mini muffin pan
  • In a bowl, combine the flour with the baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix them together with a whisk until well combined. You can also sift this mixture but who has time for things like that anymore? Not me!
  • In a separate bowl, add the oil and honey and beat together with a whisk.
  • Add the eggs and beat well, then add the yogurt and vanilla. Mix everything well together
  • Gently pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and fold with a silicon spatula or wide spoon. Do not be tempted to over mix at this stage, just combine everything as gently as you can
  • The batter is a bit tick so I use a spoon to pour into the muffin pan. 
  • At the end, add 1-2 blueberries per muffin and gently press into the top. I prefer doing this to adding the blueberries to the batter because that makes them sink to the bottom and become gooey on baking
  • Bake in the pre-heated oven for 20 minutes. Start checking from around 17 minutes and bake until the top turns golden brown and a skewer inserted into the muffin comes out with wet crumbs
  • Cool in the muffin pan for 10 minutes and gently invert onto a baking tray and cool completely

Notes

  • If you make normal sized muffins, you will get around 12 of them. In that case, add 4-5 blueberries per each muffin
  • This yields a mildly sweet muffin. Increase amount of honey if you want it a tad sweeter. You can also add some sugar on top of the warm muffins as soon as they come out of the oven, for a crispy outer layer
  • You can add some cinnamon powder for extra flavour and health kick
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