Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Healthy Banana Muffin Recipe

Recipe for Healthy Banana-Blueberry Muffins- makes 12



This is a recipe that I sort of made up. By sort of, I mean I initially took one recipe, and then made significant changes. They taste delicious and can be enjoyed for Breakfast or as a snack.

Ingredients:

3 ripe bananas, mashed
1 1/2 cup whole-wheat pastry flour (available at Whole Foods)
1/2 cup of light brown sugar (can be substituted with honey)
2 teaspoons of baking powder
2 tablespoons of canola oil (you can leave this out; they taste great without but won't be as moist, unless you use honey)
1 cup blueberries
1 large egg
1/2 cup of milk
1/4 cup of quick oats
1 teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon cinnamon

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prepare muffin pan
In one bowl, mix dry ingredients, which include flour, sugar, baking powder, oats and salt. (If you're going to substitute sugar for honey, I recommend mixing honey in other bowl.)
In a separate large bowl, mash bananas; add oil, milk and egg. Mix but do not over-mix. You want some banana chunks in there. Then fold in dry ingredients until blended nicely. When you are done doing this, add blueberries and cinnamon (or you can add chocolate chips; that's yummy too!)
Divide batter in muffin pan evenly.

Bake for 20 minutes, until knife goes through and comes out clean.

Delicious!!!!

[Image thanks to talkoftomatoes according to this license]


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