Light & healthy muffins

A recipe that makes 12 muffins in 40 - 45 mins (20 mins prep and 20-25 mins baking time).


Following on from the jam, it seemed a pity to make jam to go on store bought bread, so I made healthy muffins to go with them. After some googling, to find a recipe with ingredients like this:

I adapted this recipe for 12 muffins. 

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.

Wet

• 1 ¼ cups dates, dried apricots and dried figs, coarsely chopped
• 3 tbsps honey
• 1 cup skim milk
• ¼ cup orange juice
• 2 large egg whites
• 2 tbsps vegetable oil
• 1 banana mashed

Dry

• 1 tbsp orange zest
• 1 ¾ cups oats
• ½ cup flour
• 5 tsps baking powder
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• pinch cloves

Combine the top 7 wet ingredients in one bowl and the bottom 6 dry ingredients in another bowl. Mix them each up well separately and then combine and mix well together.

Spoon the mix in two 6-muffin silicon muffin tins. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. (Check them at 20 minutes.) Hoik them out of the muffin tin and cool on a rack.

The muffins are not very sweet at all and quite plain so a good base for a flavourful jam. The muffins are very soft believe it or not. With all the oats I suspected they would be much more stodgy then they actually were.

I ate them like this, hot out of the oven with a dollop of sweet, tangy jam and a dollop of creamy fromage frais.

They were delicious!


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