Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Best healthy muffins ever!


These are to dye for! Way better than anything I have tried.
Chia Seed Pumpkin Muffins

Ingredients
1 tablespoon chia seeds , ground (use a coffee or spice grinder) *I do not grind them at all.

1 cup whole wheat or whole grain flour

1/2 cup white unbleached flour

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

2 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 can (16 ounces) organic pumpkin (make sure there is only pumpkin listed on the ingredient list)

2 eggs

1/4 cup high-quality extra-virgin olive oil

1 cup pure maple syrup or 1/2 cup agave nectar or a combination of the two *I used half and half

1 tablespoon vanilla

1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans , optional

Salt and pepper to taste *I did not do this

Directions
 Pre-heat oven to 350°.

Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl. In a separate bowl, mix all wet ingredients.

Fold the wet ingredients (fold in nuts now if you are using them) into the dry ingredients and spoon into paper-lined muffin or greased muffin tins. Bake for 25–30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of a muffin comes out clean. Store completely cooled muffins in sealable plastic bags in the freezer

3 comments:

  1. These muffins blow Jillian's out of the water. They are lighter and have a cake texture...but are much healthier than ordinary muffins. Roxanne and I were laughing about some other recipie she found. The author/poster was trying to claim her recipie was healthy..yeeahh..with 4 cups of sugar! hahaa.

    These are pretty good. I ate 2 for breakfast and it was definatly one too many. I usually only have a smoothie for breakfast and then jump into a workout. With 2 of these muffins in me I had to wait over an hour to workout and after I had a protien kale smoothie for lunch because I couldn't handle anything flourly or grainy.

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  2. I am excited to try this recipe. I don't make muffins very often but my kids would love me if I did!

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  3. Just made these for dinner (ha ha!) and they were delicious! Much better than Jillian's!

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