My search for muffins liners stops right here. Yup I bought some silicone muffin cups this weekend and also managed to bake these yummy banana muffins immediately too.
I chanced upon this recipe in the Prevention Magazine, when I was waiting in the Doctor's reception during my MIL's check-up. It was about how to make nutritious muffins while making at home but the taste being better than the store bought ones.Though I had made this muffins several times I liked this one very much when compared the older ones.
Arjun hates eating bananas in spite of the Doctor's orders to have them more during the summer time. So I always have to think of ways to incorporate them without his knowledge. This also happens to be the first time I baking using Palm Sugar and was apparently quite thrilled about the outcome and taste.
Banana Nut Muffins
You'll Need:
| All Purpose Flour | 1 ½ cup |
| Palm sugar, packed | 1/2 cup |
| Baking powder | 1 tsp |
| Baking soda | 1/2 tsp |
| Salt | 1/4 tsp |
| Ripe Banana, mashed | 1 cup |
| Egg, Large | 1 |
| Buttermilk | 1/4 cup |
| Olive oil | 2 tbsp |
| Vegetable oil | 2 tbsp |
| Vanilla Essence | 1 tsp |
| Walnuts, chopped | 1/3 cup + 2 tbsp |
Method:
Preheat the oven at 180 Deg C. Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl.
Mix mashed banana, egg, oils, butter milk and vanilla essence in a large bowl until smooth.
Gradually add the flour mixture and stir until well blended. Add the 1/3 cup walnuts and mix thoroughly. Fill muffin cups ¾ fill. Sprinkle the remaining 2 tbsp of walnuts over the top.
Bake for 15-20 minutes and cool. Serve warm. They were so soft and moist. These muffins frost very well and my kids were happy to have with a glass of milk for their breakfast.
Note: You can substitute palm sugar with brown sugar of plain sugar. You can also replace olive oil with vegetable oil or butter. Be sure to buy a good quality of palm sugar as some may have impurities.
This is a good way of introducing my kids to olive oil as the portion is an individual one. I could not detect the smell of it and they loved it very much.
I used 2 morris variety banana and ran it in a mixie to a paste instead of mashing it with a ladle to avoid detection of Banana by Arjun.
This Banana Nut Muffins and Mom's Sweet Muffins are off to Divya's Show Me your Muffins
Bon Appetit!!!
