Healthy Savoury Muffins for Breakfast

Ingredients:

(Yields 8 Large Muffins)

• Wheat Flour - 400 gms
• Oat Flour - 75 gms
• Salt - 1 tbsp
• Baking Powder - 1 tsp
• Baking Soda - 1 tsp
• Grated Carrot - 3 tbsp
• Grated Cabbage - 4 tbsp
• Green Chilli - 1 (finely sliced)
• Red Chilli Flakes - 2 tsp
• Corriander Leaves - 2 tbsp's (finely chopped)
• Whole Large Egg's - 2
• Buttermilk - 1/2 cup

Method:

1. Pre-Heat the Oven to 220C.
2. Mix the Wheat Flour with Oats Flour. add salt, baking soda and baking powder. Mix well with your hands.
3. Remember : Never Sieve/Sift the Wheat Flour. The Nutrients are lost when sieved.
4. Now add Grated Carrot, Cabbage, Green Chilli, Red Chilli Flakes & Corriander Leaves to the flours and mix well.
5. Beat the Egg and add it to the flour. mix with a wooden spoon.
6. Add Buttermilk to the flour and mix well with the spoon. I kept mixing with hands. It should be like our little watery chapathi dough.
7. Grease the Muffin Pan and spoon in the dough into the moulds.
8. Bake it for about 20 minutes at 220c. and check whether it has cooked by inserting a toothpick or knife in centre of the muffins and comes out clean. If Not cooked bake them for another 5 minutes.

Enjoy the Muffins Warm!!

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Vanilla Walnut Cupcakes

Ingredients: (8 to 10 cupcakes)

• All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 and half a Cup
• Baking Powder - 1/2 tbsp
• Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
• Butter - 50 gms
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Vanilla essence - 2 tsp's
• Egg's - 2
• Warm Milk - 2 tbsp's
• Chopped Walnuts - 4 tbsp's

Method:

1. Pre-Heat the Oven at 190C for 10 minutes. Line the Muffin Pans or grease the muffin pans with little butter, if you dont have muffin lining papers.
2. Sift the Flour, Baking Powder and Baking Soda atleast three times.
3. Powder the Sugar.
4. In a Mixing Bowl, Have the butter at room temperature. add powdered sugar and beat well either with a hand whisk or hand blender.
5. After Creaming the Butter with Sugar, Break egg's into them one by one and beat well.
6. Add Vanilla essence to the bowl and beat well.
7. Now add sifted flours little by little and mix with a wooden spoon. add little milk and give a mix with the wooden spoon.
8. Add chopped walnuts and give a soft mix. and drop a spoon full of mix onto the lined muffin pans.
9. Bake the Cupcakes for 15-18 minutes at 190C. or till a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cupcake comes out clean.
10. After Baking, cool the cupcakes for atleast 10 minutes.
11. I frosted the cupcake with Nutella. It was yummy, though the frosting patterns was difficult for me.
12. The Cupcakes was great in taste. the sweetness was just correct. If you are planning for frosting, go ahead with the same sugar amount mentioned in the recipe. if not using frosting, increase the sugar amount by 1/4 cup.

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Eggless Chocolate Muffins

Wet Ingredients:

• Cold Water - 1 and half cup
• White Vinegar - 1 and half tbsp's
• Brown Sugar (or) Sugar - 1 cup
• Olive Oil (or) Canola Oil - 6 tbsp's

Mix the above Wet ingredients in a bowl together. Let the Sugar Dissolve well.

Dry Ingredients:

• All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 and half cup
• Cocoa Powder - 1/4 cup
• Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - a small pinch

Method:

1. Sift the flour and cocoa powder along with the salt and baking soda for atleast 3 times,
2. So that no lumps of cocoa powder / all purpose flour are there and also the baking soda is mixed well with the flour.
3. Mix the Dry Ingredients along with the wet ingredients and stir slowly. make sure no lumps are formed in the mix.
4. Pre-Heat the Oven to 180c and line the Muffin tray with Muffin Liners.
5. Pour the mix on to the Muffin tray and bake it for 25 mins exactly. Check whether muffins are baked, by insering a toothpick in the centre of a muffins, it should come out clean, else bake for another 5 mins.
6. Remove the Muffins from the tray and cool them on wire wrack. Let them cool down for 10 minutes.
7. Put the Muffins in Refrigerator for about 2 hrs and serve chilled.

To make Icing:

1. Mix the Icing sugar (5 tbsp's) with warm water (1 tbsp) and beat well. spread the icing over the muffins and serve.

Notes:

1. Lemon Juice can be used instead of White Vinegar.
2. Brown sugar works perfect than Plain Sugar.
3. I feel cooling the muffins makes it taste better.
4. Well, now iam heading to my fridge to pick one muffin.

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