Banana Amaranth Muffins
Delicious, healthy and fluffy amaranth muffins loaded with bananas and studded with chocolate chips
Ingredients
- 45 g amaranth flour
- 135 g whole wheat flour
- 113 g oat flour
- 360 g ripe bananas, mashed
- 113 g plain, natural yoghurt
- 2 eggs
- 149 g soft brown sugar
- 50 g olive oil
- 2 tsp baking powder 1/2
- 1/2 tsp soda bicarb
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 40 g chocolate chips
Instructions
- Line a 12-muffin pan with liners or lightly grease them and preheat the oven to 190°C.
- In a large bowl, whisk together all the flours, salt, soda bicarb, baking powder and ground cinnamon.
- In another bowl whisk the olive oil with the yoghurt and brown sugar. Beat in the eggs one at a time, followed by the mashed bananas.
- Now fold the dry mixture into the wet mixture with a light hand until there are no lumps. Take care not to overmix.
- Fold in the chocolate chips, fill the prepared muffin tin with the batter till ¾ full and bake for 20-25.the muffins should be tall and domed with no wet batter sticking to the tester toothpick.