Breaking the fast Muffins

Happy New year everyone!!Yes I am alive. Fat and fine as usual and am extremely ashamed of not posting a single recipe in 2014 and I blame it solely on me. Sloth is one deadly sin and I confess that I was fully drowned in one. However I have buried my lazy past in the past and here I am starting my 2015 with a bang. I have dusted the cobwebs from my blog and it’s now up and running. The love and calories is here with double the love and may be fewer calories.

My first post of this year is “breaking the fast Muffins”. Since it’s got some dried fruits, seeds and carrots in it, you can very well call it a “Healthy” muffin. I had these lovelies last weekend for my breakfast accompanied by some freshly squeezed orange juice prepared by hubby dear. It was indeed a good start of the day. :P

Ingredients:

· 300g of plain flour
· 50g of oats
· 50g of caster sugar
· 3 tsp of baking powder
· Handful of sunflower and pumpkin seeds
· Two handfuls of any chopped dried fruits
· One orange, zested and juiced
· One carrot, finely grated
· Two eggs, separated
· 150ml of yoghurt
· 100ml of sunflower oil
· A pinch of cinnamon or mixed spice
· A little vanilla extract.
· Muffin case
· Muffin tray

Method:

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.

Mix the flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, seeds, fruit and spices together in a large bowl. Then add the oil, yoghurt, orange zest and juice, grated carrot and egg yolks and prepare a thick batter.

In another mixing bowl, whisk the egg whites until they have formed white peaks. Gradually add the whisked whites to the batter and mix gently.

Put each muffin case in every tray hole and spoon enough mixture into the muffin cases so that they are almost full. Sprinkle some sugar on top if desired.

Bake them for twenty minutes or until they are cooked all the way through and a gentle brown colour on the top.

PS: If you want to make your muffins more healthy, combine some wholemeal flour with plain flour (1:1 ratio) but let me warn you, the muffin will be very tight unlike your normal lighter muffins.

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