Healthy banana oatmeal muffins with yogurt / quick and easy oatmeal muffins / banana oatmeal yogurt muffins
Banana 🍌 and oats - very good and healthy combination of food. There are so many dishes that can be prepared with this combo. Today I am sharing a simple muffin recipe with this combo of bananas and oatmeal.
I had some over ripe bananas which my kids never dared to touch. So I had to use them in some preparation. I have already posted some recipes with over ripe banana like banana Choco bread 🍞, banana appalu. I wanted to prepare a banana walnut loaf bread with these over ripe bananas, but changed my mind and went ahead with these healthy banana muffins with yogurt.
These moist banana oatmeal muffins were so tasty 😋 that my man 👨 and kids loved them a lot. I also packed these tiny banana cupcakes for their snack break as well. These were loved by their friends as well. There is a secret ingredient added to this muffin recipe which might have contributed to that amazing taste.
The secret ingredient is sugarcane juice. Yes, you heard it right. I have added sugarcane juice to these muffins. But, if you do not have it handy, then you can substitute it with maple 🍁 syrup. You can check my recipe to extract juice from the sugarcane at home. The other main ingredient that goes into the preparation of this egg free banana muffins is Greek yogurt. So these muffins are so healthy considering the fact that Greek yoghurt, bananas, sugarcane juice and oats are very good for health.
These breakfast banana muffins are soft, moist and delicious 😋. They can be had as such for breakfast, brunch or as an evening snack. Kids or elders who are hesitant to eat oats will love ❤ this muffin as they cannot even hint that they are made with oats.
You can also check my other bakes which are very healthy and nutritious
Preparation
Powder sugar and jaggery separately one after the other and keep aside. Similarly, make a fine powder of oats and sieve it through a fine strainer. Set aside. Mash the banana well with your hands or use the blender to make a smooth pulp without any pieces or lumps in it. Keep aside. Now take all the dry ingredients namely oat flour, maida, flax seed
powder, salt, cinnamon powder, baking powder and baking soda in a bowl.
Take
yoghurt in another bowl and add the banana puree.
Mix well and add olive oil.
Give a nice mix and add the sugarcane juice and vanilla essence. Mix well until
combined.
Now add the powdered jaggery and sugar and whisk well until it is all mixed up
completely.
Now add the dry ingredients mixture little by little. Mix well
until incorporated. Do not over mix.
Pour into greased muffin tray or cups. Garnish with sliced
pistachios or raisins or any other nuts of your choice. Bake at 180 degrees
Centigrade for 30 - 40 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted in the
centre of the muffin comes out clean. Allow it to cool completely before
removing them from the tray or cups.
Ingredients
Jaggery powder 1/2 cupSugar 1/4 cup ( powder it )
Dry Ingredients
Oat flour 1 3/4 cup
Maida 1/2 cup
Baking powder 1 tsp
Baking soda 1/2 tsp
Salt big pinch
Cinnamon powder 3/4 tsp
Flax seed powder 1 tbsp.
Wet Ingredients
Mashed bananas 1 1/2 cups ( about 3 bananas )
Sugarcane juice 1/4 cup
Olive oil 3/4 cup
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Greek yoghurt 1/2 cup
Method
- Powder the sugar and jaggery separately and keep aside. Powder the oats into fine flour and sieve. Keep aside.
- Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside.
- Take the wet ingredients namely yoghurt, mashed bananas, vanilla essence, olive oil, sugar cane juice one after the other and mix nicely until everything is combined.
- Add jaggery powder and sugar powder and mix again.
- Now add the dry ingredients slowly little by little stirring well after each addition.
- Pour into greased muffin moulds or cups and top with nuts, raisins, dates or cherries 🍒.
- Bake at 180 degrees Centigrade for 30 - 40 minutes or until done.
- Cool completely before removing from the muffin tray.
Notes
- Do not overmix the batter after adding the dry ingredients.
- The original recipe calls for maple 🍁 syrup in place of sugar cane juice.
- You can top the muffins with any nuts or dates of your desire or a combo of any of these.
- You could also use whole wheat flour instead of oat flour.
- Make sure that you puree the bananas well without any pieces in it. You can grind it in a mixie to get it right.
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You can substitute cinnamon powder with cardamom powder if you like the flavour of the latter.
