How to Make Banana and Oat Muffins

Healthy Banana and Oat Muffins

Today, let’s see how to make banana and oat muffins. I’m particularly fond of recipes with oats and thought you just might love this one as much as I do. This is a recipe for healthy banana and oat muffins as it doesn’t include maida or all-purpose flour. It’s a fantastically easy recipe. In fact, if you have ripe bananas at home, this is one of the tastiest and healthiest recipes you could make with them.

These gluten-free banana and oat muffins are not only quick and easy to make, they are super-tasty as well. So go ahead and bake a batch at home. You’ll be amazed at how light and delicious these healthy muffins are.

Want to check out some more oat recipes? How about crunchy raisin and oat cookies? Or soft and healthy instant oat dosas and uttapams?

Ingredients

1 ¾ cups (210g) rolled or quick-cooking oats

7 tbsp (100g) granulated sugar, roughly ground

(OR 7 tbsp fine castor sugar)

3 tbsp oil

3 tbsp melted butter (salted)

2 eggs

2 medium-size ripe bananas

(OR 1½ large bananas)

2 tsp baking powder

¾ tsp grated nutmeg

1 tsp vanilla extract

½ cup chopped nuts and raisins

Makes around 11 medium-size muffins (or 15 small ones).

Procedure

1. Dry roast the oats for 2-3 minutes and then grind this to get oat flour.
2. Keep around 3 tbsp of the raisins and chopped nuts aside to use as a toping and mix 1 tbsp of oat flour with remainder. This is to prevent the raisins and oats from sinking to the bottom of the muffins while they’re baking.
3. Next, prepare the dry ingredients by mixing the oat flour, baking powder, and grated nutmeg.
4. Mash the bananas well.
5. Add the eggs and the sugar to the mashed bananas, and whisk all this well. Add the oil, butter, and vanilla extract and whisk everything again.
6. Then add the dry mix to this wet mix, folding only till both are just combined. The batter should have an easy dropping consistency. Fold in the nuts and raisins mix.
7. Fill around ½ to ⅔ of each muffin mould with the batter. I used paper cups and aluminium moulds. You could use silicon moulds or a muffin pan with liners. Sprinkle some of the nuts and raisins on the top of the batter in each mould.
8. Bake at 170 C for around 20 minutes.

Enjoy!