Healthy Vegetables Muffins (健康蔬菜小松饼 （素））

 

UPDATED POST ON 23-11-2014

Have not prepared this for a year and in this attempt, I have transformed the muffin into a savoury muffins and reduce the olive oil used. Please refer to recipe 2 highlighted in red .

If you are not a vegetarian, you can always add in cheeses and bacon or ham.

 

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INTRODUCTION

My post is getting shorter and shorter because my recipe is getting easier and easier. I have a number of muffin/cupcake posts and I am not tired of creating more based on my one number baking ratio theory. The theory is to promote the use of same ratio in the baking of cakes or muffins. It is based on the basic pound cake ratio with some modifications. It is easy to practise and in essence, it is just the manipulation of 4 basic baking ingredients: fats (butter, peanut butter, cooking oil, olive oil), liquids (eggs and milk), flour (wholemeal or plain flour or even semolina flour) and sugar (brown sugar, white sugar, icing sugar and etc.). Because of using this ratio in the baking, the muffins/cupcakes are usually very moist.  If you are interested in my other muffins/cupcakes series, these are the few that you can consider:

• Peanut butter chocolate chips muffins
• Banana cream cheese cupcakes
• Yoghurt marble cupcakes
• Simple carrot muffins

This is a healthier version of muffins. No complicated creaming of butter, folding of flours and etc. It is just a simple mix and bake muffins. In addition, to further testing the “simple” principle behind the theory, I have started with 100 grams of fats and all remaining volumes will be 100 grams. The muffin uses olive oil and the inclusion of some vegetables – mushrooms and broccoli. Is the results satisfactory? Yes, definitely yes. Not only the pattern insides the muffin looks pretty, the taste is awesome as well. 

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WHAT IS REQUIRED

Servings: Make 5-6 medium sized muffins

• 100 grams of self raising flour (or wholemeal flour+1/2 teaspoon of baking powder)
• 100 grams of olive oil (or cooking oil or melted butter)
• 100 grams of eggs (about 2 eggs)
• 100 grams of sugars
• Some cauliflower and mushrooms
• 1/4 teaspoons of baking soda

Recipe 2

• 100 grams of self raising flour (or wholemeal flour+1/2 teaspoon of baking powder)
• 50 grams of olive oil (or cooking oil or melted butter)
• 100 grams of eggs (about 2 eggs)
• 10 grams of sugar or any flavour enhancer that your are using now such as mushroom concentrate granules etc..
• 20 grams of fresh milk
• Some cauliflower and mushrooms
• 1/4 teaspoons of baking soda
• Pinches of salt
• Some cheddar cheeses, bacons or hams (if preferred)

 

• Please disregard ‘!!” in the picture as it is my mistake to include in the picture.

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STEPS OF PREPARATION

Preparation:

• Lightly grease some muffin tins or get ready 5-6 muffin cups and put in the muffin tins.

• Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius

• Shift the flour and add in the sugar. Stir until well mix. Make a well in the centre and put in eggs and olive oil. Stir lightly until it is “mix” and slight lumpy is okay for muffins. Filled up 1/3 of the muffins cup with batter, put  one small size broccoli and ensure that it is surrounded by the batter. Continue to fill until the batter is 85% full. Top with additional broccoli and mushrooms.

• Bake in the oven at 180 degree Celsius for 15 to 20 minutes or when the skewer inserted comes out clean.

• Note that the shape of your muffins will depend on the positioning of your vegetables. If you put the mushrooms too close to the muffin cups, you will have a funny shape muffins like the above picture. Of course, the taste is still awesome and edible. Try not to put big pieces of broccoli in the centre of the muffin batter as it will hinder the rise of the muffin.

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CONCLUSION

A simple, quick and easy recipe. It can be as healthy as you want it to be. Try to substitute the self raising flour with wholemeal flour and you can get a wholemeal broccoli mushroom muffin. Run out of breakfast tomorrow? Why not making it today as it utilizes mostly common household ingredients. In addition, it is fast and easy.

Hope you like the post today. Cheers and have a nice day.

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