Oat bran, raspberry, banana and chocolate chip muffins

Interesting combination of flavours, sweet and sour with dark chocolate bits. Additionally packed with bran. Delicious, prefect for breakfast...

The idea comes from this website.

Ingredients for 12 muffins:

• 285g flour
• 25g oat bran
• 1 tsp soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 60 ml honey
• 65g brown sugar
• 260g mashed bananas
• 65g natural yogurts
• 1 egg
• 175 ml milk
• 90g chocolate chip
• 230g frozen raspberries

Preheat the oven to 190C. Line muffin tin with paper cases.

In a big bowl mix the flour, bran, soda, salt, cinnamon and set aside.

In a separate bowl stir sugar and honey together until most of lumps are gone. Add mashed bananas, yogurt and egg. Sir them well. 

Pour wet ingredients into w bowl with dry ingredients add the milk and mix them until just combined. At last, but not at least, gently fold in the chocolate chips and raspberries. 

Spoon the batter into paper cases filling them up to top. Bake the muffins for 20 minutes.

Enjoy !

Recipe in Polish

Bran, rhubarb barley flakes and yogurt muffins

Very tasty, packed with fibre, rhubarb muffins with barley flakes crumble. We liked them a lot. I think they are perfect for lunch box. Freshly baked were light and fluffy the next day were bit moist and dense but still very good. And the lovely, crunchy, buttery crumble.. yummy.

Ingredients for  5 big muffins:

• 75g rhubarb
• 3 tbsp sugar
• 40g oat bran
• 3 tbsp barley flakes
• 150g flour
• 3 tbsp palm sugar (you can use demerara instead)
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 150g natural yogurt
• 1 egg
• 100 ml milk

Cut the rhubarb into small chunks place in a sauce pan add sugar and cook until  release juices. Set aside to cool down.

Preheat the oven to 180C. Line muffin tin with paper cases.

Put the bran, barley flour, sugar baking powder in a big bowl and mix them together.

In separate jug mix the yogurt, milk and egg. 

Add the rhubarb into a dry ingredients bowl and stir. Pour in the wet ingredients and mix them until all ingredients are just combined. 

Spoon the batter into paper cases, about 3/4 full. Then chop additional piece of rhubarb into small chunks and sprinkle on top of each muffin. 

Crumble:

• 2 tbsp sugar
• 2 tbsp barley flakes
• 30g butter
• 2 tbsp flour

Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix them with your fingers until start forming chunks. Sprinkle those chunks on top of each muffin.

Bake in preheated oven for 20 - 25 minutes. 

 Enjoy !

Recipe in Polish