Healthy Pear & Banana Muffins Recipe
Ingredients
- olive or canola oil spray
- 2 cups wholemeal self-raising flour
- 2 cups self-raising flour
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 150 mL low-fat natural yoghurt
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1 large banana, peeled and chopped
- 1 pear, cored and chopped
- 1/2 cup buttermilk or low-fat milk
Method
- Preheat oven to 170 °C. Lightly spray muffin trays with oil.
- Sift flours, returning husk from wholemeal flour to the bowl, add brown sugar.
- In a separate bowl mix eggs, yoghurt and juice.
- Combine with the flour mix and fold through fruit and milk (you may need less milk depending on moisture in fruit). Do not over-mix.
- Spoon mixture into trays. Bake near the top of the oven for 18-20 minutes.
- Turn onto a wire rack to cool.
Hint
Wrap muffins individually and freeze for a lunch box snack.
Recipe from Healthy Food Fast © State of Western Australia, 2012. Reproduced with permission.
Variation:
Any 100% fruit juice can be used. Use apples, blueberries or other firm fruit to vary the flavour.
Healthy tip!
Having a party? Serve vegie sticks and water crackers with salsa rather than high-fat chips and dips.
Nutrition Information
| per serving | per 100g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 537 kJ | 862 kJ |
| 128 Cal | 206 Cal | |
| Protein | 3.8 g | 6.1 g |
| Fat, total | 0.9 g | 1.5 g |
| — saturated | 0.3 g | 0.4 g |
| Carbohydrate | 25.2 g | 40.4 g |
| — sugars | 8.9 g | 14.3 g |
| Sodium | 170.1 mg | 272.9 mg |
| Fibre | 2.1 g | 3.4 g |
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Comments (1)
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These muffins are quite nice, but I found the mixture very dry. I had to add extra buttermilk , yoghurt and juice to get a better consistency. I will try 2 mashed banana's next time as well.
Anonymous
Posted on: 26 Aug 14
