Banana Bran Muffins
 
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Quick & easy banana bran muffin recipe - one batch could potentially take care of your breakfast for a week!
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Recipe type: Breakfast Muffins
Cuisine: World
Yield: 12
Ingredients
  • 2 overripe medium sized bananas, pureed or mashed well (approx ½ cup puree)
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • ½ cup rolled oats (or unflavoured, instant oats - but rolled are better)
  • ½ cup wheat bran
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • Pinch salt
  • 1 cup milk
  • ¼ cup vegetable oil
  • ¼ cup maple syrup (you can use honey/ jaggery syrup)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg
  • Handful of chopped almonds and cashews
  • Equipment Used:
  • 12 piece muffin pan
  • Mixer Grinder
  • Hand-beater or stand mixer
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat your oven to 180 C and place the rack in the middle of the oven.
  2. Line your muffin pan with paper liners or parchment paper and lightly grease them.
  3. In a mixer-grinder, powder the oats until they resemble fine meal. (You could even simply use oat flour but I usually just have oats in the house and I powder them).
  4. In the same jar, add the flour, wheat bran, baking soda, baking powder and salt and give it a quick whiz to mix them up.
  5. In a mixing bowl, place the pureed bananas, eggs, oil, maple syrup and vanilla extract. Using your hand beater, beat all the wet ingredients on high speed for about 2 minutes or until well combined and pale. Add the milk and give it another quick mix. You can do this step in your stand mixer as well.
  6. Add the dry ingredients and fold using a wooden spoon or spatula until combined and no flour-y streaks are visible.
  7. Add the chopped nuts, reserving a few for topping, and stir.
  8. Spoon the batter into the muffin pan and top with the reserved nuts.
  9. Bake for about 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of a muffin comes out clean. If they are not done at the end of 15 minutes, reduce the heat to 150 C and give it another 2-3 minutes before checking.
  10. Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for about 15 minutes. Lift the muffins out of the pan using the liners and stand on a cooling rack to cool completely, about 30 minutes.
  11. Consume immediately or transfer to an airtight container and store in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
Recipe by Food-Dee-Dum at https://food-dee-dum.com/2013/04/17/banana-bran-muffins/