Last Updated on May 30, 2015 by Chef Mireille
Both oat flour and quinoa flour are wonderful alternatives to all purpose flour. It is lighter than whole wheat flour, so closer in texture to all purpose flour, but with all the benefits of a whole grain. Although brands like Bob’s Red Mill sell oat and quinoa flour, it is super easy to make at home.
Just buzz the oats or quinoa in a food processor or high powered blender and voila!
Yield: 17 muffins
Ingredients:
- 1 1/3 cups white wheat flour
- 2/3 + 1/4 cup quinoa flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon nutmeg, freshly grated
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 2 teaspoons almond essence
- 3 very ripe bananas, mashed
- 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 cup raspberries
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoons slivered almonds
Preheat oven to 350 F. Spray muffin cups with non stick spray or line a muffin tin with muffin liners.
In a bowl, combine flours, sugar, baking powder, salt, baking soda, nutmeg and cloves. Mix well.
In a large bowl, mash the bananas. Add oil, almond essence and sour cream and mix to combine well.
Add flour combo a little at a time and mix well. Using a rubber spatula, fold in raspberries. They will burst and crush – that’s fine.
Fill muffin cups 2/3 fill. Garnish the tops with the slivered almonds.
Bake for 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Healthy and delicious snack for anytime…
or for breakfast…
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Love this recipe. I have to try them. I will use oats as quinoa does not go down well in my house.
Healthy Muffin… Thanks for linking it to My Bake fest event..
lovely healthy muffins.Full of fruit and spices.
They look yummy. I have all ingredients except for almond essence. Hope it will turn out good without it
yes you can just use vanilla extract instead
wow wonderful use of rasberry, banana and quinoa flour 🙂 such an moist and tempting combo !! looks fantastic 🙂
Like Varada I too will make it with oats only.
I bake rarely with raspberries, this muffins looks simply fantabulous.
When I first saw these in FB, my older one was like 'can I bake these today?' Need I say more, Mir? But we..er..she never got around baking these 🙂
love love that color of rasberry..loks too good Mir!
Those are such a healthy, flavorful and delicious muffins.
love the the idea of using quinoa flour, Mireille.
My, those muffins are so inviting Mir, thanks for sending it across!
Love the quinoa flour and raspberry idea. They have come out fabulous.
Such a lovely healthy muffin Mir!!!