Blueberry muffins

Make healthy blueberry muffins using this easy recipe with cottage cheese for extra protein and oats for texture. They make a great snack for toddlers and older kids will also love them.

Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 25 minutes Difficulty rating: Easy

Ingredients

Makes 12 serves

• 1 cup oats
• 1½ cups self-raising flour
• ¾ cup sugar
• ½ tsp salt
• 2 eggs
• 11/4 cups cottage cheese
• ¾ cup milk
• 1/3 cup polyunsaturated vegetable oil
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups of frozen blueberries

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (for a conventional oven).
2. Grease the muffin pan.
3. Put the oats into a blender to make oat flour.
4. In a large bowl mix the oats, flour, sugar and salt with a whisk to mix well and remove any lumps.
5. Place cottage cheese in food processor and blend until it becomes very smooth.
6. In a separate bowl, mix the cottage cheese, oil, eggs, milk and vanilla.
7. Mix the wet ingredients with dry ingredients.
8. Stir through the blueberries.
9. Spoon mixture into a greased muffin pan and bake for about 25 minutes until golden.

Tips

• Serve when warm with a glass of milk.
• To increase the fibre content, use wholemeal self-raising flour instead of plain self-raising flour.
• The cottage cheese can be replaced with yoghurt, but cottage cheese is higher in protein and so makes these muffins more nutritious.

Nutritional content

Nutritional analysis per serve:

References

1. AusNut. Nutrient Database. 2007. [cited 27 April 2012]. Available from: URL Link