Low-Fat Quinoa Zuchinni Muffins
Recipe: #8731
March 23, 2013
Categories: Breakfast, Snacks, Quinoa, Brunch, Oven Bake Heart Healthy, Low Fat, Zucchini, Kid's Lunches, more
"I made these, there very good a little dense I am thinking from the cooked quinoa but there healthy and low fat so I can't complain, no really there good! There are far from being sweet so if you have a sweet tooth you may want to increase the sugars, add in some raisins if you like"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (73.1 g)
- Calories 121.9
- Total Fat - 1.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.4 g
- Cholesterol - 27.3 mg
- Sodium - 44.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 24.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.9 g
- Sugars - 11 g
- Protein - 3.2 g
- Calcium - 23.2 mg
- Iron - 0.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 5.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Step 2
To make the 1 cup cooked quinoa; rinse 1/3 cup of uncooked quinoa in cold water and place in a small saucepan with 2/3 cup water. Bring to a boil then reduce heat to low, cover and allow to simmer for about 15 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to sit for an additional 5 minutes, keeping quinoa covered. Fluff with a fork and set aside.
Step 3
In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugars, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Set aside.
Step 4
In a large bowl using your stand or hand mixer beat together eggs and milk. Then add in the cooked cooled quinoa, zucchini, applesauce and vanilla and stir until well-mixed. Add zucchini mixture to the flour mixture, stirring until just combined (careful not to over stir).
Step 5
In a muffin pan coated with cooking spray, fill each cup about thrfee-quarters full with batter.
Step 6
Bake for about 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Tips
- Muffin tin