Banana & Blueberry Muffins

[chris]

My little one and myself made these yesterday. I've eaten pretty much the lot (I made a loaf out of the mix too, NOM!).

Anyway, I class them as healthy as they've oats in them

Needed a recipe to use up some blueberries as we've had a great crop of them this year.

Ingredients
300g self-raising flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
100g light muscovado sugar
50g porridge oats , plus 1 tbsp for topping
2 medium bananas , the riper the better
284ml carton buttermilk
5 tbsp light olive oil
2 egg whites
150g punnet blueberries

Method

• Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper muffin cases. Tip the flour and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl. Hold back 1 tbsp of the sugar, then mix the remainder with the flour and 50g oats. Make a well in the centre. In a separate bowl, mash the bananas until nearly smooth. Stir the buttermilk, oil and egg whites into the mashed banana until evenly combined.
  
• Pour the liquid mixture into the well and stir quickly and sparingly with a wooden spoon. The mix will look lumpy and may have the odd fleck of flour still visible, but don't be tempted to over-mix. Tip in the blueberries and give it just one more stir. Divide the mix between the muffin cases - they will be quite full - then sprinkle the tops with the final tbsp of the oats and the rest of he sugar. Bake for 18-20 mins until risen and dark golden. Cool for 5 mins in the tray before lifting out onto a rack to cool completely.

Oh, just noticed they're "low fat" - bonus I'll polish the 3 remainders off now then!

BTW, I used a tbsp of apple cider vinegar (didn't have any lemons, or white wine vinegar!) in 300ml of milk as I didn't have any buttermilk - they were a bit too most, I poured too much milk in and couldn't be bothered to pour it back out again.

Enjoy! They are rather tasty.

[Flummery]

I love muffin recipes. To stop you feeling too guilty (and full!) in future, remember that they freeze very well.

[chris]

It does mention that they freeze well, but they store even better in my tummy