These yummy muffins by Clove Food are made from super food cardamon, which is brilliant for digestion, colds and flu and provides a whole host of other healthy benefits. I made these last weekend and they’re absolutely delicious.
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients:
- 50g/1.8oz/generous 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 200g/7oz/1.5 cups spelt flour
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder
- 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
- ¼ teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of ground cardamon **
Wet Ingredients:
- 240ml/240g/8.5oz almond milk
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 60ml/60g/2oz coconut oil, melted
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 65ml/93g/3.3oz honey
Fruit:
- 1 ripe banana, mashed
- 80g/2.8oz/3/4 cups blueberries
- 50g/1.8oz/1/3 cup chopped dates
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180°C
- Line a 12-hole muffin tin with large muffin cases.
- Put the oats into a blender and pulse until they resemble a coarse flour. You want there still to be some chunks of oats in there that have roughly quartered in size. Transfer to a bowl and sift in the remaining dry ingredients and combine together.
- Next, put all of the wet ingredients into a bowl and whisk together until thoroughly combined.
- Peel the banana and mash it with a fork on a flat surface, add it to the wet ingredients and whisk through. Then stir through the blueberries (keeping about 12 aside to press into the tops before baking) and chopped dates.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and using a metal spoon, gently fold everything together until incorporated.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared muffin tin so that the mixture comes about two-thirds up the sides of the muffin cases.
- Sprinkle some coconut palm or Demerara sugar over the top of each muffin along with some added oats. Press a couple of the blueberries that you have kept back into the top of each muffin. Bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle of a muffin comes out clean.
Notes
** Sometimes it can be hard to find ground cardamon, so if I can’t find any, I just put about two tablespoons of whole cardamon pods into a blender. If you have a good blender it should blitz it into a fine powder. If your blender is not so strong, it should get half way there. All you then need to do is put the almost powder through a sift and then be able to discard any husks/larger chunks that have not been powdered by the blender.
