Healthy Blueberry Muffins

There is nothing like Healthy Blueberry Muffins if you are after healthy breakfast ideas.

This recipe features reduced oil. The basic muffin recipe is very forgiving: you can use white sugar, frozen blueberries or other berries and you can substitute yogurt for the buttermilk. You can prepare this healthy muffin recipe the night before - mix the dry and wet ingredients SEPARATELY. In the morning simply mix them together, add the fruit and bake.

Easy

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time: about 20 minutes

Makes 12 muffins

Ingredients:

2 cups cake flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

¾ cup light brown sugar

1¼ cups fresh blueberries

1 egg

1 cup buttermilk

¹⁄₃ cup vegetable oil

1 tablespoon orange zest

Method:

Preheat the oven to 350° F / 180° C.
Line a 12 hole muffin tray with muffin papers. Spray with cooking spray.
Mix together the flour, baking powder and sugar.
Add the egg, buttermilk, vegetable oil and orange rind. Mix lightly with a fork or whisk. DON'T OVERBEAT or else your muffins will land up being heavy. Get the lumps out and make sure the mixture is just mixed - that's the secret. This mixture is fairly thick - a reasonably stiff dropping consistency (ie not a thin batter).
Lightly fold the blueberries into the batter.
Fill the muffin cases ¾ way up.
Bake for about 15 - 20 minutes until the muffins are well risen and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out just clean.
Cool on a wire rack.