Multigrain Orange Muffins

 
 I really enjoyed making these muffins the other night--they're very tasty as well as low calorie (for a muffin)---they are great for a breakfast with some fresh fruit  

Multigrain Orange Muffins

Made for me 19 muffins, but if you put less mixture in the muffin cups you’ll be able to get more servings

2/3 c Granola (coarsely ground)

2 c Oatmeal, Quick Cooking

2 c Whole Wheat Flour (I grind my own)

½ c Organic Sugar

1 ½ tsp Cinnamon (or more depending on your taste)

1 tsp salt

2 Eggs (I used small, but you can use any size, but the calories will change)

½ + 1 Tb Olive Oil

1/3 c Honey

Zest and Juice from 1 Large Orange

1 ½ c Water (this maybe a combination of the juice (collected from your orange when you juiced it) and water) + ¼ c (this may or may not be needed depending on elevation)

2 Tbs Baking Powder

The tools you will need to zest (metal/black tool on the left) and juice (yellow tool on the right, manual juicer)

Zest has been removed from an orange

Grease or line muffin pan and preheat oven to 400F  

Leaving water and Baking Powder to the side mix all remaining ingredients.

Add 1 ½ c of water to mixture. Add more water to the mixture if it is too thick.

Add Baking Powder to mixture and mix well. Let mixture sit for 5-10 minutes to allow the baking powder to start to rise---this will allow the muffins to be airy and moist.

Fill muffin cups with about ¼ c of mixture. If you don't have enough batter to fill in all muffin cups, than put water in the empty cups (fill 1/3) to stop from burning the empty cups. Bake for 15 minutes or until done.



The calories/fiber/fat with the ingredients that I used

with a yield of 19 muffins

193 cal

4.5 fiber

2.2 fat

Some variations that can be made:

Instead of water, you can use milk

Instead of Granola you can use Bran/Grain Cereal/Corn Meal/Wheat Flour…

Instead of using all of the zest from a large orange you could use 1/2