- I've had my first recipe request (how exciting!) An anonymous poster requested some quinoa recipes. I only started using quinoa in the last six months and I love it! It's super easy to cook with and it's supposed to be amazingly good for you. I will soon post some recipes for the various salads that I've made using quinoa but here's a great recipe for Quinoa Pumpkin muffins that my mom first made when she was out visiting us last fall. It's been adapted from the Savy Mom website.
- ¾ cup whole wheat flour
- ½ cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ cup brown sugar, packed
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 egg
- 1 egg white (or just use two eggs)
- ¼ cup plain yogurt or buttermilk
- ¼ cup canola oil
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ¾ cup pumpkin purée
- ½ cup cooked quinoa
- 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
Prep and Cook
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- In a bowl, sift together the flours, baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon using a whisk. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl combine the brown sugar, honey, egg, egg white, yogurt, oil and vanilla and mix well. Stir in the pumpkin, add the dry ingredients and the quinoa; mix until just combined.
- Drop batter into a lined muffin tin filling the cups ⅔ full, and bake for 18 minutes. Check for doneness at 13 minutes. Muffins will be done when they smell ready and when you can stick a knife in the middle and it comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes.
- Serve with butter.
Shopping tip - The cheapest place to buy quinoa is at Costco. I don't have the price comparison numbers in front of me right now but I know that it's at least 50-75% cheaper at Costco than anywhere else.
Shopping tip #2 - The cheapest place to buy paper muffin cups is at Ikea. Who would have thunk?!
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