No Fat Low Sugar High Fibre Apple Pear Oatmeal Muffins Recipes

PEAR CARDAMOM OATMEAL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Lightly spray or grease a muffin tin with oil. Set aside.In a large bowl, combine oats and milk. Let sit 15 minutes.
• In a second mixing bowl, whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cardamom.
• Stir the oil, egg, brown sugar and vanilla into the soaked oat mixture. Add dry ingredients. Stir just until combined. Do not overmix. Gently fold pears into the batter.
• Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared muffin tin. (If using the crunchy topping: Stir the butter and sugar until the brown sugar dissolves. Top the muffin batter evenly with the mixture as shown in the photo.)
• Bake 12 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let the muffins cool in the pan 5 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack. Enjoy these muffins warm or freeze for later.

HIGH-FIBER BREAKFAST MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line 12 muffin cups with paper or foil liners, or grease if not using liners.
• Combine oats, all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, applesauce, egg whites, milk, brown sugar, oil, and vanilla in a large bowl. Mix until blended. Fold in raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries. Divide batter evenly into the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, 15 to 17 minutes.
• Let muffins cool for 5 minutes in the pan before transferring to a cooling rack.

HEALTHY LOW FAT APPLE AND OATMEAL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Soak the oats, apple juice, sugar and vanilla for 30 minutes.
• Mix in the flour, baking powder, grated apple and cinnamon.
• Fold in the beaten egg whites; Spoon into 12 muffin tins.
• Top muffins with 2 sliced apple wedges (cut quarters of apple into 3 or 4 wedges) and bake at 170° C (338°F) for 25 - 30 minutes until muffins and cooked though and golden.
• Cool in pan for a few minutes, then remove from pan and cool on wire rack.

NO FAT, LOW SUGAR, HIGH FIBRE APPLE-PEAR-OATMEAL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees.
• Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl.
• Add wet ingredients and mix.
• Do not overstir.
• Spoon into muffin tins greased with nonstick oil.
• (you can leave out the oil if you use stick free muffin tin) Bake 20 minutes in a 400 degree oven.

MAPLE PEAR OATMEAL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prepare muffin cups with a light coating of cooking spray.
• Combine dry ingredients (flours, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon) together in a bowl.
• Core and dice the pears into small chunks. Combine the pears, buttermilk, maple syrup, oil, sugar, egg and all but 2 tablespoons of the oatmeal together in a second bowl. Let sit for 5 minutes.
• Combine the pecans and reserved oatmeal together to use as a topping for the muffins. Set aside.
• Combine the wet and dry ingredients together until just mixed. Spoon batter into muffin cups, filling 2/3s full. Sprinkle with the pecan/oatmeal mix. Bake 18 to 20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes and remove from pan.
• Serve warm or let the muffins finish cooling on a rack.

APPLE WALNUT MUFFINS LOW FAT & LOW SUGAR VERSION

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400ºF. Grease 12 muffin tin cups or line with cupcake papers.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the flours, baking powder & soda, salt, cinnamon, oats, Splenda and walnuts.
• Thoroughly mix the egg, buttermilk, apple butter, oil & grated apple. Pour into dry ingredients and stir gently just till mixed. A few lumps are OK; overmixing will make the muffins tough.
• Divide the batter among the prepared muffin cups. Combine topping ingredients & scatter over muffin tops.
• Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. (They don't rise very much; that's okay.).
• Remove from oven & cool on a rack (if you're "muffin tipper", now's the time to do it ;-) for 10 minutes. Remove from pan & finish cooling on rack.

LOW-FAT APPLE OATMEAL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Combine oats, yogurt, and cider vinegar and set aside.
• In a separate bowl, combine applesauce, oil, eggs, and vanilla.
• In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients.
• Pour wet ingredients over dry, and stir gently to combine. Stir in the oat/yogurt mixture. Stir in the shredded apples.
• Spoon into well-greased muffin tin.
• Bake ~25 minutes.