Sunday, May 25, 2008

Oat Blueberry Muffins


Maintaining health is very essential to live a longer life and amount of calories intake form the base for the balanced life. Wherever you search, may be internet or physician advice, the one and only mantra to lose weight is the amount of calories consumed daily should be less than the calories burnt. Modern world has introduced laziness and made our life easy. With new inventions, daily activities are substantially reduced which gives us an option to work on low fat calorie food. But that doesnt mean we have to trade our taste to health. Heres a low fat calorie food with no egg yolks or butter..and with a main cholesterol reducing ingredient, Oats...This eggless version still tastes great and enjoy this delicious reccipe with no guilt

Ingredients No of Muffins - 5
  1. Self raising flour - 3/4 cup
  2. Oats - 1 1/4 cup
  3. baking soda - 1/2 tsp
  4. Eggs - 2 (white)
  5. Oil - 4 tbsp(1/3 cup)
  6. Milk(Low fat ) - 1/2 cup
  7. Sugar - 1/2 cup
  8. Blueberries - 1/2 cup

Method
  1. Preheat oven to 350F
  2. Mix all dry ingredients(flour, oats, baking soda) and sugar in a bowl
  3. Whisk the egg whites with oil and milk for 2 mts. You can also use the egg whites which is available in all retail stores like Walmart, Jewel if you dont want to waste the whole egg yolk
  4. Blend the wet ingredients to the dry flour mixture and make it a batter. Do NOT over mix the batter which would make the muffins/cake dry
  5. Gently sift the blueberries into the mixture
  6. Grease muffin pan and fill 3/4 cup(make space for muffins to become fluffy
  7. Bake for 18-20 mts

Start your weekend with these lowfat blueberry muffins and enjoy the weekend.

Tips
1. Grease the mufin pan liberally with baking spray.
2. Baking soda is the main ingredient for fluffiness
3. Over mixing batter will lead to dryness.

No comments: