As a treat to my daughter today, I decided we should bake something yummy ;D I asked her what she wanted to bake and she requested muffins with….umm…… CHOCOLATE.
Perfect, I thought. What a chance to try some new recipe for muffins with chocolate and….. ummm…….. MILLET.
Come on – MILLET and MUFFIN – just go together! If I said we’d make some muffins with PROTEIN – what do you think they would have??? CHICKEN? or maybe TOFU? (that might actually be pretty good ;)) Millet is an awesome grain rich in protein and other great stuff (get the nutrition here). So it makes sense that I would go ahead and make this nutritious and delicious recipe (and simple too, really). It’s inspired by this one from Semilla, and here is my adaptation:
CHOCOLATE MILLET MUFFINS
(gluten-free, dairy-free, with vegan options)
- 1 1/2 cups of millet flour
- 1/2 cup of all purpose gluten-free flour
- 1/3 cup dried millet grains (optional) will give you a little crunch
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup almond milk
- 1 egg(or use egg substitute: 1 tsp xanthan gum or 1 tsp ground flax seeds mixed with a 2 tsp of warm water)
- 1/2 cup grape seed oil (or another mild tasting oil)
- 1/2 cup honey (or agave nectar if vegan) (+1/4 cup brown sugar – optional)
- 3/4 cup of dark chocolate chunks
- Preheat oven to 400. Prepare 12 muffin cups.
- In large bowl, mix both flours, millet, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In separate bowl, mix the egg until frothy, add the milk, oil and honey. Stir milk/egg mixture into flour mixture just until evenly moist. Gently fold in chocolate chunks. Transfer batter to muffin cups.
- Bake 15 minutes or until toothpick in center of muffin comes out clean.
We had a lot of fun. My daughter wanted to be part of everything (as you can see). I only measured and gave instructions. It was SO COOL to bake together – good mommy – daughter time and overall a productive and chocolaty-rewarding activity….
Next time you’re out shopping, get some millet flour and try adding it to/ or substituting your usual white flour. The recipe becomes so much healthier and you get more nutrition from a simple and easy muffin recipe – like protein. Do you have any favourite healthier alternative recipes for muffins, if so, please share. We just LOVE making muffins – and oh boy, it just has a bigger purpose when you include the kids ;P
If you like this recipe with millet, try Delicious Millet Breakfast.
Comments
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These look great. I will have to try the millet flour – I trust you ;)
Too bad your daughter got so upset at the end there. Kids ;)
Your modification to the blueberry millet recipe looks delicious! I will
definitely give them a try. Your blog is beautiful, love the photography!
Wish I had the talent to capture my recipes with such artistic flair! Let me
know if you would be interested in reviewing our Semilla Snack Bags in your
blog. Take care, Alyssa
Mmmm, these look so delicious. Thanks for sharing! We’re always looking for recipes using “unusual” grains. Maybe you could try soaking the millet grains overnight before using them — that might take care of the crunch and make the muffins a bit more moist, too.
Thanks ladies.
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Dakota Gal, thanks for your suggestion about soaking the grains. That might just do the trick, although, I have to say when I had one more this morning – the crunchiness didn’t bother me anymore. I think this was a whole new experience for me to add a dry millet grains to baked goods and I didn’t expect the crunchiness. I now think it sort of goes but you need to realize this before you make up the batch so you can adjust the recipe for yourself.
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