Quinoa orange muffins
Lightly sweetened with powdered sugar, infused with loads of dry fruits and fresh juice, then mingled with quinoa flour and multigrain wheat flour makes it a perfect healthy snack. This recipe yields 15 muffins.
Quick tips for making quinoa flour
1. Incase 'quinoa' is not pre-rinsed then rinse quinoa with water and sun-dry it completely. Then dry roast it in a wok. Let it cool. Grind it. Quinoa flour is ready.
- If quinoa is pre-rinsed then dry roast it and let it cool. Grind it to a fine powder. Quinoa flour is ready.
2. For flax egg mix 1 tbsp Flax seed powder + 3 tbsp water. Mix in a small bowl and allow to sit for 10 minutes.
Dry ingredients
1 cup quinoa flour
1 cup multi-grain wheat flour
1/2 cup powder sugar
1-1/2 baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
Pinch salt
Wet ingredients -
1/3 cup cooking oil
1 Flax egg
1/4 tsp orange zest (optional)
1/3 cup orange juice
3/4 cup milk
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp white vinegar
Other ingredients -
1/2 cup + 2 tbsp mixed dry fruits finely chopped
Method -
1. In a mixing bowl add dry ingredients quinoa flour, wheat flour, powder sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt. Mix well and keep aside.
2. In small bowl add 1 tbsp Flax seed powder + 3 tbsp water. Mix in a small bowl and allow to sit for 10 minutes. Egg replacer is ready.
3. In another bowl add wet ingredients cooking oil, flax egg, orange juice, orange zest and mix well. Add milk, honey, white vinegar and mix well.
4. Mix milk orange juice mixture with quinoa wheat flour mixture. Mixture will be thick in consistency.
5. Add finely chopped dry fruits.
6. Mix well.
7. Add batter in greased silicone molds. Top it with finely chopped dry fruits.
8. Preheat oven at 180°C for 10 minutes. Place muffin molds in preheated oven and bake at 180°C for 20 minutes. Check with toothpick.
9. Take out muffin molds and let it cool.
10. Take our quinoa orange muffins from the mould and place in the serving plate.
11. Quinoa orange muffins are ready to eat.
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