These gluten free and vegan banana oats spinach muffins are made from oats flour as a base, with banana and spinach to enhance the nutritional value and taste of the muffins. All my friends and family who tasted it absolutely loved the moist and tender muffins. They could not believe that these were gluten free and vegan.
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Healthy Spinach Muffin Snack for Kid's Breakfast or School Lunch
For kids, this is a great way to add some green spinach and banana into their diet without them knowing about it. These are good for a quick breakfast, snack or for school lunches. You can make a big batch of banana oats spinach muffins and freeze them. These are freezer friendly, just microwave for few seconds to make warm before serving.
Every school term, I bake a few batches of these green healthy beauties (banana oats spinach muffins). Each batch is good for the week. Easy to make, delicious and healthy snacks for my daughter's lunch boxes. As a busy mom it helps me to know my girls are eating well at school to ensure optimal learning experiences.
Egg-less and Gluten Free Spinach Muffin Recipe
If you ever had to let go of tasty muffins or cakes due to egg or gluten, this recipe is also for you. Oats flour is considered safe to consume for those with gluten allergies or gluten intolerance. Due to its high fiber content, oats flour reduces the heart disease risk, lowers cholesterol, helps diabetics and decreases blood pressure. Lastly, Oats are rich in wide variety of minerals and vitamins. They make you feel full for longer.
Spinach Muffins made from all Natural Ingredients
Most recipes for gluten free muffins simply use the gluten-free baking pre-mix flours available in the market, which does not necessarily give me the comfort of knowing what is in there. This particular recipe for gluten free, vegan muffins uses all natural ingredients and is easy to make with total prep and cook time of 30 mins.
Vegan & Gluten-free Muffin Ingredients:
The green muffins are ideal swap for other muffins which are full of sugar and fats. This is a recipe that has family and friends always asking for more! Give it a try, you will be delighted with the taste and will have a healthy snack recipe to add to your collection.
Recipe
Banana Oats Spinach Muffin - Gluten Free Vegan Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
Dry ingredients:
- 1 cup Oats flour If you don't have oats flour, take the same amount of steel cut or rolled oats and grind them in a grinder
- ¼ cup Almond flour
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon Baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
Wet ingredients:
- ⅓ cup Almond Milk
- ⅓ cup Maple syrup or sweetener of your choice
- 1 Banana 1 medium or ¾ big or 1.5 small
- 100 g Spinach
- 2 tablespoon Oil I used avocado
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
Topping:
- ¼ cup Chocolate chips
- ¼ cup Walnuts Chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350oF, and line a muffin pan with paper liners (or use silicone muffin cups sprayed with cooking spray).
- TIP: To make it easy to remove liner from muffins, without sticking, apply some oil to the liners using an oil brush.
- I used rolled oats and ground them in a grinder.
- Sieve the almond flour before combining with other ingredients as it tends to form lumps. Combine all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
- Blend the wet ingredients in a blender or food processor until completely pureed.
- Pour the puree into the dry ingredient bowl, and fold together gently until just combined. (Do not over-mix.)
- Spoon the batter into the muffin pan, sprinkle some chocolate chips or chopped walnuts on top.
- Bake for 18-22 minutes, or until the muffins are firm to the touch on top, but not quite browning.
- Cool most or all of the way before serving.
Notes
Ingredient options based on dietary restrictions:
- Nut free Recipe – If want to make this nut-free, replace Almond flour with same quantity of oats flour. Skip the walnut topping.
- Non-vegan Recipe – For non-vegan version, you can use regular milk.
Enjoy with your friends and family the goodness of these muffins with the health benefits of oats, nuts, spinach and banana.
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- Serving Tray in featured image- Exact same design in no longer available, but similar product.
- Table Napkins
- Milk serving bottles in featured image
- Milk pitcher in featured image
Swati says
HI, i loved the recipe and want to make it for my son, how much is 100g spinach in cups ?
Thanks
Swati
Rupali Agarwal says
100 grams of raw spinach is equivalent to 1 cup.
Scarlet says
I love this spinach muffin recipe. They taste great and they look pretty too! The pressed in toppings are fun idea.
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Iris Koller says
Looks yummy! Have you tried subbing some or all of the oil for applesauce or more mashed banana?
Rupali Agarwal says
Hello Iris, no I have not tried using Apple sauce in this recipe. But I have tried reducing oil by half, which worked for me at home but I not sure if I’ll put that on blog as everyone is looking for perfect ones and you do compromise with texture.
Rima says
This is such a great recipe. And very flexible too. I have tried with and without cocoa powder, all kinds of nuts, and it’s always a hit. Only regret is that even a double batch doesn’t last a week.. gets consumed quick!
Rupali Agarwal says
Thank you for trying this recipe Rima! I am so glad that it worked out for you. Thank you for taking out time and writing this feedback as well. Feedbacks are really very important to me and for my blog!!! Hope you try few other recipes as well.
Thank you
Rupali
Rimple says
1 Can we use all purpose flour instead of oats flour?
2 can we use normal sugar instead of maple syrup or brown sugar?
Reason is being that I love this recipe n give it a try.
Plz reply me soon ...
Rupali Agarwal says
Yes you can use regular flour and regular sugar in this recipe. But then the quantity of liquid needs to be adjusted as well, because all different flours absorb liquid differently. Batter should not be very thin or thick otherwise they would not rise properly. Regarding sugar, maple syrup is three times more sweeter than sugar. So the sugar quantity would also be needed some adjustments. In sort that would be a total new recipe with new ingredients quantity.
Divya says
I made this, it came out healthy, needed more sweetness, I had added 3 spoons demerrera sugar on top of maple syrup. The costco maple syrup is mildly sweet. Will try recipe again with fine oats powder. Thanks for the wonderful recipe
Rupali Agarwal says
Hello Divya, yes they are mildly sweet not heavy on sweetness level. Others factors add up to the sweetness level
1. How sweet bananas are?
2. As you mentioned that the maple syrup you used was mildly sweet
3. How much sweetness you prefer
We are family of where we prefer mildly sweet food not heavy sweetness.
Do give it a try one more time with more sweeter maple syrup and see if that works out for your sweetness level.
Thank you for sharing your experience!
Hope next time they come out to your taste.
Rupali
Priya Kulkarni says
Thank you so much Rupali for this recipe. It turned out so delicious. Today I sent it for my boy’s lunch box and they just loved it. I added organic sugar instead of maple syrup. This is going to be in my fav list hence forth??
Rupali Agarwal says
Thank you for trying this recipe and I am so glad that it worked out for you. Thank you for taking out time and writing this feedback as well. Feedbacks are really very important to me. Hope you try few other recipes as well.
Thank you
Rupali
Indu says
Hi Rupali,
Finally made these wonderful muffins, they came out so good everyone in the family loved them. My husband is so surprised that the cupcakes are made with spinach and tasted delicious. Really happy to cook this healthy and tasty recipe for my son. Thanks!! Wanted to share the pic as well, I think I don't have option for it.
Indu says
Hi Rupali, Love your presentation and recipes that were made in a healthier way. Wanted to try this recipe, but when I check baking soda link it takes me to baking powder, could you update the link. And can I switch maple syrup with organic or brown sugar. Please post more baking recipes as wanted to try them for my son who loves cakes and cupcakes.
Rupali Agarwal says
Hello Indu,
First of all thank you so much for visiting my blog and liking it. Second yes you can substitute brown sugar in the recipe. First try substituting little more than half of the maple syrup quantity and see if muffins come out enough sweet. Lastly thank you for bringing the glitch regarding baking soda in my notice. I’ll fix it.
Thank you ?
Rupali
Richa Rana says
I tried them without spinach and with spinach and they best breakfast option for everyone❤️
Rupali Agarwal says
Thanks Richa for trying them, liking them and leaving your review ?
Imon says
Tried them today morning. Amazing texture and taste. Subbed Maple syrup for Honey and eyeballed the Spinach as I only had frozen (put in 1 cup plus a handful).
I am a silent member of Bento moms as well. It’s amazing how your recipes toe the line between healthy and tasty. As a full time working outside mom, incredibly helpful to have such recipes on hand!!!!
Rupali Agarwal says
Thank you for trying and leaving a positive comment ? I am so glad that you loved the recipe. Being a mom always experimenting to add some healthy factors in my recipes. If you happen to try more recipes, would love to hear your feedback. Keep cooking ?
Ambereen says
Do you steam the spinach before adding it to the rest of the wet ingredients and blending it? Also would you recommend using bagged small leaf baby spinach for this or would this even work with regular fresh bunch of spinach? Thanks
Rupali Agarwal says
Hey Ambereen, Any type of fresh spinach would work, just make sure the quantity is as per recipe. No need to steam the spinach before adding. Thanks - Rupali