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.
Healthy 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 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 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.
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.
Green Muffins
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. Let me know what you think in the comment section below. Have a great day and come back to visit my page soon!
Vegan & Gluten-free Muffin Ingredients:
Dry Ingredients:
- Oats flour– 1 cup (If you don’t have oats flour, take the same amount of steel cut or rolled oats and grind them in a grinder)
- Almond flour – 1/4 cup
- Cinnamon powder– 1 tsp
- Baking powder – 1 tsp
- Baking soda – 1/4 tsp
- Salt – 1/4 tsp
Wet Ingredients:
- Almond Milk – 1/3 cup
- Maple syrup– 1/4 cup (or sweetener of your choice)
- Banana – 1 medium or 3/4 big or 1.5 small
- Spinach – 3.5 oz/ 100 gms
- Oil – 1/4 cup (I used avocado oil)
- Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
For Topping:
- Chocolate chips – 1/4 cup
- Walnuts – 1/4 cup chopped
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.
Banana Oats Spinach Muffin Recipe:
- 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 brown, or do a toothpick check if the muffins are baked from the center or not. Toothpick should come out clean if the muffins are done.
- Cool most or all of the way before serving.
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
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