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| Whole Wheat Flour-Pumpkin Muffins |
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| Moist Pumpkin Muffins |
Muffins are great for breakfast
and accompaniment with evening tea. Give them some decoration and they serve as
healthy dessert also. I prefer using unrefined sugar or jaggery. Jaggery with
pumpkin blends very well and adds to the moist texture and dark color both of
which make the muffins very appealing. I used olive oil but because I wanted to
reduce the saturated fat content in muffins.
Since I used the muffin paper
bases without placing them in the muffin baking tray slots thus while baking
was on the paper base spread thus making the muffins look more like cupcakes,
nevertheless the denseness and the moistness was perfect.
Preparation Time: 20min
Baking Time: 20-30min
Servings:9 Muffins weighing 50 gm each
Nutritional Value/ Muffin: (Approximate values)
calories: 450
Carbohydrates: 20gm
Protein: 0.84gm
Cholesterol: 0
Fat: 8gm
Dietary fibers: 2gm
Vitamin A: 1133 I U
Vitamin C: 2mg
Vitamin E: 0.22mg
Vitamin K: 0.022mg
Folates: 2.6mcg
Riboflavin: 0.02mg
Niacin: 0.11mg
K: 50mg
Na: 8.1mg
Calcium: 2.2mg
Iron: 3mg
Carotenes and many other phyto-nutrients.
Ingredients Required For making
Pumpkin Muffins:
- 150 gm. Unbleached Whole Wheat
Flour
- 1 Teaspoon baking Powder
- 1/2Teaspoon baking Soda (Cooking
soda)
- 75 gm Organic Jaggery
- 250 gm. Ripe Pumpkin (unpeeled/ 200 gm Peeled)
- 1/4Teaspoon of Salt
- 1 Medium Size egg (My egg
weighed50 gm)
- 30 ml. Olive oil (I used extra
virgin)
For Muffin Spice:
- 1/4 Inch Piece of Nutmeg
- 2 Inches of Cinnamon stick)
- 2 Cloves
- 2 Green Cardamoms
- 1 Black Cardamom
- 15-20 Black Currents
- 2 Bay leafs
- 50 ml milk (I used low fat)
Directions For making Pumpkin
Muffins:
- Boil bay leafs in milk till milk
reduces to half. Cover it and allow to cool at room temperature.
- Pound
- Nutmeg
- Cinnamon
- Cardamoms
- Cloves to powder (It will be
slightly coarse)
- Stir this mixture and keep aside
for further use.
- Cut the black currants to two
halves and keep aside.
- Sieve flour, baking powder, baking
soda, salt and keep aside.
- Peel and cut the pumpkin.
- Boil it with as little water as
possible, till it becomes soft. If any juices are left do not drain it. Try to
cook on low heat till most of the juice in the pan dries but make sure the
pumpkin does not get burnt or become dry. Only extra juice has to be dried.
- Cool the cooked pumpkin and puree
it by pulsing it in a blender.
- Whisk
- Egg
- Jaggery
- Olive oil
- 10 m milk in which bay leafs were
boiled, using a hand blender, till the
mixture becomes uniform and smooth. It does not need to be fluffy.
- Add the pumpkin puree and whisk
for one minute.
- Add black currant pieces to the
mixture of flour and mix them nicely, so that the black currant pieces are
coated with flour.
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| Wet and Dry Mixture For Muffins |
- Add half of the flour mixture with
black currants to the wet mixture and whisk it to make a smooth paste.
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| After half Of The Dry Mixture Is Added |
- Add rest of the half flour mixture
and again whisk lightly to make a uniform and smooth batter.
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| Thickness of Final Batter |
- Do not whisk too much as we do not
want to incorporate too much air in it. Over whisking will be the cause of
muffins not rising.
- Add 10 ml of milk (room
temperature) and mix. The batter should be thicker than the cake batter.
- With a ladle scoop the batter in
pumpkin bases and bake at 170 degree centigrade for 15-20 min or till the skewer
comes out clean.
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Muffins Baking
- Enjoy the healthy-Whole wheat flour-Pumpkin Muffins with a hot cup of tea/coffee or fill them and top them with chocolate ganache and have it for dessert. Yummy
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| Whole Wheat Flour-Pumpkin-Jaggery Muffins |
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| Pumpkin Muffins |
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Tips;
- The baking time differs by 4-5
minutes depending upon the type of oven used. Thus after 15 minutes check for
the doneness of the cake. It should not take more than 20 minutes.
- Requirement of milk may change due
to the difference in the moisture content of pumpkin and the quality of wheat
flour. Since I Do not discard the chaff from the flour thus the milk content is
20 ml. Thus check for the thickness of batter before adding milk in last step.
- Make sure the batter is not like a
cake batter. Muffin batter is always thicker.
- If the egg is large then take only
half egg white.
Alternate Suggestions:
- Roasted nuts can be added to the
flour mixture along with the currants.
- I have tried to make puree of
pumpkin without removing the peeling. The puree was slightly grainy but I was
happy with the texture of Muffins made with it. Best part is not loss of
nutrients takes place if the peel is not removed.
- Jaggery can be replaced with Brown sugar (unrefined sugar).
