Nothing beats a homemade muffin, hot from the oven and slathered with butter..Heavenly! Aren’t they? These healthy, moist, super wholesome muffins make a perfect breakfast or snacking. Great for kids and adults who have very specific dietary. What’s special about this recipe is it’s made with almond meal along with apple sauce instead of oil or butter and it’s fully packed with protine.
Almond meal, which has the same nutritional value as raw almonds such as high in protein, vitamin E, as well as healthy monounsaturated fats. To know more about almonds health benefits read here. Almond meal is simply raw whole almonds with the skin still on (unblanched), that have been ground into a fine powder. You can always make your own or you can find them at most high end or specialty grocery stores. If you want to pack some extra nutritional punch into your baked goods then this recipe is perfect..U gotta try it!!
Recipe adopted from Epicurious on Bon Appétit magazine June 1991 edition and I modified the recipe based on my family’s taste bud.
Eggless Butterless Almond Meal Banana Nut Muffins Recipe
Makes : 15 muffins
Ingredients:
Almond Meal : 1 cup
All Purpose Flour : 1 cup
Banana : 2 medium, mashed
Baking Powder : 1 tsp
Baking Soda : 1 tsp
Salt : 1/2 tsp
Honey :1/4 cup or replace with light brown sugar
Milk : 1/2 cup
Apple Sauce : 1/3 cup /75g
Peacan Nuts : 1/2 cup (toasted, chopped) or can replace with macadamia nuts or walnuts.
How to Prepare Almond Meal :
1. Pour unsalted unbalanced almonds into a food processor or in a clean coffee grinder, and cover with the lid.
2. Hit the pulse button for several times until a medium-fine textured meal forms (consistency of corn meal). (Note : Be careful not to over-process or you’ll end up with almond butter).
3. Pour ground almond meal in a clean flour sifter and sift. Put any large chunks of almonds back into the coffee grinder or processor, process again until they are the desired texture, Sift remaining almond meal.
4. Place your almond meal in freezer-safe, airtight bags or containers and store in the freezer.
How to make Eggless Butterless Almond Banana Nut Muffins :
2. In a large bowl, sift and combine together almond meal, flour, baking powder,baking soda and salt.
3. In a separate bowl, combine mashed bananas, honey, apple sauce, milk and mix well.
4. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients (Note : Be careful not to over mix).
5. Fold in half of the chopped nuts into the batter.
6. Pour batter into greased muffin tins or paper muffin cups and sprinkle the remaining nuts on top of the muffins.
7. Bake for about 20-25 minutes, or until a tooth pick comes out clean.
8. Allow to cool before removing from muffin pan.
9. Enjoy as is or spread a layer of butter..Yum!
Happy Baking!
Sangeetha
You're welcome! I’m so glad to hear you and your family enjoyed these and that they turned out so well for you! Pear puree and splet flour, sounds healthy…. I'm sure it must have given an extra punch to the dish :-)Thanks for returning to leave a comment!
Cheers!
Sangeetha
I made these last night, minus the nuts, I used pear puree and spelt flour (wheat free) instead of normal flour. It tasted so nice. I also used half the required amount of sugar and they were still really nice. Thank you for sharing your recipe, my family loved it.
Hi Shifa, Thanks so much for being so kind and encouraging. I am so glad that you liked the recipes…Good luck!let me know how you feel.
Happy Cooking!
Sangeetha
Hi , I have just recently got hold your link . I must say Good job .
Will try your recipes from today, wish me luck and hope they turn out well.
Thanks everyone for stopping by and leaving kind words..do try this and let me know ur valuable feedback!
wow, these muffins are impressive!
Butterless and eggless- wow, that's too tempting!! Not to mention healthy! Bookmarked!
Adipoli, i love banan muffins for breakfast.this is awesome butterless and eggless alle, kidu kidu..
Delicious muffins,yummy yum…
Wow, eggless, butter less!!What more can I ask for 🙂 Lovely.
Wow, eggless, butter less!!What more can I ask for 🙂 Lovely.
woww.w… awesome yaar… vannam koottaathirikkan itharam recipe nallathaa…. i put on 4kg after starting blog. :)so its a good recipe for me:)
Yum n gud ….butter less is wonderful
Those muffins look super delicious dear n ofcourse guilt free too
Lovely yaar:)
Yeah,I agree with you.Even without eggs and butter they are perfect cuties to grab..I have already grabbed mine..haha
perfectly baked cute muffins.happy that is eggless too
first time here…..wow…u have such an awesome space and these muffins looks absolutely delicious…happy to follow u …do visit my blog sometimes whenever you hav time 🙂
Wow, eggless yet butterless..Cool muffins!
What a healthy n delicious recipe for muffins..looks so soft and yummy!
Healthy and delicious muffins.
ANd I forgot to mention no Butter! Doubly Awesome!
What a wonderful medley with no eggs, almond and bananas – bookmarked for trying – LOVE the recipe
Cannot believe muffins sans eggless and butterless. Beautiful texture and looks gorgeous.
perfect perfect muffins!!!looks very fluffy n soft!! njan try cheythu nokkam!
Soft and moist..looks so cute and yummy
Mouthwaterig Muffins
they look fab….they are perfect for a sweet tooth!
Smitha
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I am famished just looking at it!
Perfect looking soft muffins…
FunWidFud
Soft and perfect muffins, adipoli aayitundu.
delicious butterless muffins.. they look so soft.. gr8 job!!
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Cant believe they are butterless, marvellous looking muffins,soo cute and awesome!
Hmm …Looks so delicious..
yummy and spongy muffins look very tempting.
These look devine.
Hey Sangeetha, I lost hope of finding any butterless muffins, as most of them had butter. This one is perfect. They look so moist and so soft. yummmm…
Love it being eggless and butterless.. Sounds so lovely and healthy..
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wow, this is like my kind of recipe thanks for sharing
wow wow.. no egg no butter.. seriously?
I am gona try this..it looks perfect n yummy 🙂
US Masala
Delicious almond meal banana nut muffins, almond meal and banana makes the muffin super tasty.
Perfect, delicious muffins! Ee recipe kollamallo Sangi..Ethonnu try cheythal kollamenundu..
It was hard to believe these were butterless. Fab dear
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
so soft and so perfect…
I never thought without butter and eggs muffins can look so soft. This is going to be a big hit.