This is my go to low fat muffin. I went through a period of a year where I made a batch every week and enjoyed a muffin every morning on the commute to work.
Low Fat Healthy Fruit and Oatmeal Muffins
This is my go to low fat muffin. I went through a period of a year where I made a batch every week and enjoyed a muffin every morning on the commute to work.
Servings 12 large muffins
Ingredients
- 2 cups large flake oats
- 2 cups milk you can also use soy or almond milk
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 tbsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 cup sugar substitute
- 1 cup applesauce*, unsweetened my recipe link below
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup mixed berries fresh or frozen
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 F. Prepare 12 muffin tins with oil or cooking spray
- Place oats in a small bowl, pour in milk.
- Let sit at room temperature until the milk is absorbed into oats, about a ½ hour.
- In a large bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and sugar. Stir in oat/buttermilk mixture, applesauce and eggs, and mix well.
- Add your fruit. I keep frozen berries on hand in my freezer. Blueberries work well, but if you have the mixed variety with larger berries (i.e. strawberries), cut them into smaller pieces. I find that using frozen fruit adds a bit more moisture into the muffins as the fruit thaws while baking.
- Pour into muffin tins. Chef’s tip: use a large 1/3 cup ice cream scoop which is fast, and gives you consistent measurement.
- Bake for 30 - 40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the muffin comes out clean.
- You can freeze extras and pull out when you need.
Notes
*if you don't happen to have any applesauce, try making a puree from canned peaches or other fruit, preferably unsweetened. I have also substituted with Greek yogurt with a little added milk and they turned out great. Greek yogurt gives you a dose of protein.
Easy Peasy UnSweetened Apple Sauce
Don't buy applesauce when you can easily make your own unsweetened version which you can easily freeze. Shopping for discounted bruised apples at your grocer makes this a very economical solution. Use applesauce to replace oil and butter in your baking to make desserts heart healthy.
Servings 6 cups
Ingredients
- 3 pounds apples
- 2 large cinnamon sticks
- 1 medium lemon juiced (optional)
- 1/4 cup water
Instructions
- Peel, core and chop all the apples.Put the apples into a large stock pot or dutch oven. Add about a 1/4 cup of water into the pot to prevent burning. Add the cinnamon sticks, lemon juice.
- Use low-medium heat on your stove and reduce the apples down to what looks like applesauce. It should take about an hour.
- Mrs. Patmore would have used a potato masher to finish the sauce to break up any large lumps. Today you are permitted to the modern day version called an an immersion blender or to put the sauce through a blender.
- I keep one container in the fridge and freeze the excess in Ziploc containers. It will keep in the fridge for a couple months, in the freezer up to a year.
