Dinner Muffins
When I saw the polenta (yellow corn meal) in the shop, I thought it was a good idea to buy it, thinking I would make some croquettes with a tomato based sauce! 🙂 That was a little while few weeks ago and it was still sitting there unopened along with the white maize meal (they are different products)! So, when Ronit of Tasty Eats posted her corn muffin recipe I just had to have a little play and DEGF (Dairy. Egg. Gluten. Free) it! 🙂 I tried to follow her recipe but you’ve probably realised now that ‘recipes’ and ‘following’ are abstract concepts to me! 😛 🙂 Anyway, I made a Life Diet Health version of the light fluffy crumbly flavoursome muffins 🙂 These are good! Real good! My son even thought they were ‘real’ as opposed to ‘free from’ and told me to write on my blog how amazing these are (both he and my husband ate four!) So try them for yourselves 🙂 Oh, and please bear with me over the next few days with my posts… they might be a bit different as I’ll be out and about as it’s the school holidays! 😛 🙂
Gather
- 10g chia seeds
- 50ml cold water
- 150g polenta (course yellow cornmeal)
- 75g porridge oats (GF if required)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (I used pink Himalayan)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon coconut sugar
- 240ml unsweetened carton coconut milk
- 50ml coconut oil melted
- 70g sweetcorn (I used frozen)
- 1/2 red chilli deseeded and finely sliced
- 15g fresh spinach
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper (I used freshly ground)
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- Choice of fillings – small pieces of vegetarian sausage, a cube of cheese (vegan), cashew cheese (this is what I put in mine), or just leave them as wholesome muffins! (we left some plain too).
Prepare
- Mix the chia with the water and leave to rest.
- Put the polenta in a large bowl, blitz the oats into a flour and mix altogether with the salt, baking powder and sugar.
© Life Diet Health 2015
© Life Diet Health 2015 - Mix the milk with the coconut oil and chia mix.
- Tip the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and combine thoroughly.
- Add the sweetcorn, chilli and spinach.
© Life Diet Health 2015Sprinkle with black pepper and stir everything together.
© Life Diet Health 2015 - Put spoonful’s into the base of the muffin cases (or greased tins) and add your choice of filling to the centre
© Life Diet Health 2015before topping the muffin case up with more batter.
- Bake at Gas Mark 6 (400f / 200c) for 35-40 minutes until golden brown.
- Cool on a wire rack before peeling the cases off (otherwise they will stick).
- Enjoy!
Serve & Store
- Serve as part of a main meal with fresh salad or vegetables (we had raw courgetti and tomato & cucumber salad)
- Add some extra protein such as sizzling tofu or quick chick peas.
- Eat with soup instead of having traditional bread.
- Have as a tasty after school snack.
- Store (if there’s any left) in an airtight container for 2-3 days.
